Communist leaders from two continents at the bolshoi theater in moscow at a meeting in honor of josef stalin's 70th birthday on december 21, 1949, (left to right: unidentified woman, palmiro togliatti, secretary general of the italian communist party, soviet finance minister a,n, kosygin, politburo member l,m, kaganovich, chairman mao zedong, armed forces minister marshal n,a, bulganin, stalin, walter ulbricht, deputy premier of the east german government, j, cedenbal, n,s, khrushchev, chief of the ukrainian council of ministers, i, koplenig, spain's 'passion flower' dolores ibarruri, g, georgiu-dej, secretary general of romania's communist party, m,a, suslov, russia's chief cominform delegate, n,m, svernik, chairman of the supreme council of the soviet, valko cervenkov, secretary general of the bulgarian communist party, politburo member g,m, malenkov, czech deputy premier viliam siroky, soviet secret police chief l,p, beria, soviet marshal klementi voroshilov, v,m, molotov, soviet trade chief a,i, mikoyan, matyas rakosi, secretary general of the hungarian communist party and vice premier of hungary).