Friday, June 15, 2007

The Commissar Vanishes

Cool site from the Newseum with a bunch of different examples of Soviet photo editing. Mostly Trotsky of course. Somewhat marred by the use of present tense... makes it read like a freshman paper. But oh well, the photos are good.

Last paragraph has some ideas on a thing I've wondered: why the doctoring is sometimes so obvious:
Why do the communists do such a rough job retouching Soviet books and journals? Did they hope such eliminations will be noticed, and thus send an ominous warning?
Hmmm, could be!

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