Repressed persons were routinely removed not only from texts, but also from photos, posters and paintings.

A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Цензура в СССР]]; see its history for attribution. The off-screen text at the end of the film reads, "He could have become a worker…grown wheat and adorned the earth with gardens.It was the practice of libraries in the Soviet Union to restrict access to back issues of journals and newspapers more than three years old. In this manner, a movie named The Diamond Arm was saved after the director, Leonid Gaidai, intentionally included a nuclear explosion at the end of the film. The centrality of Stalin in film censorship lasted to his death in 1953, but the strictness of Soviet censorship did not survive him. Defeats of the Red Army in literature were forbidden, as were depictions of trepidation in Soviet military characters.

However, movies which Stalin thought did not cohere with socialist realism were denied being released to the public; The Party Card was not such a film.Translations of foreign publications were often produced in a truncated form, accompanied with extensive corrective footnotes. An in depth and personal look at the extreme measures that Silicon Valley giants and social media corporations will take to deplatform and deperson individuals they don't like.