Nearly 73 years after a racially fueled beating at the hands of a white police chief left a black WWII veteran blind, a South Carolina town is honoring his memory. (Feb. 11)
Uneasy relations between South Korea & Japan have suffered another blow. Tokyo is outraged at a court ruling, that awarded South Korean steel workers over $88,000 compensation for forced labour during the Second World War. Only one of the men is still alive. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9hiq
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Moscow is commemorating the victory over Nazi Germany in WWII with a fireworks display on Victory Day by illuminating several locations in Russia’s capital, including Red Square, Sparrow Hills, and Poklonnaya Hill.
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A presidential aide pushed away a decorated World War II veteran to make way for Vladimir Putin during Victory Day celebrations. The president then welcomed the man and accompanied him to Alexander Garden.
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This letter to the mother of a fallen Soviet soldier was never delivered, as it got lost in the maelstrom of WWII, only to surface in the US 70 years later.
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Our football fanatics fly into Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad – the site of World War II’s bloodiest battle. After engaging in a little agro-tourism, they take a night stroll along the city’s spectacular riverside promenade, where the fan zone for the 2018 FIFA World Cup will be. The next day, they check out the stunning new Volgograd Arena, which was specially built to harmonise with The Motherland Calls statue towering in the distance. On their final day, the friends check out the epic 85-metre monument to those who lost their lives defending the city
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Wreckage from the USS Lexington, a US aircraft carrier which sank during World War II, has been found in the Coral Sea, a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announces.
The president of the Polish Senate has called on Poles living abroad to denounce all manifestations of anti-Polish sentiment – in a letter sent to Polish embassies around the world. This comes in the wake of a controversial Holocaust law designed to prevent people from erroneously describing Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau as Polish, simply because they were set up on Polish soil.
It’s a time capsule passed over unknowingly each day by passengers at Paris’s Gare de l’Est train station: a bunker built between the First and Second World Wars hiding under a trap door. Every French train station has one of the secret shelters, which were meant to enable rail workers to continue to regulate train traffic during an attack from the air. The bunkers are all linked by a phone system, and hermetically sealed to protect against poison gas.
