9-11 rememberance..

I will hold off another day my Wile E. Coyote post.   I found out this morning, that the Patriots Riders were doing a memorial run,show for the Americans that died on 9-11 , 2001.  Since I am a member, I participated.  Nothing like going from work to this ceremony.  I am tired....and I have scouts, tuba practice for my son and work tonight.   But I am honor bound to render honors to those that died on that day, my personal code of honor expects no less.  My bit of discomfort is nothing in comparison.

 We formed up and at each time exactly5 minutes  before  a plane crashed, we would form up, the police and Fire Dept would block the main intersection.  We had NJROTC with the flag, the Marine Corp association with the rifles, and we would form a square and a Police Officer would read off the flight number, what it hit, the number of Americans that got killed and they would play the National Anthem, followed by a 21 gun salute, then taps.  We would render honors, then we would retire back to our assembly area and we would do it a total of 4 times.  In honor of each plane.   I should have taken my son out of school for this, then took him to school afterwards.  They do this every year so next year I will do the same thing.   I will plan better.

Honor them, Never Forget

What has me concerned is the the present political leadership if we got attacked again, would view it with barely masked glee, they would view it as retribution for any past sins that America has in their eyes and it would lessen us and that is something that they would enjoy.

     May God bless this nation and all of those that who serve.

Stuff at work and working a post...

I was hoping to get my next installment up of cartoon characters but had too much going on, and there is a LOT of material for this character....

    This is one of my favorite characters...soo much that I do have a poster my best friend gave me:

  This is a quick shot of the pic( ain't smart phones great?)  I will take a better pic tomorrow so I can use it in the post I am working on.
     Well speaking of work, I am almost done with a project I started at work.
    As those know me know that I work in the aviation field, well I have a tool box that followed me from Ford Motor company and I took it to work where I am at now.  I will show a pic of what it looks like when I first had it at work.

Looks kinda rough...Since I cobbled it together from junk that was lying around at Ford, I can't complain....especially since I didn't pay for it.   Any who knows mechanics, know how important toolboxes are, especially since we buy the tools we use and a good toolbox is important...and is a mark of your personality.

     Here is what it started to look like last year when I decided to change the tool box from the eyesore it was to something different.

Last year I was working a lot of overtime working the RON's(Remain overnights)  and we would have a bit of "downtime" waiting for the airplane to come in.  Rather than sit and swill coffee( nothing wrong with that) I decided to to a toolbox makeover.   I straightened out some of the damage, sanded it down to bare metal and painted it.

This is what it looked like after I was done last year.   Went from being the worst looking toolbox in the hanger, to looking not so bad.
     Well This year I decided to build a "Side box" rather than buy one.  Using scrap metal I started fabricating this...

   It was more complicated that I thought it would be and when you are using yourself and "Clico's" to hold metal together while you figured out and re-figured out how you would build a box.

   This took me over a month, I would sneak in a few minutes here and there and cut short a lunch to work on it and it went through several screwups revisions to the original design.  This is what it looked like while I was working on it....

    I finally got it mostly done, with a few little things to finish out the project...I may try today..depends on the workload to finish it up

It is heavy, I used quite a bit of "Alclad" Aluminum T-7075-T6 .063 thick or greater.  Rivits and Highloks.  I am overall pleased with it.  I figured out a few things I could have done differently...but this project was bigger than I figured it would be. 
     I still gotta build a "push" handle on it, but I have to see what shows up in the scrap bin for me to use......

"Mising A Grate Hewmin"

I am working on a post, but I have Scout Meeting followed by work.  so I may not get the post in until tomorrow after I come in from work.  My Mondays and Tuesdays are rough like that.  I saw this from Mike Lucavich, a political cartoonist for the local fishwrapper.  he is a liberal and his political cartoons reflect this, but his homage cartoons are second to none.  The ones from 9-11 and when major figures are excellent.

Monday Music" Cars" by Gary Numan and some sad news. Truett Cathy crosses beyond the rim

This will be a longer post than a normal Monday Music post.  I just found out that Truett Cathy the founder of Chic-Fil-a just crossed beyond the rim.  I have a bit of history with Truett Cathy and Chic-Fil-a.  I used to work at the Ford Motor Plant Atlanta Assembly lets just say in excess of 10+ years and I would make regular trips to the original Chic-Fil-a  in Hapeville Georgia during work.  Chic-Fil-A has supported Fords and Atlanta Assembly since our inception.  Atlanta Assembly opened in 1947 and Chic-Fil-A opened up in 1946 so we both grew together.   Truett had stated many times that Chic-Fil-a owed its success to the Ford Plant. 
     When the Plant closed in October 27th 2006, the last Taurus we built was given to him from the grateful employees of Atlanta Assembly Plant.   The Pics are from my "stash" of photo's.

Chic-Fil-A Founder Truett Cathy

Here he is seeing "his" car for the first time.

That is Truett Again with Dale Wishnousky the Plant Manager.

"His Taurus"

 Truett's Taurus going down the Line on the way to the ceremony

Truett's Taurus during the Build Process

This is the closeup of the pic on the hood.  the employees started signing their names on the bumper after this pic was taken...and yes mine is there also. 

 Truett Cathy was well respected, his little restaurant became a success that few have equaled.  Truett believed in putting God first, then family.  His restaurants don't open on Sunday.  He firmly believes that Sunday is a day of rest to spend time with family and God.  His work ethic and moral courage is legendary.  Chic-Fil-A has a reputation that few "fast food" restaurants have.  People will pay a bit more money for a good meal with quality ingredients from a reputable place of business.

   From us Ford people, Truett Cathy will be missed.

   I decided to go with "cars from Gary Numan.  I had something else in mind until I heard the news of Truett's passing, so I went with "Cars" because,  well to me it made sense.

    

"Cars" is a 1979 song by UK artist Gary Numan, and was released as a single from the album The Pleasure Principle. It reached the top of the charts in several countries, and today is considered a new wave staple. In the UK charts, it reached number 1 in 1979, and in 1980 hit number 1 in Canada two weeks running on the RPM national singles chart and rose to number 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Though Numan had a string of hits in the UK, "Cars" was his only US Top 40. It debuted on the American Top 40 on 29 March 1980, and spent a total of 17 weeks in the AT40. "Cars" was released under the 'Atco' label, with the catalog number of 7211.

The song was the first release credited solely to Gary Numan after he dropped the band name Tubeway Army, under which name he had released four singles and two LPs, including the number one UK hit "Are 'Friends' Electric?", and its parent album, Replicas. Musically, the new song was somewhat lighter and more pop-oriented than its predecessors, Numan later conceding that he had chart success in mind: "This was the first time I had written a song with the intention of 'maybe it could be a hit single'; I was writing this before 'Are "Friends" Electric?' happened."
    
"Cars" is based on two musical sections: a verse/instrumental break and a bridge. The recording features a conventional rock rhythm section of bass guitar and drums, although the rest of the instruments used are analog synthesizers, principally the Minimoog (augmenting the song's recognisable bass riff) and the Polymoog keyboard, providing austere synthetic string lines over the bass riff. The bridge section also includes a tambourine part. Numan's vocal part is sung in an almost expressionless, robotic style. There is no "chorus" as such.
According to Numan, the song's lyrics were inspired by an incident of road rage:

“

I was in traffic in London once and had a problem with some people in front. They tried to beat me up and get me out of the car. I locked the doors and eventually drove up on the pavement and got away from them. It's kind of to do with that. It explains how you can feel safe inside a car in the modern world... When you're in it, your whole mentality is different... It's like your own little personal empire with four wheels on it.

”

The music video featured Numan's then-current backing band, including Billy Currie from the band Ultravox, though he had not actually played on the recording of "Cars". Towards the end of the video, a multitude of Gary Numans are depicted "driving" (in a standing position, holding an imaginary steering wheel) along a Polymoog keyboard.

The original UK single was released in August 1979, backed with a non-album instrumental track called "Asylum". The US B-side was "Metal", from The Pleasure Principle album. The track has been a UK Top 20 hit for Numan in 3 successive decades: on its original release in 1979 (making number 1); in 1987 as the 'E Reg Model' remix (making number 16); and again in 1996 following its use in an advertisement for Carling Premier beer (number 17). Numan has regularly performed the song on stage since its original release and it appears on all but one of his official live albums to date.

Soviet photo manipulations from WWII

The Soviets are master of photo manipulations, this is a trait that they first used before WWII and brought to an art form during the "Great Patriotic War".  When I was patrolling the 1K zone...Every G.I in Germany knew what this meant...

You couldn't go past this point without permission, and in the VII corp of operation in southern Germany it was the 2nd ACR.  To operate inside the 1K zone required special training, I even now still remember what "Brass Monkey" means.   Well one of the thing they told us was "Never wave or make any hand gestures at all near when you are being observed by the VoPo's

The East Germans would take your picture....with very good camera's..get your name off your uniform, make some minor alterations to your wave basically removing several fingers leaving 1 prominent finger, then mail that picture to SACEUR, and you heard the old adage " Crap rolls downhill...well it is a long way from Brussels to the B.F.E border camp you are staying at and it will build up speed.  So we made no gestures of any kind.   I did enjoy the border duty, although we knew that we were the speed bumps for 8th Guards Army as they rolled through the Fulda Gap.

   But I digress, there was a method to this post...It is the use of photo deception...and the Soviets are very good at it.   The Soviets used photo's to demonize and dehumanize their opponents...back then it was the Germans.  I ran across these pictures and no background data, so I had to do a bit of research to go with the pictures.   Most of these pictures were captured in film rolls or were completed photo taken by NKVD from different sources.

Looks like a German was going to shoot some female Soviet prisoners..The Soviets used females on their combat units, for them it was total war.  This pic was designed to incite anger in the people who would see these pics.

The Actual Photo...

Here is another.....

Concentration Camp.....Soviet Style.....

The Actual Photo....Not as inflammatory...

This Picture looks bad...they had called "hanging a Nurse" Noticed the area where it looks like she was stripped.....Again to antagonize.

Well here was the actual photo.  When the Germans first crossed into the Ukraine area of the Soviet Union, they were welcomed as liberators...the Ukrainians hadn't forgotten the pograms that Stalin had done in the 1930's where whole villages were wiped out due to starvation and resettlements.  Then the SS went in after the regular German army and basically pissed off the locals with their "Untermensch" or "inferiors" policies as decreed by the Nazi Party.

Here is another depicting the Germans hanging somebody's mom....Again designed to inflame the emotions.

The actual picture, I believe this person was either addressing a group or getting an award.

This looks like a bunch of Germans had hung the people of a collective and stole all their livestock, and the picture shows them happy about it....again designed to inflame and demonize.  if you look closely, you can see the crop marks...especially after seeing the original.

This is the origional.  Yes the Germans did "forage" the livestock.....All armies did....it wasn't anything endemic to the Germans.    I remember a phrase when I was a "G.I"

   " We would souvenir everything long time....."

This one was also called "Hanging a Nurse"  This was designed to inflame the Russian Military against the Germans, and demonize and dehumanize them.  Making it easier to kill them.   "Urra Stalina"   War is good.   This also made it brutal on the German civilians that had to deal with the Red Army,   There are 3 Monuments outside Berlin that is dedicated to the Red Army that took the city in 1945.  The Germans for many years called the monuments " the tombs of the unknown rapists".

Here is the actual picture.....not bad at all, and if you compare it to the one preceding it, you can still see the greatcoat of the gentleman that was "whited out" on the other-side of the "tree"

    This practice continued to the fall of the Soviet union...There are pictures of people at the Kremlin with the leadership watching the annual mayday celebration, then later on those people would be in disfavor or sent to a gulag or given the "7.65 option" behind the ear, and those people would be "sanitized" from subsequent pics of the same time frame.   I remembered seeing some and if I can find them, then I will post those also.

"Michigan J. Frog" Looney Toons character...

Sorry about not getting this in sooner, I was very busy and was unable to find time in front of the computer to set this up.

     I decided to roll with this one after I mentioned this one along with Marvin the Martian.  I remembered seeing this cartoon with the guy that finds him in the process of demolishing an office building.  As a young kid, I watched a lot looney toon characters..I never had a thought of actually following the examples shown on how the Coyote or the road runner interact....Hey I will do that one next week;)

His name comes from the song "The Michigan Rag" (an original song written by Jones, Maltese, and musical director Milt Franklyn), which he sings in the cartoon. In a clip from a DVD special, Jones stated that he had come up with the name "Michigan Frog" during the 1970s and was inspired to add the "J." as a middle initial while being interviewed by a writer named Jay Cocks.
The running gag in the two-part series is that Michigan's undeniable talent is discovered by some hapless (and greedy) person who has visions of making a fortune by putting this great entertainer in front of an audience and profiting from it. He invests all his time, money, and eventually his sanity in that cause. He catches on too late that the frog will perform for him and him alone; in front of anyone else, Michigan is just a normal frog and thwarts the man's dreams of wealth. The man in the original cartoon, who discovered the frog in the cornerstone of an 1892 building under demolition, tosses Michigan and the green metal box he came in into the time capsule for the Tregoweth Brown Building, a soon-to-be dedicated skyscraper. In 2056, when a construction company (consisting of men in spacesuits) razes the building with disintegration guns, another person (very similar to the first, but bald) discovers the metal box, with Michigan still alive inside, and the process presumably repeats.

This process is an obvious homage to Ol' Rip the Horned Toad, a lizard found alive in a time capsule in 1928 after having supposedly been placed there in 1897.
Michigan has made cameos in episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Detention (as a newt that still has much of his original features, like the top hat and cane and green outside with yellow inside), more recently, as a talent show emcee in Duck Dodgers, Will and Dewitt (almost identical to his original appearance, but pink instead of green and has a kind of knit-style hat instead of a top hat), and as a statue in Baby Looney Tunes. The character can be seen in 1996's Space Jam in the crowd, and 2003's Looney Tunes: Back in Action during the cafeteria scenes. In Tiny Toons (voiced by Jeff Bennett), Michigan was a frequent "guest" at Elmyra Duff's house. In addition, Michigan appears on the cover of Leon Redbone's 1975 album, On the Track. Michigan also made a cameo appearance in an episode of The Oblongs, as well as in the 2005 film Son of the Mask.
The identity of the singer who voiced Michigan Frog's original story was unclear and has been shrouded in some degree of mystery. He was definitely not done by Warner's primary voice artist, Mel Blanc. Some identified him as Terrence Monck. The 1998 Rhino compilation Warner Bros. 75 Years of Film Music identified him as Richard Beavers. However, the Looney Tunes Golden Collection unequivocally credits the vocals to Bill Roberts, a nightclub entertainer in Los Angeles in the 1950s who had done voice work for the MGM cartoon Little 'Tinker earlier. Information in the Internet Movie Database restates what the DVD covered and adds some details.
In Another Froggy Evening, his voice was provided by Jeff McCarthy.
Michigan J. Frog made a cameo (along with Buster Bunny and Plucky Duck) as plush toy prizes in The Looney Tunes Show episode "Mr. Wiener".

Michigan J. Frog, again voiced by McCarthy, was the official mascot of The WB Television Network from its inception in 1995 until 2005. The network's first night of programming on January 11, 1995 began with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck wondering over who (which one of them) would pull the switch to launch The WB. The camera then panned over to Chuck Jones drawing Michigan on an easel; when Jones finished, Michigan leapt from the drawing to formally launch The WB.
Michigan also would usually appear before the opening of shows, informing the viewer of the TV rating. For example, before Buffy The Vampire Slayer or Angel, the frog would sing a short monologue suggesting that kids should go to bed, meaning that the show coming on would be for mature audiences only.

On July 22, 2005, Michigan's "death" was announced by WB Network Chairman Garth Ancier at a fall season preview with the terse statement "The frog is dead and buried." The head of programming for the WB Network, David Janollari, stated that "[Michigan] was a symbol that perpetuated the young teen feel of the network. That's not the image we [now] want to put out to our audience."^[3]
Various humorous obituaries for the mascot were published with details on Michigan's life and death. His dates were given as December 31, 1955 - July 22, 2005. Despite the announcement by Ancier, Michigan still appeared in some WB affiliate logos and in TV spots, such as KWBF in Little Rock, Arkansas (whose early slogan was "The Frog"; the "F" in KWBF is supposedly for "frog"), during 2006, and WBRL-CA in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Also, WMJF, a small student-run television station at Towson University just outside Baltimore, Maryland, still uses the same call letters (WMJF -Michigan J. Frog) from when the station was a WB affiliate. A neon likeness of Michigan J. Frog also adorns the facade of former WB affiliate WBNX-TV's studio complex in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

When the WB Television Network ceased broadcasting and signed off the air for the final time on September 17, 2006, a white silhouette of the Michigan appeared at the end of a montage of stars that appeared on the network during its 11-year history. When the montage ended with "Thank You", Michigan's silhouette is shown removing his top hat and bowing to thank the viewers for 11 years and bringing The WB to a close.

Monday Music U2, " New Years Day"

Yes I know that today is Tuesday...not Monday.....But Monday is a Holiday....so I am a day late....kinda like the garbage pickup...it is a day later.   I almost went with "Taking care of business" in honor of Labor day, but I decided to go with "New Years Day" by U2.  Part of the reason is because today is September 2nd.  On this day in 1939, the Germans crossed the frontier into Poland and WWI 2nd edition kicked off.  The Germans crossed with 60 divisions spearheaded by their new Panzer mechanized divisions.  Also the World War I veteran Schleswig-Holstein a training ship turned her guns on the Polish Fort near Danzig(Gdansk)and the Soviets crossed the eastern frontier a a couple of weeks later in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact the Poles were doomed.
     I decided to go with U2 and the song "New Years day" because the video uses a lot of combat camera footage from the Soviets and I though that was pretty neat.  This album got a heavy playlist on MTV, that is where I heard of it and subsequently bought the CD a few years later when I was stationed in Germany from the PX at Robinson Barracks.

The boy on the cover is Peter Rowen (brother of Bono's friend, Guggi). He also appears on the covers of Boy, Three, The Best of 1980–1990, Early Demos and many singles. Bono described the reasoning behind the cover: "Instead of putting tanks and guns on the cover, we've put a child's face. War can also be a mental thing, an emotional thing between loves. It doesn't have to be a physical thing."

    
"New Year's Day" is a song by rock band U2. It is on their 1983 album War and it was released as the album's lead single in January 1983. Written about the Polish Solidarity movement, "New Year's Day" is driven by Adam Clayton's distinctive bassline and The Edge's piano and guitar playing. It was the band's first UK hit single, peaking at no. 10, also becoming the band's first international hit, reaching for example no. 9 in Norway, no. 11 on the Dutch Top 40, no. 17 in Sweden and charting on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States (just missing the Top 50) for the first time in their career.
In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine placed the single at #435 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". This song was also included in the Pitchfork 500.
    
The lyric had its origins in a love song from Bono to his wife, but was subsequently reshaped and inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement. The bass part stemmed from bassist Adam Clayton trying to figure out what the chords to the Visage song "Fade to Grey" were.
In 1983, Bono said of the song, "It would be stupid to start drawing up battle lines, but I think the fact that 'New Year's Day' made the Top Ten indicated a disillusionment among record buyers. I don't think 'New Year's Day' was a pop single, certainly not in the way that Mickie Most might define a pop single as something that lasts three minutes and three weeks in the chart. I don't think we could have written that kind of song."
     
"New Year's Day" is U2's fifth most frequently performed live song, with The Edge switching back and forth between piano and guitar during the song. It has been a standard on every U2 tour since its debut on 1 December 1982 at the first show of the War Tour's Pre-Tour. During the 1980s, The Edge used a Fender Stratocaster to perform this song, along with a keyboard. During the 1990s and 2000s (decade), he has alternated between a Gibson Les Paul Custom and Les Paul Standard. The Les Paul the Edge used to write this song was sold for charity. Up until the Elevation Tour, Clayton normally used a chorus effect on his bass guitar for this song live. In the Top of the Pops performance, Bono is seen playing guitar.
"New Year's Day" has appeared on many of U2's concert video releases including 1983's U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky, Zoo TV: Live from Sydney, PopMart: Live from Mexico City, U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago, Live from Paris, and U2 3D.
The B-side of "New Year's Day", "Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop?)", was never performed live. However, an early version known simply as "Pete the Chop" was played at some concerts in 1980.
During the Vertigo Tour at Silesian Stadium in Poland a quite remarkable example of fan action occurred. During New Year's Day, the lower sections of the crowd waved red coloured items while other sections waved white, creating the Polish flag and stunning the band. This was repeated during the U2 360° Tour at the same venue.

    
The video was one of their first to see heavy rotation on MTV. It was filmed in Sälen, Sweden in December 1982 and directed by Meiert Avis. The band only appeared in the performance scenes of the video as it was filmed in the dead of the Swedish winter. U2 guitarist Edge revealed in the official U2 biography that the four people riding on horseback in the video that appeared to be the four U2 members were in fact four Swedish teenage girls disguised as the members of U2 riding on horseback with masks over their faces. This was done as the band were frozen from shooting the video in sub-freezing temperatures the day before. Their biography states that Bono refused to wear any headgear despite the cold weather and had a lot of trouble mouthing the lyrics. The video also features footage of Soviet troops advancing in winter during World War II.
The video made its debut UK television broadcast on Friday 31 December 1982, on the Channel 4 music programme, 'The Tube'.
U2 allowed free-of-charge use of this song in a spot prepared by the European Commission. This clip published on YouTube shows a transformation of Poland in last 20 years mixed with short scenes from today’s Warsaw seen from a perspective of a 20-year-old woman.

Stalin.... and his use of body doubles.....

I ran across this article reading another historical magazine, and figured I would expound upon it.   I knew for a long time that Stalin had employed "doubles" to guard against assassination, and to do things that he didn't want to do.  Here is a picture of Stalin visiting Berlin.

 

The truth of the matter was that this was reenactment in 1949 and that wasn't Stalin.  Stalin never went to Berlin as I understand it.  he had a fear of flying and used trains exclusively, for his meeting in Potsdam and in Yalta. 

Mikheil Gelovani

In 1938, Gelovani first portrayed Stalin in Mikheil Chiaureli's The Great Dawn. His performance won him the Order of the Red Banner of Labour on 1 February 1939 and the Stalin Prize during 1941. Afterwards, Gelovani "established a monopoly on the role of Stalin", which he continued to portray in twelve other pictures until the premier's death.Gelovani greatly resembled Stalin physically, except in his stature: he was much taller than the latter. Reportedly, he was not the premier's favorite candidate for depicting himself on screen: since he was Georgian, he mimicked Stalin's accent "to perfection". Therefore, the leader personally preferred Aleksei Dikiy, who used classic Russian pronunciation. However, Gelovani appeared in his role much more than Dikiy. According to the The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats, Gelovani had probably portrayed the same historical figure more than any other actor. When the two met, the general secretary told the actor: "you are observing me thoroughly... You do not waste time, do you?"
Soviet cinema played an important part in cultivating the leader's cult of personality: from 1937 and onward, in a gradual process, Stalin's reign was legitimized by depicting him as Vladimir Lenin's most devout follower^[ and by positively presenting historical autocrats - like in Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible.

Due to his identification with Stalin, Gelovani was barred from playing other roles in cinema; he was not allowed to depict "mere mortals." From 1942 to 1948, he was a member of the cast in the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. During World War II, the personality cult was abandoned in favor of patriotic motifs, but returned already at the war's late stages, and with greater intensity than ever after 1945: Stalin was soon credited as the sole architect of victory. In the postwar films in which he portrayed him - The Vow, The Fall of Berlin and The Unforgettable Year 1919 - Gelovani presented the leader as "a living god."
The actor was awarded three more Stalin Prizes, all of which were granted for his performances of the premier in film: in 1942 for The Defence of Tsaritsyn, in 1947 for The Vow and in 1950 for The Fall of Berlin. On 3 June 1950, he was given the title People's Artist of the USSR.
After Stalin's death in 1953, Gelovani was denied new roles in films, since he was completely identified with the character of the dead ruler. From 1953 until his death in 1956, he acted in Moscow's State Theater for Film Actors. Andreas Kilb wrote that he ended his life "a pitiful Kagemusha" of Stalin. Gelovani is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, alongside his wife Ludmila.
Following Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech in 1956, most of the pictures he appeared in as Stalin were either banned or had the relevant scenes removed.

This is a clip of the Soviet Propaganda film that was used to help create this cult of personality around Stalin as the patient father figure....despite the gulags, the NKVD terror raids and other things he did to totally subdue Russia.  it was almost a "Stockholm Syndrome". type of effect that he had.

Felix Dadaev (left) in the 1940s and the real Joseph Stalin (right).

Rumors circulated in Russia for decades that Joseph Stalin had a “twin” who replaced him during certain situations. After decades of rumors, finally Stalin’s decoy decided to talk. Felix Dadaev, a former dancer and juggler was ordered to the Kremlin to work as Stalin’s body double. For more than half a century, Dadaev remained silent, fearing a death sentence should he dare to open his mouth. But in 2008, at the age of 88, and with the apparent approval of the Putin regime, he finally came forward to write his autobiography. Dadaev’s autobiography explains that he was one of four men employed to impersonate the supreme leader, taking his place in motorcades, at rallies, on newsreel footage etc.
Dadaev was born in the Caucasian highlands of Dagestan and when his family moved to Grozny, in Chechnya, he began taking ballet lessons. When the Second World War started, he was required to fight and was so badly injured during the Soviet liberation of Grozny in 1942 that his family was told he had been killed. He was one of seven corpses delivered to a hospital, but he and another guy were still alive. Fortunately, he got better, though that “death” was the start of a strange double life. Soon his resemblance to 60-year-old Stalin (which got him teased in school) caught the eye of Soviet intelligence agents, who started using him to save the real Stalin from assassination plots and lame public ceremonies.

Even Stalin’s closest comrades couldn’t spot the imposter.

Just into his 20s, Dadaev was a great deal younger than Stalin, but make-up and the strain of war meant that he could pass as a 60-year-old. “We had all experienced so much suffering that I looked much older than I was”, Dadaev said. Trained at the personal request of Stalin, Dadaev attended rallies and meetings across Soviet Union wearing the leader’s trademark Red Army cap and heavy overcoat encrusted with medals. He watched movies and speeches of Stalin to perfect the mimicry of his movement and intonation. Some say that Dadaev, like other Stalin’s body doubles, was trained by Alexei Diky, an actor who played the role of Stalin in propaganda films.

Felix Dadaev in his military uniform.

In an age before media dominated, he didn’t have to mimic perfectly Stalin’s vocal inflections, just his look and mannerisms. And he pulled it off so well even Stalin’s closest comrades couldn’t spot the imposter. “By the time my make-up and training were complete, I was like him in every way, except perhaps my ears. They were too small”.
Interesting facts:

• Another Stalin’s body double was a man identified only as “Rashid”. Rashid so closely resembled the dictator that when he joined the army he was dismissed almost immediately. Even his facial scars nearly matched the Soviet leader’s pockmarks from a bout with smallpox. He spent two years studying with Alexei Dikiy. Rashid claimed there were other Stalin lookalikes employed by the NKVD (predecessor of KGB), although he never met any. He claimed to have heard of another Stalin double who was hired to live in the dictator’s dacha outside of Moscow in the late 1940s and 1950s when Stalin was dying. After Stalin’s death in 1953, Rashid moved to a provincial city and shaved off his mustache and gradually became bald. Yet even then the resemblance proved so striking that he often received stares on the street, they were afraid that the dictator had gone into hiding with them.
• A man who looked so much like Josef Stalin
  that he was hired to sit in for the Soviet dictator
  at meetings and banquets has died in the southern city
  of Krasnodar. He was 93. The newspaper Rabochaya Tribuna
  identified the Stalin double only as Rashid and said without
  explaining further that he died "several days ago."
  
  
  Later Rashid made a career as Stalin’s double. Officials
  at the KGB heard of his adventures at the Army recruiting office and
  eventually tracked him down. Rashid spent 2 years studying with Alexei
  Dikiy, an actor who played the role of Stalin in films. But Rashid's role was to
  play Stalin "live," at public functions such as banquets. (Was Dikiy jealous?
  Or too busy playing Stalin in the movies to play him in real life?)
  No mention is made in the obituary of the role Stalin
  played in his hiring, if any, or if Rashid was ever
  allowed to meet or study the man he was to impersonate.
  He may have been taught to impersonate by Stalin’s first impersonator,
  and by images of that impersonator on the silver screen.
  
  There are also other doubles mentioned in the obituary,
  doubles multiplying into quadruples and more. It’s not
  at all clear what the total number of Stalin’s doubles actually was (were?).
  Rashid never met with any other Stalin lookalikes except Dikiy,
  but he told of another Stalin double who was hired to live
  in the dictator's dacha outside of Moscow in the late 1940s
  and 1950s when Stalin was dying. This double filled in
  for Stalin for media events and other times when Stalin
  had to meet government functionaries and others.
   

 I was unable to find any photo's of "Rashid"

Perhaps some of the "Official" photo's of Stalin were of him...I don't know.