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ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYCommunist youth rally in Berlin, 1951
Stars and Stripes
November 3, 2018
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Nancy Graham ©Stars and StripesBerlin, August 12, 1951: Young Communists parade through Berlin's Soviet sector during a march that was part of a "World Youth Festival." Many of the merry Marxists took the opportunity to visit West Berlin for a look at how the other half lived, and a Stars and Stripes story two days earlier noted that 1,073 of them had sought political asylum in the West.
RELATED MATERIAL: Stars and Stripes' 1951 story about the youth rally.