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  • The 1948 Italian Elections. The first elections of the Italian Republic between desires and dangers.
    • A child that begs for charity in the 1948 Naples
    • Togliatti in a curious sitting during a session of the Italian Constituent Assembly
    • Pietro Nenni
    • A scene from the famous movie “Don Camillo”
    • Pope Pious XII
    • The 1948 Italian Minister of the Home Affairs, Mario Scelba
    • Alcide De Gasperi
  • The Korean War. The American answer to the first communist menace in Far East.
    • U. S. Marines in action
    • American Jets takes off
    • General McArthur
    • General McArthur and President Truman
  • The Star of Nasser Utopia of the realization of a PanArab and PanIslamic Nation in the Egypt of Nasser.
    • Nasser during a public speech in 1969
    • A rare photo of Nasser during the adolescence.
    • Nasser during the visit in a public office.
    • English airplanes ready to the take off from the aircraft carrier “Ocean” of the allied attack taske force used in the operation “Musketeer” for the liberation of the Channel of Suez.
    • Castro meets Nasser
    • An image that shows a good-naturated Nasser
  • Indipendence of Indonesia The difficult life towards indipendence and democracy of the florid republic of the Asian South-East.
    • Some Australian soldiers captured by the Japanese are forced to sweep the streets of Gjakarta
    • An image of Sukarno in 1949
    • General Suharto in 1966
    • A fisherman of Bali who entirely survives with what he gets with his own strengths
    • A panoramic photo of the capital city Gjakarta with trafficked avenues and skyscrapers
  • A Woman and the Power Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, née Nehru, knew how to raise the Indian subcontinent to the role of great power, governing the most populous democracy of the world in the most difficult period of its history: that of the development.
    • A photo portrait of Indira Gandhi
    • A large Indian family of the Madras region
    • A Pakistan T-59 destroyed by Indian Air Force in the Great Indian Desert
    • A squad of Indian “Hunters" drops napalm bombs during an attack
    • Sikh rebels proudly show a paper with their claims
  • The sixties in the United States NEW!
    Social crisis and racial revolt in the U.S.A. The attempt of demolition of the traditional culture and the institutions gone out of the second world war.
    • Jack Kerouac
    • Demonstration against the Vietnam war in Washington on November 5, 1969.
    • Impressive mass of young spectators during the days of concert at Woodstock
    • Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Two winning black athletes at the Olympiads in Mexico City 1968, lift proudly a fist dressed with a black glove in sign of protest against the racial prejudices in the United States of the epoch.
    • A leader of the Black Panthers with his wife
    • Supporters of the leader black Carmichaels protest with vigor in Washington
  • Israel and the Yom Kippur Conflict. The Arab-Israeli war called of the Yom Kippur.
    • The carcass of a Syrian T-55 just before a previously destroyed Israeli Command
    • Israeli trucks on the road to Damask
    • Egyptian prisoners on a truck
    • The victorious Israeli soldiers exult
    • The Syrian leader Assad
    • Golda Meir and the Egyptian Sadat
  • Holocaust of an Ideology The decadence of the Soviet empire and the perspectives of the nations of the former oriental block.
    • Gorbacev during a speech in front of the United Nations Assembly
    • One of the most important collaborators of Gorbacev, Ligacev
    • The intense diplomatic activity between Gorbacev and Reagan set the bases for the end of the Cold War.
    • The meeting of Gorbacev with John Paul II
    • Soviet troops that are withdrawn under the snow from Kabul, capital of the Afghanistan
    • A demonstration organized by Solidarnosc during the 1986-87 agitations in the cities of Danzica and Stettin
    • Some bulldozers demolish a line of the Wall in Berlin under the eyes of an anxious crowd
    • Nicolae Ceausescu with his wife
    • A lean group of Lithuanian indipendentists
    • Boris Eltsin
    • Two Armenian soldiers are protected behind a fence in a garden of the Nagorno Karabach

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