EU: Chisinau: Metropolie (1941)
1941 Chisinau, Moldova
The Nativity Cathedral, known locally as the Metropolie, stood at the center of Chisinau's civic life; this 1941 photograph captures the building amid the upheaval that followed the Axis occupation of Bessarabia that year.
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