June 16, 2010

Spot the difference: How today’s airbrushing PC censors decided Churchill could do without his cigar

 

By Beth Hale

 

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LONDON, 15 June 2010 (Daily Mail) The face is instantly familiar, the two-fingered salute unmistakable.

 

But are these actually the same photograph of Sir Winston Churchill?

In the original photograph the war leader has his cigar gripped firmly in the corner of his mouth.

But in the other image – currently greeting visitors to a London museum – his favourite smoke has been digitally extinguished.

 

 

It seems the man who steered Britain through the most dangerous period of its recent history may have fallen victim to the modern curse of political correctness.

 

Last night the question of who removed the cigar and when was something of a mystery.

 

The Winston Churchill’s Britain At War Experience, in South-East London, confessed to being astonished to discover that the image may have been doctored.

 

Read the entire article here at the Mail Online.

 

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