March 23, 2022 16:34 GMT
By RFE/RL
Photos from World War II highlight striking visual similarities with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
1.The bodies of Belgian civilians killed by the German
military during a Nazi counteroffensive into Luxembourg and Belgium in December
1944.
2.A Ukrainian policeman walks past the bodies of people
killed by shelling in Mariupol on March 15.
3.A building in Warsaw is hit with a giant German mortar
shell in August 1944.
4.An apartment building explodes after being hit by a shell
from a Russian tank in Mariupol on March 11.
5.A Russian woman weeps in front of her burning house during
the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union in 1943.
6.A woman cries as she stands in front of a house that caught
fire after being hit by shells in Irpin, near Kyiv, on March 4.
7. Japanese soldiers being helped by American troops after the
capture of a Japanese stronghold on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in an
undated photo from World War II.
8.A wounded Ukrainian fighter is helped to safety after a
firefight in the Kyiv region on March 10.
9.U.S. troops crossing the Doubs River in France in
1944.
10. Ukrainian servicemen cross a river next to a destroyed
bridge near the city of Irpin on March 13.
11. Anti-tank obstacles on the streets of Moscow as the Nazis
advance into the Soviet Union in October 1941.
12.Anti-tank obstacles in downtown Kyiv on March 11.
13.The wreckage of a German convoy during the Battle of Halbe
in Germany in April 1945.
14.People look at the gutted remains of Russian military
vehicles in Bucha, close to Kyiv, on March 1.
15.Ruined flats in Limehouse, East London, after a German V2
rocket landed nearby in March 1945.
16.A residential building that partially collapsed after
shelling in Kyiv on March 18.
17.A team of football players being trained in bayonet
fighting in Moscow in June 1943.
18.Civilians who volunteered to join the Ukrainian
Territorial Defense Forces during a training session in Odesa on March
18.
19.A German mother with her son after discovering her Berlin
house was destroyed during the war in January 1945.
20.Helen Yakubets cries with her 5-year-old son inside a
ballroom that has been converted to a temporary shelter in Suceava, Romania, on
March 20. The woman's husband and teenage son remain behind in Ukraine.
21.Civilians inside Moscow's Mayakovskaya subway station
during an air raid in 1941.
22.People shelter from shelling in a subway station in
Kharkiv on March 10.
23.A U.S. Marine surveys the aftermath of the American
bombardment of the Japanese town of Naha in the Okinawa prefecture in June
1945.
24. A Ukrainian serviceman picks his way through debris
inside the Retroville shopping mall after a Russian rocket attack on March
21.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-war-photos-mirror-world-war-2/31766845.html
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