now a captain - photo taken later in the war

Sniper Zaitsev

Another revealing example of Soviet photo manipulation was in the case of Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the  NKVD,  seen on the left of  Stalin in the first photo,  but was edited out of the image after his execution in 1940, as shown in the second photo.

Soviet Photo Manipulation -- Stalin and Yezhov

Petr Goncharov,born in Stalingrad and defended his city Stalingrad during the battle as a sniper,Here Petr is shown at Donbass 1944. He was awarded Hero of USSR