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It would be so funny if one of the examples were: Herse's Trotsky with Lenin. Wow now he's gone! edit: like here: http://www.dutchcowboys.nl/images/upload/trot

• gcv 16y ago
  I thought the same thing, but then realized that, by 1987, retconning the early days of Bolshevism was a low priority.
• kls 16y ago
  For a good book on this, take a look at the commissar vanishes. It is a pictography of soviet photo editing to remove the undesirables.
• g_lined 16y ago
  Those pictures are from either different photos or different frames in a video. Do you have a link to the webpage discussing them? I realise it may not be possible to present the same frame with Lenin and without, but knowing whether they were taken several minutes or seconds apart would be useful in understanding the power of the tools the were using.
• khafra 16y ago
  There's a museum exhibit of Stalin's own B3ta.com from back in the day, called The Commissar Vanishes: http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/ http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/