RE: Looks like the pistol has been photoshopped.
When was photoshop available?
Before yesterday.
Interesting! Never noticed that.
Try this on for size. Early “photoshop”, from photo shops under Stalin starting in 1922.
As soon as we had photographs, people were editing them.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulation-1922-1953/
BTW, the photo in question was not altered it seems. The execution was (evidently) completely legal under the laws of war. Apprehended enemy combatants in civilian clothes can be executed at point of capture. Still can, but few politicians have the juevos to allow it.