Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

Soviet Soldier, 1939

Finnish soldiers take a dead, frozen Soviet soldier and pose him like a scarecrow as a way to ward off Soviet invasion. Although this happened rarely, there have been a few documented cases of this macabre psychological warfare tactic. Usually, both Russian and Finish soldiers had great resepct for the dead and allowed both parties to retrieve and bury them in peace.

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