File:Lviv 1939 Soviet Cavalry.jpg

Red Army cavalry in Lviv. 1939.


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 * Author: Mark Redkin (Марк Редькин, 1908 - 1987)

rationale for History of Lviv
This image of a significant historic value illustrates the city's falling under the Soviet control, the historic event crucial for the city and for the whole Ukraine, for the first time in history unified as the Ukrainian SSR. No free image of this event was found through a good-faith effort while making a new image would require a time machine, currently an impossibility.

The image was made by the author during the professional assignment of TASS, a legal entity of now defunct Soviet Union and the issue of the copyright ownership is difficult to determine. The image is of sufficiently low resolution to be useless for copying. Thus, the usage of this image while significantly adding the context for the article's reader does not and cannot interfere with anyone's potential profits.

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