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Handsome young lad isn't he? That's his true skin:
In 1884, Stalin (age 7) contracted smallpox, which left him with facial pock marks for the rest of his life.
In the wildly reproduced image taken in 1922, Stalin took photo editing to new heights in his portrait with Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR. The two appear friendly, intimating that Stalin is the heir apparent.
During the 1930s the retouching went from the somewhat innocent act of blurring facial imperfections to the pernicious practice of falsifying reality.