Forward to the triumph of communism // вперед к торжеству коммунизма
About the photo: A US Army Major who filmed Josef Stalin's funeral procession in 1953 left behind an incredible trove of color photographs showing life behind the Iron Curtain.
Major Martin Manhoff photographed everything from the construction of Stalinist skyscrapers to an elephant at the zoo while he served as an assistant army attache at the US Embassy in Moscow for two years.
Manhoff was deported for espionage in 1954, and the images he took were stored in a former auto body shop next to his home in Washington until both he and his wife Jan died.
Pictured, street cleaners in front of the GUM department store in the Red Square
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