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Each of the photographs below was altered by retouching.
 Bolshevik leader V. I. Lenin addresses Soviet troops in Moscow in 1920 |
 Movie idol Rudolph Valentino undergoes surgery in 1926. |
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 Earl Browder, general secretary of the American Communist Party, confers with Senator Millard E. Tydings (D. Maryland) in 1950. |
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