{"id":10229,"date":"2007-03-12T16:14:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T23:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/03\/12\/now-you-see-him.html"},"modified":"2007-03-12T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T23:14:22","slug":"now_you_see_him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/12\/now_you_see_him.html","title":{"rendered":"Now you see him &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Commissar Vanishes ...\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/commissar-vanishes.jpg\" width=\"660\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>A spiffy site on the Soviet Union, the careful control of news and the historic record, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newseum.org\/berlinwall\/commissar_vanishes\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">quiet manipulation of photography to enforce same<\/a>.  The young commissar of water transport at Stalin&#8217;s right, Nikolai Yezhov, was executed in 1940, and his image removed from the historical record thereafter (ironicallly replaced by a nice expanse of water &#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Like Winston Smith, the Soviets had this down to a fine science, even in the pre-PhotoShop days.  I recall some similar photos from Maoist China, where various travel partners of Mao were vanished from the historical photos as they were, themselves, booted out of favor and power.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/tableofmalcontents\/2007\/03\/the_commissar_v.html\" target=\"_blank\">Table of Malcontents<\/a>)<\/small><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spiffy site on the Soviet Union, the careful control of news and the historic record, and the quiet manipulation of photography to enforce same. 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Like a lot...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40837,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/more-spiffy-public-domain-images-released.html","url_meta":{"origin":10229,"position":1},"title":"More spiffy public domain images released","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Jan-14 7:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm increasingly impressed by institutions like this putting items out to the public for their use (with credit).Reshared post from +Perry J. 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