GUARARY S (active 1930s 1960s) Communist Party Secretary Jos

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GUARARY, S. (active 1930s-1960s)
Communist Party Secretary Josef Stalin, President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Potsdam. Ferrotyped silver print, 8 3/4x11 1/2 inches (22.2x29.2 cm.), with a caption label, in Cyrillic, along with Izevestia's archive hand stamp on verso. 1945

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Guarary, a photojournalist for Izvestia newspaper, captured Stalin, Churchill, and Truman in a quiet moment. The statesmen had convened to decide how to punish Germany. (The Nazis had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on May 8, 1945, V-E Day.)