This is a college class in dialectical materialism taught by Pavel Apostol at Victor Babes University in Kluj, Romania 1951. I would think the students would be smiling at the knowledge that history will march forth and create socialist paradise all over the world. Then again, Romania was recovering from WWII when they sided with Fascist Germany, actually had troops at the battle of Stalingrad fighting the Marxist Leninists. Then Romania changed sides and fought with the Allies. Then Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin decided that Romania would be under USSR influence when the war ended. Maybe that is why these students appear to be so depressed. When I first saw this picture I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair!
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