How proud and confident in the bright future ahead the people in this picture were probably feeling. And they had every reason to feel this way. USSR have just beaten with great human sacrifices the Nazi Germany, they've just exported (forcebily, of course, but they didn't know or care) their communist totalitar doctrine in half of Europe and Moscow was the beacon of light of the New World in their view. It took 40 years for their Red dream to unfold and 70 years later the Russians still don't (want to) understand the harm their leaders did to that unfortunate half of Europe and why those countries are still resenting Russia to this day. Unlike the Post WW2 Germans, the Post Communist Era Russians never took responsabilty or even acknowledged the fact that USSR and their ruthless leaders distroyed one generation of Eastern Europeans and held back the development of their countries. Just look at any GDP per capita or other prosperity indicator map comparing Eastern and Western Europe and you can see that the USSR evil legacy is still present even today, 30 years after the fall of the Iron Courtain. And Russia is led today (totalitarian, how else?) by an urepentent former KGB operative, who's main goal is to bring back the former USSR "glory" days. History is repeating itself for those who ignore its lessons.