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The poster was actually made in the 1930s to celebrate Soviet-Mongolian friendship, and re-done for USSR-China. I can't seem to send an image here, but will send you a copy if you give me an email address
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Soviet Union supported the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War, so since the Mao Zedong's rise to power in 1949 to Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s Sino-soveit relations were quite good. There is no surprise that the Soviet propaganda supported Chinese communist regime and considered them as the closest ally in 1949.
Viktor Semyonovich Ivanov was a Soviet artist who painted propaganda posters. He started painting his posters at the end of the 1930s. It seems that he was a freelance artist in 1949. There were some posters on Sino-Soviet relations among his works. Unfortunately I did not manage to find the poster you have posted in your question neither on some online catalogs of his works nor on Russian State Library's catalog. But here I found the poster which is similar to it. It was painted in 1954. The artist depicted two men in the same style and left the same signature in the bottom right corner.