The U.S. Post Office held a Christmas themed parade in Washington D. C. on this day in 1920.
On the same day, the Red Army invaded Armenia.
Soviet troops in Armenia.
Lenin famously declared the right of self determination of nations, none of which stopped the infant Soviet Union from invading those areas which had declared their independence and which had been part of Imperial Russia. The Baltic States had to fight for their independence, and by this point Poland and the Soviet Union had fought a war in which, had the Soviets won, and they nearly did, would have imposed Communism on Poland in 1920 and probably would have reincorporated the country into the Soviet Union. Trotsky at the time, moreover, envisioned the Red Army continuing on to Berlin.
Armenia would regain her independence after the fall of the Soviet Union, but the oldest officially Christian nation in the world has continued to be beset by its neighbors to the present day.
Also on this day a newspaper photographer photographed the eclectic Adelaide Johnson.
Piece of marble being moved by oxen using a stone boat.
Johnson was a feminist sculptor who was able to launch her career following a settlement she received in a tragic accident. She sculpted female centric themes and in later years would fall into poverty as she wouldn't sell her works for the prices she was offered, figuring they commanded more. She destroyed some publicly in later years in protests over this. Her "bridesmaids" at her wedding were three sculpted figures of feminist and suffrage heroes, which might, or might not, be the work depicted below.
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