Three Russian social democrats in exile share sweet memories in a park in Berlin ten years after the October Revolution.
Left: Vladimir Vojtinskij (1885-1960), member of the Executive Council of the Petrograd Soviet in 1917, was arrested after the Bolshevik coup, went to Berlin in 1922, emigrated to the USA in 1935 and worked as a social scientist.
Middle: Pavel Aksel'rod (1850-1928), defined the Bolshevik coup as a "historical crime without parallel in modern history". He died in exile in Berlin.
Right: Boris Sapir (1902-1989), co-founded the Moscow social-democratic youth movement. Spent over two years in Solovki, the infamous GULAG camp on the Solovetskiye islands in the White Sea. In 1925 Boris Sapir fled abroad and in1936 he became head of the IISH Eastern Europe and Russia department.