Stalin is captured in this photograph by Lt. Gen. Nikolai Vlasik, the Soviet dictator’s bodyguard. Vlasik’s off-the-record photos of Stalin caused a sensation in the early 1960s when an enterprising Soviet journalist spirited some out, selling them to newspapers and magazines worldwide.

Stalin's other face

Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko. By the end of World War 2, she had 309 confirmed kills - thus making her the most successful female sniper in history.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Front row, 2nd from left, Marshal Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974) with red sash, British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, (1887-1976), Army General Vasily Sokolovsky (1897-1968) behind Monty, Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896 -1968), Colonel-General Mikhail Malinin (1899-1960) partially visible behind Rokossovsky, are in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin; Marshal Zhukov is decorated with the Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Rokossovsky - Honorary Knight Commander of the Bath, V. Sokolowski and M. Malinin - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military).
