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    AndyJWest's Avatar Senior Member
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    The concern here is that someone has airbrushed his cigar out. It's a fact of history that he smoked cigars.

    Stalin and his regime were famous for airbrushing out history to suit their politics.
    Non sequitur (logic): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_%28logic%29

    Or are you suggesting 'The Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience' is run by a Stalinist regime?
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    MB_Avro_UK's Avatar Senior Member
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    Originally posted by AndyJWest:
    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> The concern here is that someone has airbrushed his cigar out. It's a fact of history that he smoked cigars.

    Stalin and his regime were famous for airbrushing out history to suit their politics.
    Non sequitur (logic): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_%28logic%29

    Or are you suggesting 'The Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience' is run by a Stalinist regime? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

    Yawn.....
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    It is a terrible edit, for one thing. Churchill wouldn't approve of the deceit either.

    Nothing wrong with an edit in the correct context though :-)

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    I'm most curious about who did the photoshopping in the first place and why.

    Of course, it's not like no one's edited Winnie's pictures before...

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    German propaganda poster:


    <span class="ev_code_yellow">Oh, noes! He's smoking a cigar!</span>
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    As with anything these days there is an academic article on the matter ...


    http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/13/1/3.full
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    This entire thread cracks me up

    For the record, airbrushing out history, be it Churchil's or the Beetle's cigars or Jesus' cup of wine during the prohibition, is idiocy.
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    Originally posted by ROXunreal:
    This entire thread cracks me up

    For the record, airbrushing out history, be it Churchil's or the Beetle's cigars or Jesus' cup of wine during the prohibition, is idiocy.
    Agree 100%.
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    Shocking falsification of world history: French president Sarkozy's brushed out fat.

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    air brushing out "unpleasing un-PC facts" on any historical photo is a very slippery slope my friends.

    YOU may know that Churchill was a fat drunken cigar smoking politician that somehow managed to save Britain in ww 2 but later generations more then likely will not.

    It also does a complete disservice to who the man really was. A human being with human frailties.
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    probably seen as promoting smoking big fat cigars, having whiskey before lunch and half a bottle of champagne for lunch.

    tbf we brits do need this kind of subliminal message...
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