Censorship of images in the Soviet Union curtailed access to pornography, which was specifically prohibited by Soviet law. Visual censorship was also exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government attempted to erase some purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images and destroying film.
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