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Onder Stalin’s regime, dat liep van 1929 tot en met 1953, zijn de meeste foto’s vervalst. Stalin paste een strenge censuur toe waardoor zoveel mogelijk in het teken kwam te staan van de verheerlijking van zijn persoon en daden. In dit voorbeeld is gebruik gemaakt van retoucheringstechnieken

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When in the summer of 1968 Fidel Castro (right) approves of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, Carlos Franqui (middle) cuts off relations with the regime and goes into exile in Italy. His image was removed from photographs. Franqui wrote about his feeling of being erased: I discover my photographic death. Do I exist? I am a little black, I am a little white, I am a little shit, On Fidel's vest.

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The German Chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt (far left in photo), meets with Leonid Brezhnev (far right), First Secretary of the Communist Party. The two smoke and drink, and it is reported that the atmosphere is cordial and that they are drunk. The German press publishes a photograph that shows the beer bottles on the table. The Soviet press, however, removed the bottles from the original photograph.

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After Dylann Roof was identified as the shooter responsible for killing nine people at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, evidence quickly emerged that Roof was a white supremacist who had likely targeted the church because of its significance to the black community. Among the evidence was a photo from what appeared to be Roof’s own website showing him wearing a jacket with patches representing the former apartheid-era Rhodesian and South African flags—both of them popular symbols among white supremacist groups. A manipulated version of the photo began appearing on Facebook and various blogs, however, in which these patches had been replaced with a patch representing the campaign logo from U.S. President Barack Obama, as if to suggest that the shooter was actually an Obama supporter.

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Stalin liet Nikolaj Jezjov verwijderen. Jezjov was toentertijd, na Stalin, de belangrijkste man in de SU. In het geheim werd hij geëxecuteerd nadat hij had bekend ‘een buitenlandse spion’ te zijn, ook was hij homoseksueel. Zijn kind werd verbannen naar het kindertehuis in Penza (Rusland) als ‘kind van een vijand van het volk.

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Het gebruiken van de macht van de staat, controlerende macht om informatie achter te houden of aan banden te leggen.

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Ineens is minister Goebbels verdwenen op de rechterfoto. Vermoedelijk weggepoetst vanwege geruchten dat Goebbels en filmmaakster Leni Reifenstahl een affaire hadden. Wat rest is een spookachtige gestalte.