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Cover: Gorbachev photograph by Sergei Guneyev -- Novosti: Lenin photograph from Sovfoto...
Actually, the editors had dug out an old Sovfoto picture taken back in 1937, when Joseph Stalin was busily purging his Old Bolshevik pals and grinding out propaganda that they were traitors who deserved to be shot. One sharp-eyed Times reader, Editor, Author and ex-Communist Max Eastman, who reads Russian, spotted something the Times editors had missed on a propaganda poster raised above the crowd. Wrote Eastman to the Times: the Salisbury story gave "the impression of an entire nation orphaned and in deep mourning. Perhaps it would help toward an understanding of the deeper state of mind...
...recent Red China anniversary parade in Peking. Ranks of marchers bore aloft portraits of Mao (TIME, Nov. 6), and news pictures of the spectacle were apparently released for domestic propaganda. Other marchers carried images of Stalin. Pictures of these latter were sent to Moscow, and reached the West through Sovfoto, the Russian newspicture agency...
...scatter-quote son) last week paid Joseph Stalin a birthday (his 67th) visit in the Kremlin. Faye and Elliott reported that their host, who had been ailing at Sochi in the Caucasus, looked very well, as indeed he did in a highly retouched photograph (see cut) issued by Sovfoto, the official Soviet photo service. If Stalin imparted any immortal confidences and earth-shaking forecasts, Elliott hasn't revealed them...
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