Litwin
Platinum Member
When we see Nuremberg N2 for the commie - crimes?
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Love can often flourish in the most hopeless of situations.
And so it was for Aynalem and Genet who married each other in 1978 during the height of Ethiopia's brutal Red Terror.
The bloodshed began a year earlier, when Marxist leader Mengistu Haile Mariam took control of Ethiopia and launched a lethal campaign against his enemies.
Thousands of people died during his crackdown, with hundreds of thousands more forcibly resettled.
But this didn't stop Aynalem and Genet from exchanging their wedding vows in Sendafa, a small city just outside the capital, Addis Ababa.
Photos from this day have been compiled by the digital archive, Vintage Addis Ababa, to show how people carry on with life in exceptional circumstances."White wedding during the Red Terror
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Love can often flourish in the most hopeless of situations.
And so it was for Aynalem and Genet who married each other in 1978 during the height of Ethiopia's brutal Red Terror.
The bloodshed began a year earlier, when Marxist leader Mengistu Haile Mariam took control of Ethiopia and launched a lethal campaign against his enemies.
Thousands of people died during his crackdown, with hundreds of thousands more forcibly resettled.
But this didn't stop Aynalem and Genet from exchanging their wedding vows in Sendafa, a small city just outside the capital, Addis Ababa.
Photos from this day have been compiled by the digital archive, Vintage Addis Ababa, to show how people carry on with life in exceptional circumstances."White wedding during the Red Terror
