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Tom ward (narrates):
Four huge scaffolds

dominating a remote
Alaskan mountain.

These structures don't
look super technological,

they're like giant billboards.

But they were part
of what was in it's day

the most sophisticated
technology we had.

A war torn ruin left standing
in the shadow of North Korea.

If you went in to the building

you would quite
possibly come out in a box

and if you came out upright

you might come out
shattered beyond sanity.

A factory complex
in an idyllic valley

that is not quite what it seems.

You start to see clues

that this place might not
have been so friendly after all.

The big heavy metal
door on the rock face,

how are they trying to keep out

or what were they
trying to keep in?

A medieval castle that became
the playground of a vengeful killer.

So, either the bloody countess

was a stone cold mass
murderer of young girls

or she was a powerful
but innocent woman

framed by her
unscrupulous rivals.

Decaying relics.

Ruins of lost worlds.

Forged through years of
toil now haunted by the past.

Their secrets waiting
to be revealed.

Slovakia, 60 miles from
the capital Bratislava.

An imposing hilltop
structure was the scene

of one of the 17th
centuries bloodiest scandals.

Looking up on to the
hillside clearly man has made

it's Mark here in a very
fortified, defensive kind of way.

It doesn't seem big
enough to be a fort

and dare I say it's not
grand enough to be a place.

Two towers loom
over the grounds,

one leads in to a
three metre deep pit.

It's a hole in the ground,
it looks like a dungeon.

The other tower is reduced to
just one perilous standing wall.

This isn't just nature
has destroyed this,

there's been some kind
of deliberate effort too.

The perimeter walls lined
with Cannon battlements

suggest a violent past.

If you're expecting
uninvited guests

this is the perfect spot to be,

it looks like it's
ready for an attack.

The events that took place
here became folk law then legend.

A reminder that history
is written by the Victors.

In 1610 blood curdling screams
were echoing from the basement,

young women are
suffering unbearable torture

at the hands of a psychopath.

It was eight girls

who suffered this way.

Marcela bednarova grew
up hearing the terrible stories

surrounding this place.

The girls were humiliated...

And there was some psychological
and sexual torture as well.

They were waiting for
their destiny in shackles.

The girls were
made to stand naked

in a cold cellar for days.

The rumours surrounding this
place are extremely disturbing

and we don't know
exactly what happened here

but everyone who knows
something about this place

agrees that it was terrible.

This is cachtice castle,

built in the 13th century to defend
the border of the Hungarian empire,

for generations the
castle was traded

between warring noble families

until 1604

when countess Elizabeth
Bathory changed the castle

and the town of
cachtice forever.

When Elizabeth in her
early 40s as a widow

moved full time into the castle

she must have appeared
unbelievably glamorous

to the local villagers
with their hard lives,

she had the sort of
youthful glow about her.

Elizabeth inherited the castle
upon the death of her husband,

a member of the
powerful nadasdy family.

She inherited
all of this property

and suddenly she was the head
of a wealthy noble household.

Possibly one of the most
powerful single women

in Hungary at the time.

In a period when women were
largely treated as second class citizens.

She invited young
women into these rooms

to sweep the floors
and cook her meals.

In her 40s she's there
offering the school

basically for other
young noble women,

it wasn't uncommon, it
was a normal thing to do

to go and live
with another family

and learn how to housekeep,

how to prepare for
marriage and life ahead.

But the true cruelty of
the Hungarian nobility

was about to be exposed.

Rumours started to circulate,

the girls who went
to cachtice castle

didn't always come back.

On the 29 December 1610

soldiers stormed
through the castle gates

and searched the grounds.

When the soldiers looked around

they found one dead girl

then two girls were
reported injured

and almost dying with visible
marks of cruelty or violence.

One of them was already dead

but the others had
just enough life force

to point the
finger at her killer.

Elizabeth.

The young widow may have
been a woman in a man's world

but she also had a
reputation for barbarism.

It's said that she
physically hurt her students

for minor infractions

like folding the sheets
wrong or spilling water.

Even for just looking
at her the wrong way.

The punishments ranged
stories say everything from er,

just a slap around the
face to drawing blood

and then it got more
and more gruesome.

Supposedly she would prick
them with sewing needles.

She bit them until
she drew blood,

she smeared honey on them

and exposed them
to bees and ants.

Cut them with scissors.

Scald them with hot metal bars.

Leaving girls out in the
cold to freeze to death.

And one of her most notorious acts
happened inside the castles dungeon.

Elizabeth needed
her main house free

because she expected a
visit of her daughter, Anna.

So, she ordered the girls
to move up to the castle

to stay there during
the daughter's visit.

The girls were made to stand
naked in the cold cellar for days,

when they were let out some
of them could barely even walk.

And they were killed
very soon afterwards.

It's said that Elizabeth Bathory
killed up to 600 young girls,

she literally has a
guinness world record for it.

The rumours of her savagery go
all the way back to her childhood.

She came from a family
notorious for it's alcoholism,

incest and sexual deviancy.

When she was young she
suffered from terrible migraines

which her family diagnosed
as demonic possession.

It's said that she even bathed
in the blood of her victims.

That might explain
the youthful complexion.

The soldiers arrested Elizabeth.

She was tried and
banished to her castle tower

for the rest of her days.

The tyranny of the
bloody countess was over.

But not everything is as it
seems in this grim fairytale.

There's one thing that
doesn't quite add up here.

Out of an alleged

600 or more victims of Elizabeth

we haven't found a single
grave or a single skeleton.

Nothing.

The man who arrested
her and found all the bodies

just so happened to
be head of a rival house

in the neighbouring province
which is unreliable and suspicious.

Elizabeth was clever,
she was literate,

she could speak four languages
but she was also a woman,

she had a massive
target on her back.

Looking at this as a lawyer

despite concerns
over the evidence

I can't help but think

there was something
ghastly going on in that castle.

It's very rare that there's
any smoke without fire.

So, either Elizabeth Bathory

the bloody countess

was a stone cold mass
murderer of young girls.

Or she was a powerful

but innocent woman framed
by her unscrupulous rivals.

You may never know for sure.

The castle stood
for another 100 years

until it was sacked
in a rebellion.

What remains is open to tourists

seeking to learn about the
legend of Elizabeth Bathory.

In the remote
north west of Alaska

a cluster of constructions
loom over a barren landscape.

Only 150 miles from Russia

sit these curved steel monoliths
of the crest of anvil mountain.

There's not a tree,
there's not a barely a bush

and rising up on
the top of this hill

are these four huge structures

they almost look like some warped
Salvador dali idea of a billboard.

It's almost like they've left

a segment of a modern art museum

propped up by some
kind of scaffolding

right here in the
middle of nowhere.

Their simple form belies
their once crucial function.

Very top secret I
mean it was, it was high

er, you know high
security up there

because this was all
cutting edge technology.

When you think about
it for a second it's clear

it's some sort of
communication device

whether it's for radar or
microwaves or something

but it's not clear what exactly.

Richard beneville is the mayor
of the nearby town of nome

and this site holds a
particular resonance for him.

Sometimes I feel like it's
walking among the pyramids,

I'm very proud sometimes
to what mankind can do.

I feel a sense of pride, I
know that this site worked.

The roots of this facility

can be traced back
to the 19th century

when Alaska became
American property.

A time when Russian
and the us were allies.

At the time that the us
purchased Alaska from Russia

it was a very good investment,

I don't think anybody
anticipated that would,

that Russia would become
our biggest geopolitical foe.

In 1949, the Soviet
union shocked the world

when it detonated
it's first atomic bomb

at a test site in Kazakhstan,

a Soviet nuclear attack was
now a very real possibility.

In the 1950s the
nuclear arms race

between the Soviet union

and the United
States was ramping up.

Local resident Richard beneville
remembers this time well.

I knew every night I went to bed

that the planes
on the flight line

had the bombs in them 24/7

ready to go in about
a five minute notice.

That was the cold war
that this 18 year old kid.

The problem in Alaska

was how to communicate
an incoming threat

and respond accordingly.

If your radar detected

Soviet bombers on their way

to bomb america you'd want
to tell somebody right away.

And the problem here was that

all they had was old fashioned
copper wire telephone technology.

There's no roads
around most of the state,

there's no telegraph wires,
there's no telephone wires.

At one point from nome

they could only send one
telephone call at a time.

Huge distances made
communication difficult

even high frequency signals

would fizzle out

when the northern
lights appeared.

Telecommunications
functioned strictly by line of site

so the rapid
transmission of information

over long distances
was impossible.

A new communications
infrastructure was imperative

but what technology
could effectively deal

with this latest threat.

Alaska has a really
interesting place

in the history of the cold war

because it is so close to Russia

and it is so close
to the north pole.

At the end of world war two,

Alaska's defences were focused

on fighting a southern foe

not one that was coming
over the north pole.

If Soviet bombers
came over the horizon

there was no effective
warning system in place,

a solution was found with this.

White Alice.

A radio station

with an extensive air force
telecommunications network.

They were part of the do line,

the do line which
collected information

actually from the top
of Scotland all the way

across north Atlantic,
Iceland, Greenland, Canada,

keeping track, keeping a
radar net over the north pole.

Their name is widely
believed to be an acronym.

White for the snow
covered location

and Alice which stands

for Alaska integrated
communication and electronics.

Typical white Alice site
consists of four dishes

grouped in pairs to
receive and transmit signals

to and from
neighbouring stations.

Since they couldn't
just send radio signal

in a straight line
to the next receiver

it was too far away,

they would aim it up
at an angle in to the sky

where would bounce off
a layer of the atmosphere,

it would bounce
off the troposphere

and then come back down
hundreds of miles away

and be received
at the other end.

The system is called forward
propagating tropospheric scatter.

Tropospheric scattering

has many advantages
over other technologies

because bouncing
signals off the atmosphere

means that the hubs don't
need a clear line of sight

which is particularly advantageous
in mountainous regions of Alaska.

This process meant
that white Alice sites

could be 200 miles apart,

they could also handle
multiple phone calls

at the same time

and crucially for the
military they were secure.

A transmission
beamed from one spot

could only be received
at another precise spot

and that made it virtually
impossible to intercept.

This network of linked
sites would be crucial

against the various
cold war threats.

Across northern Alaska

there were a whole
range of stations

designed to detect
first incoming bombers

and then later as missiles
became a bigger threat

radar systems er, to detect

whether missiles
had been launched

and were headed to
the heartland of the us.

The 31 original white Alice
sites took three years to build...

With the first station
operational in 1956.

But constructing these vast
antennas was no easy task.

We're about 700 miles
to the nearest highway,

we're about 750
miles from Anchorage

so we are way out there

right where the baring strait
and Russia almost meet.

So, to build these installations

they had to not
just fly in equipment,

they used dog sleds,

they were really out there
in primitive brutal conditions.

The enemy was time and weather,

hundreds of tonnes of metal
had to be bought in by air.

This was a steel Jigsaw puzzle

that had to be assembled
quickly and effectively

and had to be strong enough

to withstand the extremes
of Alaskan storms.

It was the latest and
most sophisticated

telecommunications
technology in the world.

The us even connected
Hawaii and the Philippines

through the pacific
scatter system

but the biggest impact
was on Alaska itself.

It unified the region in ways

that no other technology
could have done.

However construction
was extremely expensive.

The total bill came to a
staggering $300 million.

Initially they thought
they needed six people

and 25 kilowatts
to operate the site

but actually in the end
they needed 20 people

and about 120 to 180
kilowatts of electrical power

just to operate the system.

Before white Alice
was even complete

a new technology arrived
which would come to replace it.

It's a bit ironic

that by the time white Alice

was becoming
operational in 1957-1958

sputnik was up in the sky.

Satellite communications came in

and that wound up being a
much more reliable system

that didn't depend on
these remote installations

of antennas you know, manned
by these small groups of guys

freezing their butts
off on the tundra,

you know for year
in and year out.

Was it successful?

I think you'd have to say yes.

Because it, it has
allowed us to get

to where we are
today which is a lot.

White Alice remained in use

until the 1970s as a
civilian phone network.

And in some cases
due to their security

the military still uses tropos
scattering networks even today.

At the northern most
limits of South Korea

is a troubled region

littered with the ruins
of a conflicted past.

The demilitarised zone

between North Korea and
South Korea is actively dangerous.

This is not some historic relic,

there is almost a war going on

across this piece
of ground today.

From up on top of a hill
you can see in to North Korea

and this place is right
in the shadow of that.

Gutted and scared
this shell of a structure

has a clear story to tell.

The building's not just derelict,
it's been completely devastated.

You can see that the only
thing that's holding it in place

is these modern
reinforcement bars.

This isn't a place that
was slowly left to decay,

it feels like this was a target.

Just south of the
demilitarised zone

between north and South Korea

a devastated structure
dominates it's surroundings.

Yet it appears
to be out of place.

Someone has taken

some stalinist architecture

and dropped it right
here on the korean border

and because of that
stalinist architecture

you can tell

that this is

a communist North
Korean edifice.

Why is it ruined?

And why is it here
in South Korea?

Following years of
Japanese occupation

at the end of the
second world war,

authority over the korean
peninsula was split in two.

Military the Soviets
grabbed the northern half

and the Americans
who were in the process

of occupying Japan
grabbed the southern half.

They divided the country
up on the 38th parallel,

a line of latitude

and this created a very crude

north south border on the map.

This building sits in
the area of cheorwon.

Positioned just 40 miles
above that line of demarcation.

Local resident mr Kim
grew up in this area,

his family having
lived through the unrest

that soon followed the
construction of this building.

(Speaks korean)

Translation: "This is
the labour party building,

"it's actually the cheorwon
county branch of the labour party.

"When this area came
under communist rule in 1946

"this was built as
the local headquarters

"for the communist government."

Dominating the area,

this structure clearly
set out the parties aim

of commanding
over the local people.

"Now, this is a
three storey building

"while all the other
buildings in the area

"were single storey
wooden structures.

"And it sits on top
of a high platform,

"the building was actually
built upon a raised level

"so it must have looked very
daunting for the locals here.

"This building epitomised
the authority of communism."

But the north weren't
only interested

in ruling over the
local population

they had ambitious
plans for this place.

"Cheorwon was the largest
city near to the 38th parallel

"that's why they built the
party headquarters here.

"North Korea ruled the
surrounding area from here

"but they also used it to help

"prepare for the
attack on the south."

Their ultimate aim

was to take control of the
entire korean peninsula.

Cheorwon was an
incredibly tense border town

for the simple reason

that it was a staging post
for the North Korean troops

so here there would have been
massed a vast number of forces

and that made this
a very tense place.

Backed by Stalin

at the head of this North
Korean communist regime

was Kim El sun.

Kim El sun tries to replicate

Stalin's dictatorship
in North Korea

and that means that the
North Korean dictatorship

is centralised, is brutal

and is ready to
repress the individual

in the interests of the
state and the ruling party.

With the arrival of Kim El sun

who served in the
Soviet army in the war

things really began to change

and the peninsula went on
to effectively a war footing.

For those living in cheorwon

having the local party
headquarters on their doorstep

could be a terrifying prospect.

And old rumours about
what happened inside

still persist to this day.

"Back then for the people here
this was a very mysterious place.

"It's said that those people
who opposed communism

"or the rules of the land
were dragged in here

"to be tortured and killed.

"But the problem we
face looking at this today

"is that the people
who were responsible

"for the atrocities here
have all returned to the north.

"And there are no records
left to confirm these stories."

Outside of this building

Kim El sun soon
saw an opportunity

to assert his dominance
over the whole peninsula.

In 1950 on the 25th of June

the North Korean army

rolls across the 38th parallel

knocks the South Korean
army almost out of the way.

The northerners blazed
their way down the peninsula

in the end cornering
the southern forces

in to just one small pocket.

The South Korean army,

the American occupation
force they're all in one town, in...

In the south.

It looks like it's all
over for South Korea.

With their backs
against the wall

and a communist
victory looking likely,

us forces led by
general mcarthur

set about turning the tables

with an invasion deep
behind enemy lines.

The other thing the
United States does,

the United States
internationalises the korean war.

The Americans get the UN
to come in on the American

and South Korean side

and they undo the successful
North Korean invasion of the south.

Quickly southern
forces regained control

and moved rapidly north.

Soon pushing past cheorwon

but for those held
prisoner here it was too late.

Nearby the ruins of a
water treatment facility

now stand as a marker

to how those individuals
met a tragic end.

(Speaks korean)

Translation: "So,
after the war the

"bodies of many
people were found here

"and this has become
a very harrowing place

"in cheorwon.

The North Korea leadership
were very concerned

that in their retreat

they did not want
enemies of the people

as they called them to survive.

"In cheorwon there are a
lot of scars left from the war

"but this is the place
where numerous prisoners

"and civilians were killed before
the communist army were driven out

"and fled the area.

"This is a heart breaking place

"which will never be forgotten
by the people of cheorwon.

The people they had
been holding prisoner

down in the building in town

were bought to this other
site where they were murdered.

In total around 300 people
were killed in this massacre.

With the war raging on
the destruction of cheorwon

crept ever closer

and as the largest
structure in the area

this building would soon
become a key target.

In 1950 as the southern
forces advanced

the old communist
party headquarters

became firmly fixed
in the crosshairs.

The violence of that time

is clearly written all
across what remains.

"These marks are from
the tracks of a us army tank

"which came up here
to destroy the building.

"I think destroying the
labour party building

"was intended as
a show of strength,

"this was the local headquarters
of the North Korean army

"who were the enemy."

While it remained standing

this structure and
the surrounding town

was soon facing an end game,

just a few months
after taking the area,

the southern forces
were being pushed back

out of cheorwon.

The one thing
that you can't allow

is this politically
important symbol

to fall in to enemy hands.

So, you burn the
place to the ground,

the whole town burns
except for one thing.

That building that
looms over the town.

In 1953, an armistice was signed

ending the fighting

and a new border was drawn up

just a few miles to the
north of this building.

The ruins now serve
as a reminder of the past

and a symbol of
hope for the future.

"We must not forget what
needs to be remembered.

"Also it's a crucial
task for the two Korea's

"as one people to reunify and
achieve prosperity together."

In the northern Czech Republic

just six miles from
the German border,

a rural scene hides

a sordid history.

Here is a lovely valley

with well maintained woodlands,

no doubt a clean
stream running through it

and pretty towns
at suitable intervals.

This is very much a Czech valley

with all the signs of
decades of happiness.

A complex of empty buildings
stands amongst the trees.

Rooms take up entire floors

and there are hundreds
of metal columns

keeping the ceilings up,

something very heavy used
to be kept on these floors.

These were once
grand efficient factories

of some kind and, and
now they're abandoned,

they're over grown.

Why would you build
something this expensive

and walk away from it?

Behind the buildings

are clues to a history

that the locals
would rather forget.

You can see the
remains of a camp

and you can see a big
chimney next to that camp

and that's never
going to be good news.

And at the centre
of it all is a gateway

that guards a terrible secret.

You arrive at this rock face

and you see this
huge metal door.

Hiding something
inside this rock face

and you wonder well that
looks like a lot of security.

What happened in
this remote outpost?

And what is behind
that big metal door?

In the 19th century a
building was put here

to take advantage of
a new wonder material.

Petr joza has explored
this site extensively.

(Speaks foreign language)

Translation: "We are in one of
the halls of company frans pridall,

"the building was
constructed in 1867

"as one of three in rabstejn
valley to produce cotton.

"In this building there
were 16,000 spindles,

"individual spinning machines
stood in between these pillars,

"it was one of the biggest
factories in this area."

This is rabstejn, janska

a factory that produced
cotton on an vast scale

but this was more
than a business,

it was the bread
basket of a community.

"There were several
generations working in this factory.

"The factory was hugely
beneficial for the local economy

"because the company used the money
they made to finance several things,

"they had schools
built in the area,

"had a chapel restored

"and that's all thanks to the
profit from these factories."

But the factories
benign appearance

is betrayed by an ominous
feature within it's grounds.

Then you see the big metal door.

And you have to ask
what did you build here?

What are you trying
to keep in the ground

or what are you
trying to keep out?

Inside this building
when you look closely

you start to see clues

that this place
might not have been

so friendly after all.

Although the early 1900s
saw business booming here,

in 1929 the market collapsed.

In the late 1920s

a depression begins

all across central
and Eastern Europe

which has devastating
effects on manufacturing

and, erm, on the economies
of Eastern Europe in general.

Hundreds of workers

who relied on their jobs
here for their livelihood,

they're all out of work.

The old factory is shut down

and for over a decade
the buildings lay dormant...

But in 1942 the factory
came under new management.

The Nazi's.

And the Germans
had always looked

kind of hungrily at bohemia.

The Germans you know,
first nibbled at that land

and then they take
all of czechoslovakia

in the course of 1938, 1939.

The Nazi's occupy
rabstejn janska

but they had a new
plan for the old factory.

Cotton production was low
on the list of Nazi priorities.

What they really needed
more than anything was aircraft.

Half a mile from the factory

is what remains of
the Nazi's strategy

to massively expand
their aircraft production.

The German economy
has to be kept going

and the German war
machine has to be supplied

and one of the ways
the Nazi's do this

is by conscripting
people in to labour.

They constructed a labour camp.

(Speaks foreign language)

Translation: "We are at
rabstejn concentration camp

"which was established in 1944

"for approximately
690 to 700 prisoners.

"Because they couldn't
find enough workers,

"prisoners were bought here

"and the buildings
were surrounded

"by barbed electric wire."

By exploiting labour,

by making slaves
labour in their factories.

The Nazi regime is based
not only on military power

and not only on their twisted
idea of racial superiority

it is also based on slavery.

But those interned here
were not all treated equally.

"There was even a decree
from ss-reichsfuhrer himmler

"which clearly specified

"what people of each
nationality can and cannot get.

"So, the Dutch who the
Germans considered Aryan

"and basically German
were not guarded at all,

"they were living privately,
renting from private persons.

"On the other hand the
Poles, Russians and French

"were doing poorly,

"the French were relatively fine

"because they were
still considered Aryan

"but the eastern nations were
housed in camps behind barbed wire.

"They could only eat what
they were given in the camp,

"they couldn't even pick an
apple somewhere on the street

"or they'd be
strictly punished."

The ultimate result

that Hitler and the Nazi's want

is for all of the people

they consider subhuman

to be first slaves
and then dead slaves.

Working conditions
for Nazi slave labourers

are designed to be able
to get work out of them

but ultimately they are
going to be worked to death.

Prisoners were marched

from the camp to
the factory and back

in an unending brutal cycle

but events hundreds
of miles away

would soon make
life here even harder.

Between the 20th and
the 25th of February 1944

the allies bombed the hell

out of Nazi fighter
plane production.

"Germany definitely lost
control over it's own airspace

"so they established jagerstab.

"It was a task force

"designed to decentralise
fighter aircraft production

"and move it underground."

The manpower required was huge.

Digging those holes
was nasty work,

they used dynamite
and pick axes.

You wouldn't want
that assignment.

The Nazi's ordered four tunnels
to be dug in to the rock face.

They plast almost 83,000
square metres of space...

Carved out of the rock

underneath these old
19th century textile mills.

They were so desperate to
start production of these aircraft

that they moved the machinery in

before the prisoners had even
finished digging the tunnels.

The noise, the fumes,
the lack of daylight

it would have been like
digging your own hell.

"So, here we are
at a shafts crossing

"where during excavation
part of the ceiling collapsed.

"Three prisoners from the
concentration camp died

"when the ceiling fell on them."

They were essentially
worked to death

in these underground factories.

By January 1945,

Germany was months
away from losing the war.

But the prisoners
underground didn't know it.

People kept working,
suffering, dying,

not just for an evil
cause but for a lost cause.

But just weeks before
allied tanks rolled in to Berlin

the prisoners at rabstejn janska
got a glimmer of hope from above.

The first news they have
that the war is almost over

and that they would
probably survive the war

is in march of 1945

when a Soviet
plane flies overhead

and five paratroopers jump out

and land without any
German resistance.

Then on the eight of
may without warning

or announcement the prison
guards began to disappear.

The first they knew

that the Germans who
were holding them captive...

Had lost the war was
when the German guards

just didn't turn up
for work that day.

The army was on it's
way to liberate them,

the Nazi's had taken off
to avoid being captured.

Translation: "We're
at the end of the shaft

"where you can see rows
of drilling for dynamite.

"The demolition charges were
placed in these and blasted.

"They did not do it here

"because this is the place
where excavating stopped

"at the end of world war two

"because the second
Polish army arrived

"and the construction of
the underground factory

"was stopped.

And all the labourers
at rabstejn could do

was put down their pickaxes

and start trying to figure
out how to get home.

Today, the factory buildings

have been reclaimed
by the community.

The camp and the tunnels
stand as an important reminder

of the brutality endured here.

Abandoned, disintegrating,
reclaimed by nature,

structures once
at the cutting edge

bearing witness to the forces,

pioneers and villains
that define the world today.

Emblems of a shared past
still standing in our present.

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