Wish You Were Here

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

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voroshilov,_Molotov,_Stalin,_with_Nikolai_Yezhov.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/File:The_Commissar_Vanishes_2.jpg