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World Service,24 Aug 1999,3 mins

The Falsification of Photographs in the USSR

My Century

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David King collects photos that document the history of the Soviet Union. He explains how Stalin encouraged the alteration and retouching of photographs to remove the faces of people who had fallen out of favour with the authorities, such as Leon Trotsky.

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