Relating to post #13 where I edited someone out of a photo:
Paul told me about this:
After Joseph Stalin rose to power in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and became Soviet leader, he initiated a number of purges that eliminated perceived enemies. At first, a purge meant expulsion from the Communist Party, but after the Great Purge in the 1930s members were arrested, imprisoned, sent to gulags or to internal exile in Siberia, or executed. The Soviet government attempted to erase some purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images, destroying film, and in the most extreme cases, killing off entire families.
To get rid of someone out of a photo is quite extreme, denying they were ever there or in this case ever existed.
Being forgetful and not remembering someone, or your brain completely wiping the from your memory are two very different things that can say a lot about your relationship with the person or the state you were in when you met them.
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