Communists were big on doctoring photos long before it became easy with home computers. And they made stupid mistakes too - like the kind shown here...
Like everything O does I asked myself why would he bother to put himself into the photo in NY park. And all I can think of is when trying to compose “a life” the NY Columbia College years must have lacked “presentable” photos to pretend he was really there. He probably found the original in a box when he visited granny’s deathbed apartment.
Famous example:
Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin, Yezhov |
Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin |