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[Michael Berry]

This reminds me that in the sixties there was an official British magazine in Russian, which rather insensitively was called Angliya. The first issue contained a photo of the heads of state of the Commonwealth but careful study of the photo reveals that there is one less face than there are pairs of feet - South Africa had left the Commonwealth since the last Commonwealth Conference - and they had managed to find a photo which failed to show him...Manipulation of images was not a monopoly of the Soviet Union.

Mike Berry
Honorary Senior Research Fellow,
Centre for Russian and East European Studies,
University of Birmingham,
Birmingham B15 2TT


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