On the left, a 1937 photograph at the Volga dam showing, in the centre, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), and, to the right, the leader of the NKVD secret police, Nikolai Ezhov. Ezhov fell out of favour with the leader after Stalin's Great Purge, and so he was famously removed from official versions of this photograph (the version shown on the right).
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