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Title: Kim Jong-Un's uncle is airbrushed out of television documentary repeat after being sacked by dictator nephew
Post by: flowers on December 07, 2013, 06:04:45 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2519848/Kim-Jong-Uns-uncle-airbrushed-television-documentary-repeat-sacked-dictator-nephew.html

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    Jang Song Thaek missing from recent showings
    His face is either blurred or scenes with him cut
    He's believed to have been sacked after aide defected

Title: Re: Kim Jong-Un's uncle is airbrushed out of television documentary repeat after being sacked by dictator nephew
Post by: SPQR on December 07, 2013, 11:12:02 pm

Stalin did this.Visual censorship was also exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government attempted to erase some purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images and destroying film.

Title: Re: Kim Jong-Un's uncle is airbrushed out of television documentary repeat after being sacked by dictator nephew
Post by: SPQR on December 07, 2013, 11:16:42 pm

Quote from: SPQR on December 07, 2013, 11:12:02 pm

Stalin did this.Visual censorship was also exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government attempted to erase some purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images and destroying film.

He did this with a man named Nikolai Yezhov who was head of the NKVD. He later had this man shot.