[Revolting cat!]

Indeed. All expertly done long before the inventors of today's Photoshop were born. And the commissar who vanished was Nikolai Yezhov, chairman of the NKVD during Stalin's Great Purge. He became known for his cruelty and sadism. But he was executed (after tortures) before Beria, in 1940. (Who does he remind you of? And not only in this photo, but there are others under different angles that work similarly!)

[no-to-illegals]

This is getting scary R-c. It that an accurate portrait? If is am starting to wonder a bit more on the WTHeck side of life.

[SunkenCiv]

Each gen of that shot looked less and less like a photograph, and the rest of those doctored shots were the same. The techniques were used for other reasons elsewhere in the world, some probably since the beginning of photography, but the Stalinist approach was transparently obvious because the earlier iterations had already been published.

That is a creepy coincidence, too, btw.

[TBall]

I just did an image search and thought it was funny to see all the Obama images mixed in. https://www.google.com/search?q=nikolai+yezhov&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

[Gator113]

The plot is intriguing. Perhaps we are living within a mini-series.