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"Sandinista Youth with Contact Grenade - Managua, Nicaragua 1978"

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A teenage rebel Sandinista supporter defiantly raises a homemade contact grenade in Masaya, Nicaragua Civil War in Nicaragua - 1978. The grenades were made by wrapping black powder (gunpowder) with metal screws and nails in layers of paper tape. The grenade would explode when thrown against a hard surface causing damage and injury from the metal shrapnel.
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A teenage rebel Sandinista supporter defiantly raises a homemade contact grenade in Masaya, Nicaragua Civil War in Nicaragua - 1978. The grenades were made by wrapping black powder (gunpowder) with metal screws and nails in layers of paper tape. The grenade would explode when thrown against a hard surface causing damage and injury from the metal shrapnel.