Photos reveal the last time two tyrants set their eyes on Ukraine

They are images that give an insight into how the streets of were beset by the boot prints of tyrants long before 's forces invaded the country last month.

One, taken in Odessa on the Black Sea coast in 1944 shows dictator Joseph Stalin's troops marching through the city's streets after Adolf Hitler's soldiers had fled amid the failure of their attempt to invade the Soviet Union.

The same street is then seen 77 years later piled high with sandbags and barricades as Ukrainian forces prepare for a Russian onslaught.

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