Germans voted overwhelmingly to rename Königsberg to Kaliningrad in 1945.

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Germans vote with both hands for renaming Königsberg to Kaliningrad, 1945.

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The mass extermination of cats during the reign of Pope Gregory IX contributed to an increase in the number of rats, which led to the spread of the bubonic plague, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of millions of people.

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Translate the text into English: A soldier next to a sign with a quote from Hitler: "Give me five years and you won't recognize Germany." Berlin. American occupation zone in Germany. 1945.

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Measurement of background radiation in the vicinity of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 1986.

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Soviet troops on the streets of Prague, August 1968.

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Friedcakes with Siberian Plague Bacilli

During World War II, Winston Churchill issued a memorandum calling for the use of chemical weapons and Siberian plague bacilli to attack German cities.

Churchill's proposal was only not supported out of fear that German troops would also retaliate by using poisonous substances.

In 1942, the British developed Operation Vegetarian. They planned to drop linseed-infected friedcakes onto German pastures from airplanes. German cows would eat these friedcakes, and their infected meat would cause millions of deaths among the civilian population from a Siberian plague epidemic. Britain prepared 5,000,000 friedcakes with plague bacilli - the lack of enough "bread" bombs prepared by the British army saved the Germans from complete extinction.

On the Scottish island of Gruinard, where Britain tested the effectiveness of the friedcakes, the Siberian plague spread so "successfully" that access to the island was strictly prohibited until 1990.

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"The Angry Patient" in San Diego, 1920s.

On the sign "Painless Dentist" the patient adds "Liar".

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Some of the 60,000 Chinese refugees, who illegally arrived in Hong Kong from China, are reaching out from a truck begging for food during their deportation back to China. May 28, 1962.

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A police officer on a Harley with an old-fashioned mobile detention camera, 1921.

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