Wikipedia has a whole article on soviet photo censorship. these are a set of photos used as an example.
Am I the only one who thinks the the picture WITH Yezhov looks like the fake? Examine Yezhov's outline closely and compare with the water in the background. it just doesnt look right.
To my non-forensically trained eye, it seems as if the picture WIHTOUT Yezhov is the original and the one WITH him if the fake.
Am I the only one who thinks this?
This would support the American rhetoric of "evil communism" if the original photo is indeed the one without Yezhov
James Garcia
I was under the impression that it was much easier to airbrush something out of a photo than to airbrush it in.
Christopher Harris
seems reasonable. But Yezhov still has an outline around him not found on any other person in the photo
Brayden Williams
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Josiah Ortiz
It is fake as fuck.
Even I could photoshop Yezhov in better than that
Jack Watson
totally my point. but these photos were made before photoshop. Its not unreasonable to think that this picture with yezhov has imperfections in the forgery
Luis Martin
In other words, you don't actually know what you're talking about and this is all baseless speculation.
Hudson Phillips
this.
besides, who even gives a shit? what's wrong with people to think forging pictures like this is the essence of all evil? it's the most non-issue in all of antisoviet propaganda.
Matthew Jones
The contrast is much higher in the second photo, meaning the first has more image data. You can't add image data by reducing contrast. That's not just a principle of digital photo manipulation, it's a principle of physics. It's the same reason you can't zoom in and enhance like CSI. I don't know the source of these images but look at the borders. Pay attention to the flags on the roofs and the building on the right side. If the border on the second pic was part of the original photo, how did the edit include parts of the flags/buildings that the original cropped out?
Pic related, I tried adjusting the levels in the two pictures to resemble the other. You can do it one way and get a similar effect but the other way you lose too much image data.
Personally I always thought it looked like they cut out a photo of the guy, superimposed it on the original photo (left in OP) and took a photo of that photo.
Aiden Jenkins
Fuck.
Jaxon Ward
Nice
Brody Jenkins
You dumb kiddos, you just don't know, when the Soviets declared somebody an enemy of the people regular citizens would go down to the local library to scratch their photo out of books and old newspapers with a key, Soviets definitely censored people out of existence and the picture in the op is one of the more sophisticated examples.
Noah Martin
What's your wisdom on the subject of the holocaust, fashie?
Jack Howard
Source?
Ian Wilson
But wasn't the Soviet Union not REAL communism? So why does it even matter?
Hunter Moore
Yall are paranoid.
Jonathan Rodriguez
Read a book.
Liam Wood
Any suggestions?
Leo Hill
The issue here is that the water is fucked up. that looks like it was altered, and the outline around Yezhov is probably to due with that alone. Maybe the water level was dismally low, so their airbrushed it in, or maybe the sun reflecting off the water looked awful, so they painted it in. idk. go ask RIA Novosti about the original.
Xavier Cox
what was the point of Stalin airbrushing this photo instead of just destroyng every copy they had and pretend it never happend. was this photo really that important
Jayden Price
This looks like a shop. I should know. I've seen quite a few shops in my time.
Dylan Taylor
Read Bordiga
Michael Howard
On the internet? That can't be so!
Dylan Morris
This one sums up Stalin's whole life really.
Juan Morales
yeah im sure america didnt have some means of photo editing before we had adobe
Joshua Russell
huh? don't you mean the opposite?
Eli Smith
I like how that last guy's hair style changes from swept back to a middle part.
Gavin Gonzalez
There used to be 5 guys in the originial
Charles Smith
Made me lol.
Asher Fisher
Rewriting history is far, far more powerful a weapon than erasing history.
Easton Lee
but the photo dosen't really show off something significant. it could have been taken any day at any place. he could just have taken a random photo with himself on it and claimed it was taken that day
Landon Hughes
you forgot you shitposting leftcom flag Mr satan
Ryder Johnson
Honestly, I'm not sure what is going on here or why does it matter. Yezhov wasn't good person. People didn't want him remembered. So they decided to remove him from people's memory.
Specifically about picture - I am no expert, but the one with Yezhov should be real. There was a movie made at the very same time photo was taken (opening of Moscow-Volga channel in 1937, IIRC) and Yezhov was present there.
Landon Ortiz
The point is to displace the original version as the "real" one on public record and the collective consciousness. He wasn't just adding or subtracting to history, but throughly rewriting it.
As for the relative unimportance of that photo, well reqwriting history requires quite a bit of fine-tuning. You can't just forge a few hallmark documents. It involves the adulteration of millions of details and minutiae.
Mason Martinez
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Michael Bell
Damn, that's really sad.
Ian Powell
They all have a thin white outline where they meed the water
Tyler Hughes
He did dreadful things, but given the life he had, it's hardly surprising
Adam Powell
Dr. Pavel, I'm NKVD.
Carter Jenkins
What's with the hand inside the coat pose that so many world leaders and prominent people throughout history have done in pictures.