Historical images - Images that made history

[Kari Kamiya]

Not sure if "historical", but let's count it as a historical Internet meme.

Ages are swapped for some reason.

 

[Raging Capybara]

BR doing dumb shit at WWII

The text means: "The snake is smoking". The BR army is known as the "smoking snakes", it's basically a motto.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

 

[Tiamat]

Laika (лайка), one of the first animals in space and to orbit the earth. She was a Moscow mongrel taken off the streets and trained by scientists for space travel. Unfortunately she died within orbit due to overheating and stress in a couple of hours. In 2008 they made a statue for her. Rest in Peace to Laika: a better friend to mankind than mankind was to her.

A monument to Sallie the Pitbull who protected a downed Union Soldier at the battle of Gettysburg. I unfortunately couldn't find an actual picture of her.

One of the earliest cat pictures ever taken.

 

[Tiamat]

Sorry to double post but i have some more photos.

A picture of earth from the Voyager 1.

The Eskimo Nebula

An Inuit family

A picture of a pug before humans decided to nerf the entire breed and smash its face in with a frying pan.

 

[Jewish Hitler]

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This is one of those 1930's lesbian parties, isn't it?

 

[Silence of the Troons]

This is one of those 1930's lesbian parties, isn't it?

It's from one of the first lesbian night-clubs called Le Monocle which opened in Paris in the 1920s. However, in the 1940s it had to close because a certain German guy decided to occupy Paris.

Here's the owner Lulu de Montparnasse

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

Seems lesbians back in the day were hotter than lesbians now...

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Seems lesbians back in the day were hotter than lesbians now...

It's mostly a matter of fashion (d)evolving over the years more than anything else. You don't see many heterosexual people dress like they did in the 20s-30s either

 

[Cool kitties club]

Leon Trotsky standing on a tank

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Crime photos of the Viña del Mar psychopaths, who were the last 2 men to be sentenced to death in Chile (16 years before the capital punishment laws were modified*). There was a third guy, Luis Gubler, who got accused of being behind the murders, but was released due to "lack of proof" (despite that, Gubler got constantly attacked by people that he ran his ass away from the country for a long period of time.). IIRC there's a footage of the execution, but it's currently held by chilean authorities.

Spoiler: NSFW

Spoiler: The exceptional duo. Also, execution pic.

Spoiler: Rage fuel ahead.

The serial killer duo were former police officers, and from August 1980 until November 1981 they committed 10 murders, 4 rapes (one of them in presence of the 2nd rape victim's 2-year-old daughter) and even violent robbery. Most of the victims were parents and even 2 survivors (a couple) requested the killers to be spared because the guy's wife was pregnant, but the assholes didn't believe him and had the "brilliant" idea to punch her in the stomach. Due to the attack, she had hematuria the next day and the couple's baby was born with skull deficiency.

Shortly after the crimes were committed, one of the killers confessed to a Corporal and both he and his accomplice got their asses arrested in 1982, were declared guilty and sentenced to death the next year. After Pinochet pulled the "fuck you" card instead of offering his presidential pardon, they were executed by a firing squad in 1985.

*= Even though it's abolished from civil justice in 2001, death penalty still applies to war crimes and crimes against humanity during wartime in Chile.

EDIT: Fixed some parts.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Wehrmacht soldier with a Panzerschreck, 1944:

Finnish soldier with a captured PTRD anti-tank rifle, 1944:

US Army MPs toasting their bread on a lava flow at Mt. Vesuvius.

Japanese soldiers with an impaled Chinese baby, Nanking 1937

Spoiler: NSFW

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Photos taken during the Great Depression.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

View attachment 627167The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.

I wish we still had classy, giant world fairs like this instead of the stupid futuristic showroom called "Expo" we have today.

I'd argue Chicagos biggest mistake was only rebuilding the statue but then I remember those buildings would have been graffitied and vandalized, perhaps even squatted in.

 

[Pop-Tart]

 

[SparklyFetuses]

An IJA soldier sharing a cigarette with a soviet POW during the battle of Khalkhin Gol, 1939.

2 german soldiers with a cat family.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

 

[W00K #17]

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Hollywood films the MGM Lion in 1928.

 

[Pop-Tart]

Forget the Jew. Keep an eye on the Eternal Nip. Around the Nip, give him the slip.

Sami peoples


Various political cartoons and propaganda posters.