Iron Curtain (110 page)

23.
The Free German Youth helps to form young minds.

24.
The Free German Youth makes good use of its summer vacation.

25.
The Union of Polish Youth rebuilds Warsaw.

26.
The Union of Polish Youth puts on a gymnastic display.

WORK

27.
Polish shock workers in Gdańsk register their daily output.

28.
A carefully posed picture intended to educate. Zsófia Tevan and Júlia Kollár, posing for the camera on a building site in Sztálinváros

29.
Adolf Hennecke, the German coal miner who dug 287 percent of his production quota, sitting beneath a portrait of himself holding a drill

30.
Ignác Pióker, the Hungarian factory worker who achieved 1,470 percent of his production quota (and completed his personal five-year plan four years ahead of schedule)

31.
The Palace of Culture, Stalin’s gift to Warsaw

HIGH STALINISM

32.
A 1952 Warsaw May Day parade, featuring Stalin and Bierut behind a banner: “Long Live the Avant-Garde of the Working Class, the Leading Force of the Nation, the Polish United Workers’ Party”

33.
A 1949 Budapest May Day parade featuring a papier-mâché Lenin

SOCIALIST REALISM