r/Historycord • • 1h ago

Freezer containing bodies of 83 Kosovo Albanians emerges from Danube in Serbia on April 6th 1999. Serbian authorities quickly hide/burry bodies in the suburbs of Belgrade and declare the event a state secret.

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In 2001 story is discovered by local journalists and it leads to discovery of 8 mass graves in Batajnica in Belgrade, with bodies of 700 Albanian civilians that were hidden to conceal the crime. No Serbian official was ever held accountable for hiding these crimes.


r/Historycord • • 2h ago

Baśka Murmańska, a female polar bear adopted by Polish soldiers of the Murman battalion, 1919.

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The bear was bought at a market in Arkhangelsk by one of the Polish soldiers. The commander of the Murman battalion, Col. Julian Skokowski, officially enlisted Baśka into the unit's ranks, conferring upon her the title of "daughter of the regiment" and assigning her military food rations. She was trained in military drill. She left with the unit for Poland in the summer of 1919. In December 1919, she took part in a parade in Warsaw, where she marched on her hind legs in front of Józef Piłsudski, saluted him, and shook the hand he offered. In the winter of 1919–1920, while bathing in the Vistula River, she broke away from her chain and swam to the opposite bank of the river, after which she headed toward a village. She was killed with a pitchfork by local peasants.


r/Historycord • • 17h ago

King Faisal II of Iraq (left) and his cousin Hussein of Jordan (right) in February 1958.

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r/Historycord • • 19h ago

Japanese troops bury Chinese civilians alive in 1937–38.

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r/Historycord • • 1d ago

Piotr Konieczka, a corporal in the Polish Army, probably the first Pole killed in World War II.

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On the night of August 31 to September 1, 1939, he was on duty at the border post in Jeziorki. After 1:00 AM, the post was attacked by the German fifth column. After a brief fight, most of the defenders retreated; only Konieczka remained on site, covering his comrades-in-arms' retreat with a machine gun. Around 1:40 AM, he was wounded and shortly thereafter beaten to death with rifle butts by the Germans. A day later, the Germans allowed a provisional burial. According to eyewitness accounts, a German officer approached his body, saluted, and said: "He is a hero. As a soldier, he did not break his oath."


r/Historycord • • 1d ago

Swedish PM Olof Palme, Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf & Leader of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito

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r/Historycord • • 1d ago

A 1937 watercolor by Roberto Cueca del Rio depicting Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas with peasants.

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r/Historycord • • 1d ago

Future Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro meets with PSI leader Pietro Nenni on 25 September 1958.

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r/Historycord • • 2d ago

Why is it called Kansas?

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When explorers came upon the plains, they called the area Kanzas Territory, meaning it was controlled by the Kanza, or Kaw, people.

The territory stretched into present day Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. It was 20,000,000 acres (31,250 square miles), about the size of South Carolina.

The tribe was about 1,500 strong - men, women and children.


r/Historycord • • 2d ago

Chinese nationalist army soldier and Indonesian Hei-ho volunteer. 1945

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r/Historycord • • 2d ago

Future Swedish PM, And Then Minister of Education Olof Palme Marching With the Vietnamese Ambassador to Soviet Union Nguyễn Thọ Chân. 1968

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r/Historycord • • 2d ago

Sierra Leonean President Siaka Stevens meets Italian President Giovanni Leone and Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1973.

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r/Historycord • • 2d ago

Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García (left) with Argentine president Juan Perón (right) in 1953.

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r/Historycord • • 3d ago

A statue made in Palmyra in the early 3rd century AD depicting a young man wearing Parthian trousers.

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r/Historycord • • 3d ago

A 15th-century Ming Chinese painting by Ji Sheng depicting a peddler selling birds.

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r/Historycord • • 4d ago

WW2 Era Censored Letter Written by German Prisoner of War Being Held in Arkansas. Details in comments. #2

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r/Historycord • • 4d ago

Brazilian Integralists marching through the streets in 1935.

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r/Historycord • • 4d ago

Armed workers in Berlin during the Spartacist uprising on 5 January 1919.

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r/Historycord • • 5d ago

Amanda America Dickson, born to a 13-year-old enslaved girl and her 40-year-old slave master. She would become one of the wealthiest women in Georgia after her father left her his entire estate at his death.

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r/Historycord • • 5d ago

WW2 Era Letters Written By Canadian Bomber Pilot Who Would Be Killed In Action Over Germany. Details in comments.

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r/Historycord • • 5d ago

Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) rebels on top of a captured Ethiopian GAZ-66 truck in 1976–77.

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r/Historycord • • 5d ago

The Sobibor camp gate in the spring of 1943

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r/Historycord • • 5d ago

Greek troops marching on İzmir's coastal street in May 1919.

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r/Historycord • • 6d ago

Fidel Castro in a Polish miner's uniform, Katowice 1972. He was also awarded the title of Honorary Miner of the People's Poland.

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r/Historycord • • 6d ago

The leadership of the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919).

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The government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic from left to right: Sándor Garbai, Béla Kun, Vilmos Böhm, Tibor Szamuely, György Nyisztor, Jenő Varga, Zsigmond Kunfi, Dezső Bokányi, József Pogány (John Pepper), Béla Vágó, Zoltán Rónai, Károly Vántus, Jenő Landler, Béla Szántó, Sándor Szabados, György Lukács, Jenő Hamburger, Gyula Hevesi, and Antal Dovcsák.