This picture is from an exhibition called “Images of the Soviet Leaders: Reality, Utopia, Criticism” currently being held at the Museum of Russian Political History.
The picture was found by Falando Russo, a great blog about Russia from a Portuguese perspective (English translation here).
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Agreed – Stalin is such a friggin’ dickhead!
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? It has nothing to do with f*cking. It is clearly a very early soviet design of the ‘Stalin’ rocket to take the communist message into space via sputnik. It never happened of course for aerodynamic reasons. Drag from tAhe mustache would have destroyed the rocket as it approached the speed of sound.