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See the before and after of commissar Yezhov?
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Here’s the link for a book.
I curse myself for not making an “impulse purchase” of the book
at the Santa Monica CA book store while on noon break on a jury.
“The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs
and Art in Stalin’s Russia”
by David King
The Soviets were ,masters at it but not the only practitioners. Less common in Nazi Germany. But hey, here in America we have Photoshop..You’re not missing much. There is a multitude of books and material in good libraries going back to the 50’s.