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by nlpparty 852 days ago
Photos have never been a fundamental proof if the stakes are high or you have an idling censorship institution. Soviets (and maybe others, I just happen to know only about them ) successfully edited photos and then mass-reproduced them.

just some google link about the issue: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulation-1...