The little girl photographed here with Stalin in 1936 (Gelya Markizova) presented him with a bouquet of flowers (the photo was cropped to eliminate another figure who appeared to the side of Stalin, the first secretary of the Buryat Mongol ASSR, M.I. Erbanov). The story of this girl after this is quite tragic. Her parents were murdered just a year after the photograph was taken. The father, second secretary of the Buryat Mongol ASSR, was charged with spying for Japan and shot; the mother was killed as the wife of an enemy of the people.

You can be only glad that other communist leaders had little interest in holding babies, and instead either hugged each other:

(Khrushchev and Castro)

(Leonid Brezhnev)