Pictures that Lie

The image I chose was called "Trotsky's Elimination Image." I'm fairly ignorant of what exactly one can do to photos, but in this image, Communist party officials have "erased" Trotsky after he lost the party's favor. Somehow, the Soviets erased Trotsky's image and added a dark spot so that maybe people would not notice that he had been in the original picture. I think this is very harmful becuase this was used as yet another piece of propaganda in the Soviet era. The Soviet officials were interested in rewriting the past, and with the ability to edit pictures, they could give "proof" of their interpretation of past events.