In the old Soviet Union, home of the Great Socialist Utopia, inconvenient history was often airbrushed out of existence in order to preserve the image of the rulers. Trotsky too troublesome? A little bit of photographic erasure and presto; problem solved. Wlady Pleszczynski writes that the same historical revision is now at work in Hollywood, where a Major Motion Picture starring Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood has mysteriously disappeared.
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