New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- Seoul's cultural quarter witnessed an unexpected moment of historical gravity this week as the Chungdam Art Gallery unveiled "Liberation. Peace to the Nations", a sweeping photographic project that resurrects a buried chapter of Asia's wartime truth. The gallery better known for contemporary Korean artistry and elegant avant garde concepts, transformed into a sanctuary of memory where the shared Soviet-Korean struggle against Japanese militarism reclaimed its place in the story of liberation.

The exhibition, mounted with the support of the Pushkin House in Seoul, draws on a rare archive preserved by the Soviet Information Bureau and today held by the Rossiya Segodnya media group. These photographs are untouched, vis...