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You are off by several decades with your suspicion.

• ceejayoz 16y ago
  The linked examples are. The practice itself probably didn't go away.
  • huhtenberg 16y ago
    > The practice itself probably didn't go away. So you are saying that the practice of editing out "enemies of the state" still exists in former Soviet Union countries? How exactly do you envision this happening?
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    • ceejayoz 16y ago
      The linked video takes place before the fall of the Soviet Union.
    • jablan 16y ago
      Not entirely unrelated, but during Milosevic's dictatorship here in Serbia, one of government-owned daily newspapers used PS to "slightly increase" number of supporters on a pro-government rally. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/media-by-milosevic/photo-essay-how-milosevic-controlled-the-media/874/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/media-by-milosevi... I know, not '80s, but '90s and not ex-SSSR, but close enough.
  • user24 16y ago
    The practice is almost as old as life itself. In Ancient Egypt, after their death, unpopular Pharoh's names were chiseled out of the hieroglyphs.
  • foljs 16y ago
    No, it was further developed by FOX News