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The 26th of April is the anniversary of the Guernica bombings where German and Italian fascist forces killed hundreds of people in the Basque town in the first large scale aerial bombing attack in history.
The story of this event is known to most people. What is less well-known is something that happened more recently.
The above picture is Picass0 ²s famous
work depicting the scene. This work is reproduced in the United Nation's
building in New York and when Colin Powell made his bulls**t speech at
the UN , which he later described as "not his finest moment" (oh well
that's fine then), the painting was covered so that it wasn't in the
background.
Diplomats later told journalists that the Bush administration had "leaned on" UN officials to cover it up.
