Need help identifying the people in this vintage photo postcard.

[prov3vs56]

[argon38]

Lol OK, nothing like him.

[c*me*4*lefton*info]

My thoughts (since we are guessing) about Edison.

There are multiple people in the picture that one would logically like to identify. But there is only one "name," Edison. Perhaps Edison is a place not a person's name in this instance. Edison does not identify a group of people unless its the Edison Family Reunion. It would however describe the place all these people worked, they worked at "Edison."

[maxine*j]

Yep.  "Edison" could mean:  An Edison workplace.  Or some place in Edison, NJ, unrelated to Menlo Park.    Or Edison, PA, or Edison, CA, or one of the other Edisons, USA.  Or a person named  Edison not related to Thomas Alva Edison, since it's not that unusual a surname, after all.   Or a person whose first name was Edison.  Or...

[debora_34_]

That's certainly an odd one.  1940s but not carefully posed, not carefully cropped.  Doesn't appear to be a social meeting but alcohol (beer) is being served.   And, by way, it would have been helpful if you had posted a photograph of the post card's entire front (as well as the back.)  Context is often very important in identification. 

Debora

[prov3vs56]

All of the front of the card is showing except an insignificant amount on the left. All of the back is showing. Thanks.

[johnnycb09]

Could the guy on the left with his hand raised be Lenin?

[maxine*j]

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@johnnycb09 wrote:

Could the guy on the left with his hand raised be Lenin?

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No.  Definitely not.  Lenin died in 1924, for starters.

[argon38]

That could be Stalin hiding behind the curtain?

[argon38]

Looks like Brezhnev's arm

[maxine*j]

And with all those bottles, Yeltsin can't be far away.

[argon38]

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@maxine*j wrote:

And with all those bottles, Yeltsin can't be far away.

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I'll have Andropov whatever he's drinking.

[maxine*j]

Yanayev tried to get, of course. 

[argon38]

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@maxine*j wrote:

Yanayev tried to get, of course. 

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Yes, Chernenko's too difficult, isn't it?

[maxine*j]

And poor old Malenkov...  Well, he just wans't invited to any of the chummy get-togethers.

[prov3vs56]

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