Disappearer

From the Commissar Vanishes:

Stalin's bloody reign is not without certain irony. Nikolai Yezhov, the young man strolling with Stalin, is shot in 1940. It seems only fitting that when Yezhov is removed from the photograph he is replaced by the waters of the Moscow-Volga Canal. Yezhov was commissar of water transport.

http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishes.htm

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• stalin
• airbrushing
• ken
• burns
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[acb1511]

Simply Ezhov war really able to appear and disapear)

But this did not save him

[christopher81818]

In Soviet Russia, Picture takes you.

[patsyd80]

We need some show trials these days. Its gotta be better than X factor and all that shit right.

[Durandal1717]

@ProtestantsRUs Look up Akhenaten, damnatio memoriae has been going on for quite a while before Stalin.

[ProtestantsRUs]

Stalin achieved something unmatched in history; he not only destroyed his enemies, he wiped them from history. However, he wasn't successful at this, at all.

[athame57]

Yezhov was no less blood thirsty than Beria...just that Beria wanted his job and knew how to play his cards better.

Then he met a better player called Kruschev who had him shot as an 'English spy!'

[nietzscheprime]

Photoshop ain't got nothing on this

[kentucy9999]

What it must have been like to live in the Soviet Union during the Stalin/Beria era? That knock on the door for the "common folk." The dreaded knock on the door. For those in the hierarchy one day you are talking with fellow bureaucrats and the next day you're being tortured in the bowels of the Lubyanka..Before the German attack on the Soviet Union in WW2 {Operation Barborrossa} Stalin had had a "purge" of 70% of the generals which left the country vulnerable. Incredible.

[boy18inva]

I read somewhere that Kruschev described Yezhov as a "bloodthirsty dwarf".

[Artas1984]

adobe photoshop existed already in 1940..