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zippotato t1_jeh3b5g wrote

According to the photographer Yevgeny Khaldei, those were British Hurricanes of No.151 Wing RAF which operated from Vaenga-1 airfield near Murmansk for a short time in mid-late 1941.

The image itself is a collage of British Hurricanes, explosions, and a deer nicknamed Yasha which befriended Soviet soldiers during Operation Platinfuchs - German-Finnish assault on Murmansk.

The actual frame of Yasha used to produce the collage

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heelspider t1_jeh3a40 wrote

According to the Hardcore History podcast, the general public had a superstition that executioners were untouchable. As a result, executioner families could only marry other executioner families. After a few generations not only were they socially outcast from society, but also weird in that inbred kind of way.

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