Photographs of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, Moscow, 1954
Photographs of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, Moscow, 1954, a set by One Mans Treasure on Flickr.
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In 1954 the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition reopened after a 13 year hiatus. It covered 237 hectares and celebrated the vast expanse of the Soviet empire, from the borders with Finland, Poland and Turkey to the west and Japan in the east. Stalin has been dead for a year but his presence still hangs vivid over the USSR. The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition was as much a monument to him as it was to the idea of the USSR.
Most of the people in these photos have come from the east - Tajikstan or Kazakhstan. The photographers worked for Tass.