Mao at Stalin's side on a ceremony arranged for Stalin's 71th birthday in Moscow in December 1949. Behind between them is Marshal of the Soviet Union Nikolai Bulganin. On the right hand of Stalin is Walter Ulbricht of East Germany and at the edge Mongolia's Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal. The person on the far left is Shi Zhe, Mao's Russian translator, 1949

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