Showing posts with label Olga Shirnina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olga Shirnina. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

The Amazing Stupidity of Social Media Censorship

Olga Shirnina, a photo colorist, had her Facebook account suspended for three days — for posting a colorized version of Evgenei Khaldei’s iconic photo of Soviet soldiers raising their flag above the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945.



As Station Gossip reports, "her appeal against the decision was rejected and she was able to use her account with more than 20,000 followers only after waiting three days, then sending a scan of her driver’s license, which Facebook requested to confirm her identity."

But the good news is that none of of the social media companies have yet seen fit to ban this picture of the worst of the Soviet Commie Killers: Josef Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin (wearing glasses), Kliment Voroshilov and Lazar Kaganovich (left to right) responsible for, among other atrocities of the 1940 execution of 22,000 Polish military officers, policemen, and academics (the Katyn massacre).