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Bulgarian soldiers at the Ayaz Paşa Fort outside Adrianople after victory over Ottoman forces (1913).
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French Mother's Day poster (1942).
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'Terrorism stops here' — Rhodesian recruitment poster, 1977.
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A British test pilot flies a Ciervas C-30 autogyro. 1926.
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Wunder Des Segelfluges "The Wonders of Gliding" (1935).
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"Native land! Give us an epiphany: Who are we? What are we? What is our essence?
...For if we lose touch with our roots - the evil wind will blow our trail away." (Antonina Ivanovna Garmash-Lytvyn, 1940 - 2022)
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Turkish prisoners under Bulgarian guard at Florina (present day Northern Greece), Macedonia, during the Balkan Wars (1912).
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Turkish prisoners under Bulgarian guard at Florina (present day Northern Greece), Macedonia, during the Balkan Wars (1912).
A Bulgarian Orthodox priest performing last rites for the soldiers of the 10th and 23rd Regiment who fought to drive the Ottomans out of Adrianople during the Balkan wars.
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The invasion of Europe by Muslim migrants from the East remind Bulgarians of their 500 years of occupation by the Ottomans. A period of savage episodes of massacre and rape both during the fall and in the wars to remove them — as such, they feel strongly to never fall to a Muslim invasion again. In this dubbed video the "Vasil Levski" paramilitary volunteers patrol the Bulgarian border against the mass migrants who storm into Europe illegally.
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"Exactly 78 years ago, on June 1, 1945, on the outskirts of the Austrian city of Lienz, tens of thousands of Cossacks, together with their families, were forcibly handed over to Stalin's executioners for a monstrous massacre... The British swore to the Cossack commanders that everyone could stay and no one would be extradited. Some British officers hinted that there would be another war against the Soviets ahead and the Cossacks would once again become their allies... General Shkuro did not particularly trust their words and told the Cossacks, "Don't let go of your rifles, otherwise they will cut you down." Unfortunately, the Cossacks still believed Judas' word and surrendered their weapons.. The little daughter of a Cossack officer approached an armoured vehicle, she handed the British soldier a note in English. It read: "It's better to shoot my parents and me here, but don't turn us over to the Communists we fled from." The Briton's face changed, he turned pale, as did his colleagues." (Denis Romanov, 2023)
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1938. Camera in a revolver, for a report to the customer.
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The American Usurper print showing Uncle Sam with sword standing on the left with figures from American History and the U.S. Capitol behind him, and a man wearing a feathered crown and ermine robe, with one foot on the Declaration of Independence and the other about to step on the American Eagle, a crowd of followers, the "rabble," kneel behind him, and in the background, is a cathedral labeled "Church of State" (c. 1889).
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Anti-Cossack propaganda

From the Napoleonic wars onwards, Cossacks are depicted often as drunkards looting Europe or symbolic of Russia in general. Communists depicted Cossacks as imperial lackeys used to beat unarmed civilians. After the Second World War, the Soviets used fiction writers to write up genocide stories which got into films and literature. Underlying the propaganda was the fact that between the Bolshevik revolution and Stalin's regime over 70% of the Cossack population had been systematically wiped out in fights for independence, wars, starvation, gulags, displacement, execution and other means - their land was stolen.

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1 & 2. The film The Painted Bird (2019), based on the a fiction novel by Jerzy Kosiński (Józef Lewinkopf).
3. The Cossack whip film (1916).
4. Puck magazine (1904).
5. The 'overarmed and nervous Cossack', Japanese depiction (c. 1905).
6. A Catholic massacre in Lithuania (1893).
7. Time Magazine (1958).
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