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Chairman Mao Zedong, 1949.

RGASPI. F.558. Op.11. D.1701. L.5. via Stalin Digital Archive

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Comrade Charu Majumdar (standing row, first from the right), S. A. Dange (sitting row, second from the right) and others in Siliguri, 1950s.

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Karl Marx, London, first half of 1872 (photograph: John Mayall).

Printed and retouched copy, original in the former CPSU Central Party Archives (now RGASPI).

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Karl Marx, London, first half of 1872 (photograph: John Mayall).

Original positive copy that was sent by Marx to W. H. Riley.

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Karl Marx, London, first half of 1872 (photograph: John Mayall).

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Karl Marx, Hannover, late April 1867 (photograph: Friedrich Wunder).

Copy from the Historisches Museum Hannover.

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Zhou Enlai at the Hankou headquarters of the Communist Party of China, 1938 (photograph: Robert Capa).

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Zhou Enlai posing infront of a Karl Marx poster hung at the Hankou headquarters of the Communist Party of China, 1938 (photograph: Robert Capa).

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Zhou Enlai posing infront of a Karl Marx poster hung at the Hankou headquarters of the Communist Party of China, 1938 (photograph: Robert Capa).

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Zhou Enlai posing infront of a Karl Marx poster hung at the Hankou headquarters of the Communist Party of China, 1938 (photograph: Robert Capa).

Text on the right side: "Strengthen the unity for the victory of the third period of resistance!"

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Zhou Enlai posing infront of a Karl Marx poster hung at the Hankou headquarters of the Communist Party of China, 1938 (photograph: Robert Capa).

Text on the right side: "Strengthen the unity for the victory of the third period of resistance!"

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He Zizhen, Baoan, July 1936 (photograph: Edgar Snow).

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He Zizhen and Chairman Mao, Baoan, July 1936 (photograph: Edgar Snow).

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He Zizhen and Chairman Mao, Baoan, July 1936 (photograph: Edgar Snow).

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Eleanor Marx, dressed in an artistic fashion, c. 1880s.

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A 14-year-old Eleanor Marx, London, 1869.

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Chairman Mao with Evans F. Carlson, and a picture (recto and verso) of Mao with a dedication to Carlson, Yan'an, 1937.

From the personal papers of Carlson, which was sold by his descendants at Sotheby's in 2023.

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"“He who is not afraid of death by a thousand cuts dares to unhorse the emperor” - this is the indomitable spirit needed in our struggle to build socialism and communism."
— Chairman Mao, 1957

Happy birthday, Chairman Mao!

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We remember the great Stalin, unrepentant fighter for the victory of communism.

"I think there are two "swords": one is Lenin and the other Stalin. The sword of Stalin has now been discarded by the Russians. (...) We Chinese have not thrown it away."
— Mao

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Stalin, c. end of the 1920's or 1930's.

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"I have spent a lifetime doing what I was fitted for, namely playing second fiddle, and indeed I believe I acquitted myself reasonably well. And I was happy to have so splendid a first fiddle as Marx."
— Engels to J. P. Becker (October 15, 1884)

Happy birthday Engels!

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Friedrich Engels, London, first half of February 1891 (photograph: W. E. Debenham).

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For another example of the squirrel analogy, cf.:
https://t.co/5eqS5ZoUyy

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A drawing of Marx about the ban of Die Rheinische Zeitung. In this famous drawing Marx was depicted as Prometheus, chained to a printer, while an eagle (representing Prussian reaction) eating his liver.

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Friedrich Engels - Die Freien (1842)

(l-to-r:) Arnold Ruge, Ludwig Bühl, Carl Nauwerck, Bruno Bauer, Otto Wigand, Edgar Bauer, Max Stirner, Eduard Meyen, ?, ?, ?, Karl Friedrich Köppen.

Squirrel (Eichhörnchen) may be a satire of Friedrich Eichhorn, frequently depicted as one.