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Posted in History, Society, Technology by Greg Ross on March 25th, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Commissar_Vanishes_1.jpg

People were retouching photos long before PhotoShop. In 1938 Nikolai Yezhov, a leader of the Soviet secret police, fell out of favor with Stalin — and literally disappeared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Commissar_Vanishes_2.jpg