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Amazing Images With Little Known Stories From History
Rare Collection | May 1, 2019
An arctic explorer offers canned milk to a nursing polar bear, while a cub plays with his leg (Russia, 1980)
In the 1950s Russian soldiers out on patrol had one thing in abundance, condensed milk. On a routine military expedition in the Chukchi Peninsula soldiers came across a vast amount of polar bears who weren’t doing well in the -40 Fahrenheit weather. The bears and their cubs were starving and freezing, so the soldiers did what they could to help the poor animals.
Soldiers tended to open the cans of condensed milk for the polar bears who would proceed to lick it clean and then feed their cubs. When the conditions are as harsh as they are in a Soviet winter then everyone and everything has to stick together.
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