Shaping the future battlefield.
Yep, it’s the “Mensheviks vs Bolsheviks” Phase.
Next comes the “Stalinists vs Trotskyites” Phase.
You need to find a 1997 book , “The Commissar Vanishes”, by David king. It’s a book of how the USSR would alter such photos during the Stalin era. It has that photo, and many more.