Mao Tse-Tung, Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev sitting together at a celebration of Stalin’s 71th birthday, 1949. Khrushchev would take power in the USSR soon after Stalin’s death, four years later in 1953. Mao, who took power in China in 1949, would outlast and outlive both leaders. (954 X 689)

Mao Tse-Tung, Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev sitting together at a celebration of Stalin’s 71th birthday, 1949. Khrushchev would take power in the USSR soon after Stalin’s death, four years later in 1953. Mao, who took power in China in 1949, would outlast and outlive both leaders. (954 X 689)

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