• Photos that Shook the World
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[QUOTE=Recurracy;37015406]nothing weirds me more than seeing these gasmasks all over the place in chernobyl/pripyat I mean, why are they there [/QUOTE] From what I've read, every school had gasmasks in the basements just in case, and vandals / looters have gone in after the disaster to loot the scrap metal, emptying the boxes onto the floor.
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[img]http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2011/12/2/14/enhanced-buzz-27468-1322852673-33.jpg[/img] Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in 9/11, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/3dCc1.jpg[/img] 334 ASC The fire nation attacks and world turns to the avatar, he is nowhere in sight, doom is imminent.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/5O1Ko.jpg[/IMG] the first dead to return from vietnam (a hard to find image, here featured on the cover of Husker Du's debut album) [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2F2Td.jpg[/IMG] "Hands" a photo of Uganda famine [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6cacY.jpg[/IMG] burning viet kong base [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nsC9t.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/RTlN7.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ZqxEh.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0CMRO.jpg[/IMG] (beheading) [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/s28Cb.jpg[/IMG] (Bayonet "practice") [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/4b4ZM.jpg[/IMG] (Dogs attack a man buried up to his head) [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kHX7s.jpg[/IMG] (More bayonet practice) [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ugWsM.jpg[/IMG] (Disposed corpses of raped women) [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PjYCd.jpg[/IMG] (Soldier holding a decapitated man's head) [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/SSfOI.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wxUKd.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/gggvg.jpg[/IMG] (rape victim, vagina impaled) [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/e9ooV.jpg[/IMG] Above images are collected from the Rape of Nanking, or Nanking/Nanjing Massacre, which occurred during the second sino-japanese war in 1937. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre[/url] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7jh1J.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ogyug.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/W6Cuo.png[/IMG] "One of the medical researchers involved with Unit 731 explained how vivisection was performed on people: “I was ordered to wash that person’s body with a deck brush before he or she was taken into the dissection room naked by a member of the special team,” he recalled. “The first time, I trembled. One team member was listening to the heartbeat with a stethoscope. One was standing holding a knife. The moment the stethoscope was removed from the ear, a knife went into the body. I did not know, but according to doctors, this timing was very important, because if the timing was wrong, we could get blood all over us, and then we could get infected.”" "Set up as a top-secret biological and chemical weapons facility during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War Two, Unit 731 has been referred to as the Asian Auschwitz. Through the practice of lethal human experimentation, the unit is thought to have been responsible for the death of up to 200,000 civilians and military personnel – the vast majority Chinese and Korean nationals, but also South East Asians, Pacific Islanders and Allied POWs. In the sprawling six kilometer-square complex in the city of Harbin (now part of Northeast China) those behind the sickening ‘research’ developed some of the most cruel and sadistic experiments ever to be conducted on human victims. These included vivisection, amputations, germ warfare tests, explosive weapons testing, and much more." [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731[/url]
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;37026123]WW2 Japanese beheadings, rape, experimentations, etc.[/QUOTE] The Japanese military were fucked up.
[quote] The women were often killed immediately after being raped, often through explicit mutilation[42] or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo,[43] or other objects into the vagina. Young children were not exempt from these atrocities, and were cut open to allow Japanese soldiers to rape them.[/quote] Reading about the Nanking Massacre. Horrible, just horrible.
[IMG]http://lifeasahuman.com/files/2011/05/508837-americans-celebrate-bin-laden-039-s-death-550x309.jpg[/IMG] People gathering at the white house after the Rumor of Osama bin Ladens death.
footage of victims of nanking [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeIxDezImGM[/media]
[IMG]http://www.gizmodo.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/steam.jpg[/IMG]
On the subject of nanking, theres an movie that tells the story pretty well, it's called "The city of life and death". It's worth watching.
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;37031388]footage of victims of nanking [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeIxDezImGM[/media][/QUOTE]Fuck me, just reading that thumbnail makes me not want to even watch that.
Chinese still hate the Japanese for what they did, even to this day.
[QUOTE=Disotrtion;37038484]Chinese still hate the Japanese for what they did, even to this day.[/QUOTE] can't really blame them.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;37038810]can't really blame them.[/QUOTE] Given that majority of those who committed those atrocities are dead and the rest are so elderly that they'll be the same by the end of the decade, there's no reason to hate a country for a war that it did 70 some years ago.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Crossingtherhine.jpg[/img] US Soldiers crossing the Rhine under enemy fire
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;37039656]US Soldiers crossing the Rhine under enemy fire[/QUOTE] Wow, those guys climbing onboard. They look terrified. I love it when photos capture emotions like this. It can tell us alot about history.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37039321]Given that majority of those who committed those atrocities are dead and the rest are so elderly that they'll be the same by the end of the decade, there's no reason to hate a country for a war that it did 70 some years ago.[/QUOTE] It's the same reason everyone still hates Germany.
[QUOTE=MightyMax;37040236]It's the same reason everyone still hates Germany.[/QUOTE] Everyone doesn't... I don't know anyone that hates Germany... Besides the obligatory WW2 joke when you meet a German
lighten dat mood bled init[video=youtube;8JqT8jUbWNA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JqT8jUbWNA[/video] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost" - Ninja101))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=MightyMax;37040236]It's the same reason everyone still hates Germany.[/QUOTE] Pretty much only Poland hates Germany, 21 Century countries on the other aren't that stupid.
Not really "world shaking" but this entire story involving James Holmes has been pretty popular throughout the US these past few weeks [QUOTE]On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. A gunman, dressed in tactical clothing, set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. The sole suspect is James Eagan Holmes, who was arrested outside the cinema minutes later.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-deadline/2012/07/20/Holmesx-wide-community.jpg[/IMG] Below: The door Holmes entered and then exited through after the attack [IMG]http://director.denverpost.com/p.php?a=JSUgMSI4bHFba35wfHZgVHZic2Z9bnhddG5mbnZ7aXJNJzg9QFtUKDs6MSsoODsyJiMzOSc6Lj4zJTAuJzc5JyItIyY7PzEmPjI%3D&m=1342819017[/IMG] Yes this is quite late btw It took me this long to view the rest of the thread
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37039321]Given that majority of those who committed those atrocities are dead and the rest are so elderly that they'll be the same by the end of the decade, there's no reason to hate a country for a war that it did 70 some years ago.[/QUOTE] True, My grandfather was a ranger in the pacific and my uncles have told me some stories from his service that would make you cry. I never understood his hatred for the japanese, even after the war, until I heard his stories. I got a few of his photos, would anyone mind if I posted them here along with a few stories?
[img]http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4026/4689389655_ca248c9818_b.jpg[/img] 1st ID soldiers among the first wave taking cover behind hedgehogs on Omaha Beach. [editline]1st August 2012[/editline] [img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6078/6078646328_9b8668bc64_b.jpg[/img] Soviet political officer Alexey Yeremenko encouraging his men to counterattack German positions Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. He was killed seconds after this photo was taken. The subject was identified 23 years later by his wife and children when they saw this photo on a magazine commemorating the victory in Europe.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;37045187]True, My grandfather was a ranger in the pacific and my uncles have told me some stories from his service that would make you cry. I never understood his hatred for the japanese, even after the war, until I heard his stories. I got a few of his photos, would anyone mind if I posted them here along with a few stories?[/QUOTE] Please do so. I'd love to see the pictures and hear the stories.
Ok then, I'll scan the photos and will have them up by tomorrow.
Man I don't know why I keep coming back here, everytime I do I get mortified and find myself shaken for a few days after.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;37045187]True, My grandfather was a ranger in the pacific and my uncles have told me some stories from his service that would make you cry. I never understood his hatred for the japanese, even after the war, until I heard his stories. I got a few of his photos, would anyone mind if I posted them here along with a few stories?[/QUOTE] Reminds me of a veteran I met at The Shrine (War memorial in Melbourne, Aus). He was captured early in the war, and was in Japanese prison camps the whole war. He said the living conditions at the Japanese POW camps were "indescribable." He also said that at the POW camp he was in at the end of the war, he could see and feel the heat of the nuclear bombs on either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, can't remember which one it was. One funny thing he told me about, is that he and his mates would call one Japanese officer "Fucking Jap", and the officer thought they were saying good things about him. I'm glad I met him. [editline]2nd August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=CabooseRvB;37045252] [img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6078/6078646328_9b8668bc64_b.jpg[/img] Soviet political officer Alexey Yeremenko encouraging his men to counterattack German positions Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. He was killed seconds after this photo was taken. The subject was identified 23 years later by his wife and children when they saw this photo on a magazine commemorating the victory in Europe.[/QUOTE] I love this image so much. Shows the bravery of soldiers very well.
[IMG]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8007/7258710944_3954af61bc_b.jpg[/IMG] A helicopter pilot in Vietnam escaping his burning chopper.
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