Fratricidal strife idiom

The background story of this work is happened in China's civil war in 1947(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War), the Kuomintang government in mainland China is struggling for death. The government catched innumerable adult and un-adoult males for military service massively which was a huge disaster for each family. The picture depicts a scene of these catched men who were shaving before go for military service.

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