Ceasefire on Eastern Front of WW1, Russian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers meeting across the barbed wire on the front line, December 1917 [1100 x 800]

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kgunnar

This really illustrates how stupid war is. These men have no reason to kill each other, but are made to do so for reasons that have nothing to do with them and just end up on one side or the other based on where they happen to be born.

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