December 22, 2025The ruins of Nikolayevsk after the massacre perpetrated by the Red Army under Yakov Tryapitsyn, June 1920. [1112×749]
December 22, 2025Union soldier William Johnson, 23, stands on the gallows moments before his execution for the attempted rape of the wife of a rebel soldier during the Siege of Petersburg. Roughly 500 soldiers were executed on both side during the American Civil War, most for desertion (Virginia, 1864) [1255 x 747].
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I remember this!