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Mod note: Iconic or not, Sherdog has a strict policy about not showing nudity, gore, corpses etc.
Please keep that in mind. Also keep things on topic and don't spam the thread. Explanations of what the images are and why they are iconic is a great way to add substance to the posts.
There was a recent thread on iconic images in film and thought it would be cool to do one for political history. Let's try to keep this as civil as is possible.
My submissions:
Lenin Returns to Russia - Vladimir Lenin,1917, arrives in Petrograd from exile by the Russian autocracy
We Got Him - 2011 - US President Barack Obama and his cabinet watch the armed raid of a Pakistani compound believed to contain wanted jihadist Osama Bin Laden
Burning Monk - 1963 - Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc immolates himself in protest of the unpopular and authoritarian US puppet regime in South Vietnam and its persecution of Buddhists
The Fond Farewell - Richard Nixon, 1974, leaving White House for last time after resignation.
Face of Latin American Resistance - Ernesto Guevara, 1960, mourning victims of La Coubre explosion
Birth of the TV Era - 1960 - John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon contrast starkly in televised debate
Mission Accomplished - 2003 - President George W. Bush announced an accomplished mission in his invasion of Iraq. Troops would be actually withdrawn three presidential terms later in 2011.
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Japan's Europeanization - 1937 - A Chinese child weeps in the destruction of a Japanese bombing campaign
A New International Solidarity - 1960 - France's Nobel Prize Winner Jean-Paul Sartre and equally iconic companion Simone de Beauvoir meet with and provide support to members of the 26th of July Movement, now the provisional government of Cuba, signaling their support to their European fans to the dismay of the US government.
The Weight of Democracy - 2003 - American soldier Ivan Frederick snaps a photo of the unknown torture methods of the United States in Iraq
Return of the Bolivarian - 2002 - Hugo Chavez returns to the Venezuela presidential palace after being arrested and held hostage in a failed coup attempt that sparked widespread revolt
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Famine in Uganda - 1980 - Self explanatory, but not sure if political
American unrest - 2014 - Protester of police conduct in Ferguson, MO, casually and nonviolently eating some St. Louis-favorite Red Hot Riplets, throws back tear gas canister lobbed toward him by police.
Kids of Aleppo - 2016 - Syrian boy Omran Daqeesh shown shell-shocked in the back of an ambulance. There are at least 3 very moving pictures of children in the Syrian conflict, but this one was the most famous and least upsetting.
First Couple - January 1, 2009 - Barack Obama and his wife, now-First Lady Michelle Obama celebrating the first day of his presidency at their first Inaugural Ball.
Please keep that in mind. Also keep things on topic and don't spam the thread. Explanations of what the images are and why they are iconic is a great way to add substance to the posts.
There was a recent thread on iconic images in film and thought it would be cool to do one for political history. Let's try to keep this as civil as is possible.
My submissions:
Lenin Returns to Russia - Vladimir Lenin,1917, arrives in Petrograd from exile by the Russian autocracy
We Got Him - 2011 - US President Barack Obama and his cabinet watch the armed raid of a Pakistani compound believed to contain wanted jihadist Osama Bin Laden
Burning Monk - 1963 - Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc immolates himself in protest of the unpopular and authoritarian US puppet regime in South Vietnam and its persecution of Buddhists
The Fond Farewell - Richard Nixon, 1974, leaving White House for last time after resignation.
Face of Latin American Resistance - Ernesto Guevara, 1960, mourning victims of La Coubre explosion
Birth of the TV Era - 1960 - John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon contrast starkly in televised debate
Mission Accomplished - 2003 - President George W. Bush announced an accomplished mission in his invasion of Iraq. Troops would be actually withdrawn three presidential terms later in 2011.
Japan's Europeanization - 1937 - A Chinese child weeps in the destruction of a Japanese bombing campaign
A New International Solidarity - 1960 - France's Nobel Prize Winner Jean-Paul Sartre and equally iconic companion Simone de Beauvoir meet with and provide support to members of the 26th of July Movement, now the provisional government of Cuba, signaling their support to their European fans to the dismay of the US government.
The Weight of Democracy - 2003 - American soldier Ivan Frederick snaps a photo of the unknown torture methods of the United States in Iraq
Return of the Bolivarian - 2002 - Hugo Chavez returns to the Venezuela presidential palace after being arrested and held hostage in a failed coup attempt that sparked widespread revolt
T
Famine in Uganda - 1980 - Self explanatory, but not sure if political
American unrest - 2014 - Protester of police conduct in Ferguson, MO, casually and nonviolently eating some St. Louis-favorite Red Hot Riplets, throws back tear gas canister lobbed toward him by police.
Kids of Aleppo - 2016 - Syrian boy Omran Daqeesh shown shell-shocked in the back of an ambulance. There are at least 3 very moving pictures of children in the Syrian conflict, but this one was the most famous and least upsetting.
First Couple - January 1, 2009 - Barack Obama and his wife, now-First Lady Michelle Obama celebrating the first day of his presidency at their first Inaugural Ball.
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