Children remain children even in the most difficult times
Adults are busy with their adult affairs, and these affairs are not always good and correct - politics, wars, cold wars. But, no matter what troubled times reign on earth, the beautiful, free, golden and funny country of childhood always lives its life nearby.
We have collected 25 historical shots that are full of childish sincerity, fun and happiness. You even forget in what difficult times many of them were filmed.
1. An Australian boy enjoys his new boots during World War II. 2. Happy French girl and her cat, 1959 3. Cheerful duet. 4. Best friends. 5. Girl dousing herself with water, 1949 6. Baby “reading” a magazine, Chicago, 1947 7. Little Marilyn, Paris, 1975 8. Girl dancing in front of a teddy bear, Paris, 1961. 9. Homemade swing after the Battle of Stalingrad, spring 1943. 10. Little musician, 1920s. 11. Children at a puppet show in Paris, 1963 12. A lonely sail is white, Toulon, France, 1949. 13. A boy and his best friend. 14. A kid with his teddy bear on a destroyed London street, 1945. 15. Games in the yard, 1948 16. Duck Therapy, 1956 17. A girl with a doll sits near her house destroyed after a bombing, 1940. 18. Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. 19. Two girls on a makeshift swing, Manchester, England, 1965. 20. Cyclists in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1910 21. Japanese girl, 1958 22. Umbrella test, 1963 23. “Wait for me, Dad!”, New Westminster, Canada, 1940 24. Tenderness itself, 1950