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Valued exposure: Red right hand

Stalin adjusts a windscreen wiper in 1934

On 5 March 1953, it was announced that Soviet leader Josef Stalin was gravely ill and near death.

This photograph shows Stalin adjusting the windscreen wiper of a car in 1934.

Picture by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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