Russian Figures Celebrating Stalin'S 70Th Birthday, 1949

RUSSIA - DECEMBER 21: Photograph of key political figures around STALIN, supreme ruler of the USSR, who celebrated his 70th birthday December 21, 1949 at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. From left to right, Italian communist minister Palmiro TUGLIATTI; Kremlin economic advisor Alexeï KOSYGIN, Lazer M. KAGANOVICH, head of the Soviet Communist Party; Mao ZEDONG, president of the People's Republic of China; BULGANIN; STALIN; Walter ULBRICHT, first secretary of the GDR Socialist Party; CEDENBAL; Nikita KHRUSHCHEV; I. KOPLENIG; Dolores IBARRURI; GHEORGHIU-DEJ, secretary of the Rumanian Communist Party; Mikhaïl Andreïevitch SOUSLOV, member of the Soviet Communist Party; Nikolaï M. SVERNIK; Valko CERVENKOV, Bulgarian communist minister; Gheorghi Maximilianovitch MALENKOV, private secretary to STALIN; the Czechoslovakian SIROKY; head of the Soviet secret police L.P. BERIA; Soviet Marshal Kliment E. VOROSHILOV; MOLOTOV, head of the Soviet diplomatic corps; MIKOJAN, economic specialist of the Soviet Union Communist Party; and RAKOSI, Hungarian communist ruler. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)