| Under communist rule, an annual parade in Moscow’s Red Square marked the international labor holiday known as May Day. Although the parade honored the working people of the Soviet Union, communist leaders such as Joseph Stalin, seen here watching the parade, used the event to display the country’s military forces and to honor themselves. These images are from the early 1950s. The two placards carried by the crowd are of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet government, and Stalin, the leader at the time. |
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