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It's OK to shit on anyone when what they are saying is counter to, you know, REALITY.
Yes, Stalin was having photographs heavily redacted.
No, it wasn't "the CIA".
I didn't say the USSR didn't doctor photographs to remove purged members. In my reply to your upper level comment, I explained why the purges were necessary and elaborated on their context. Nothing I said in that comment is counter to reality, I even brought sources.
I never said the purges were un-necessary, and I wasn't shitting on your comment.
I was shitting on the comment saying Stalin didn't do it, it was the CIA.
It's CLEAR Stalin did it, both the purges and the photo edits.
How on earth do you think Stalin would have even accomplished that? By that time the USSR didn't even have access to photoshop - hell nobody outside the cia even knew about it at the time