It's below zero and the wind is roaring, up here on the roof of Nebraska. I was supposed to have something done earlier this week, but given the uh, rather severe weather conditions, that had to be put off. However, I'm not in the mood to get out the boat and row over to Skins's island today.
However, I am in the mood to show most-excellent examples of left-wing distortions of history, given that the primitives on Skins's island seem to think their place is full of nothing but sweet reason and calmness, when in fact as history plainly and loudly shows, Skins's island is a hotbed of hate and rage.
When I was wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants, I was given a few examples of socialist-era "photoshopping"--they're poor examples, though, and actually I got better examples of socialist distortion of geography, in maps--but I did scan these from The Commissar Vanishes (David King, 1997, Metropolitan Books).
We saw an example of this during the campaign of the mid-term elections, when one of the weekly newsmagazines (Time or Newsweek; I no longer remember) featured on its cover a photoshopped image of the Republican candidate (who won) for governor of South Carolina, taking her Hindu features and making her into a "generic" white Republican woman.
Dems, liberals, and primitives will play dirty every time.
And they have a long history of it.
I'm putting this in the DUmpster first, in hopes that lurking primitives will take note, and then after a while, I'll move it to its more-appropriate forum, General Discussion.
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The above is a photograph from 1897, a meeting of the socialist conspirators in St. Petersburg, Russia. That is of course Vladimir Ilyich seated in the center.
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The above is the same photograph as later published in socialist books, but a particular person is absent.
(Never mind who the missing people are in the photographs, assuming quite reasonably that they were important people at the time, but offending the socialists, later got erased from history.)
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The above is a photograph taken in Italy, in 1908, Vladimir Ilyich playing chess.
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The above is the same photograph as later published in socialist books, but a particular person is absent.
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Iosif Vissarionovich in 1924, when he was 45 years old.
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The photograph that was published as "current" in 1939, when the Great Father of the People was 60 years old.
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The above photograph was taken in 1925.
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Not only have most of the people (all of whom perished in the socialist purges) in the preceding photograph been cut out, but Gregori Konstantinovich has been moved closer to the Great Father of the People, right side.
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Taken in Leningrad, 1927.
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A defacement of the same, just before airbrushing out.
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Iosif Vissorionovich, 1930, in Moscow.
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The man (on the left) obliterated from the official photograph was merely a simple peasant or worker, but as he was directing the Great Father of the People where to go--and no one, but no one, showed Stalin where to go--he had to be liquidated from the picture.
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The socialist Central Committee in 1934.
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The military officer on the far left of the preceding photograph was purged.
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1934.
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1935.
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This is perhaps the most well-known of the socialist distortions, Klement Yefremovich, Vyatcheslav Mikhailovich, the Great Father of the People, and Yezhov the Dwarf, Nikolai Ivanovich, in 1937.
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In 1938--Yezhov the Dwarf has been liquidated.
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Potsdam, 1945.
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As the meeting was shown in later socialist books.
The Commissar Vanishes is a great book, and while a reasonably large one, not nearly large enough, given the incredible number of socialist distortions of history. If one can find a copy of it, it's worth the price.