So, it has to be admitted that there’s no strong, direct evidence for it. The main argument in that thread is that he’s supposed to have some scarring, but none of the other photos from the time period show them either, so the guy just concludes they all must’ve been edited.
And yes, the look is somewhat different from the other photos, mainly the eyes, more widely open than on the other pics. But people can hold different facial expressions…
Source? If you don’t provide any I’m going to assume it’s propaganda/cope.
I mean they’re the same group that released these images of Lenin, were they also doctored?
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/46123/when-did-josef-wissarionowitsch-become-sexy-stalin
Wow, solid. Thanks for following up
Not even ascribing any value judgments to damage done by a childhood disease. I just wanted to see how the photos were changed
So, it has to be admitted that there’s no strong, direct evidence for it. The main argument in that thread is that he’s supposed to have some scarring, but none of the other photos from the time period show them either, so the guy just concludes they all must’ve been edited.
And yes, the look is somewhat different from the other photos, mainly the eyes, more widely open than on the other pics. But people can hold different facial expressions…
I mean, ok. You can choose to believe in sexy Stalin if you want. ¯\(ツ)/¯
It’s not going to make much of a difference for me either way, I don’t like people just because they’re sexy.
You dropped an arm there, btw, here you go: \
Make sure you reinforce it this time, type it like this:
\\Thanks for the arm tip, I always forget. Have a keyboard shortcut in my phone for that guy, haha.
Now his arms are short, wtf 😓
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯Turns out it takes three slashes, one has to block the underscores from italicising the middle
Ok sorry but that’s kind of hilarious
It’s not even a bit. They just do that
asking for a source(s) to back up a claim is perfectly reasonable thing to do, .ml user or notoops conflated you with the original poster of the main comment sorry
You hate Malaysians or something?