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Border guard in East Germany, 1954
Published: September 20, 2012
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Germany, February, 1954: Beneath portraits of Comrades Lenin and Stalin, a guard at a neatly-kept (notice the curtains in the window) East German border station near Berlin watches out for trouble during a meeting of foreign ministers in the city.