And one of the greatest totalitarians of all times invented Photoshopping before there was a Photoshop. Go check out the picture. Bloody minds think alike:

"Stalin's bloody reign is not without certain irony. Nikolai Yezhov, the young man strolling with Stalin, is shot in 1940. It seems only fitting that when Yezhov is removed from the photograph he is replaced by the waters of the Moscow-Volga Canal. Yezhov was commissar of water transport."