Bugün öğrendim ki: Stalin, Charlie Chaplin filmlerini sevdi ve hatta City Lights'ın son sahnesinde ağladı, ancak The Great Dictator'ın SSCB'de gösterilmesini yasakladı. Görünüşe göre Stalin, diktatör Adenoid Hynkel'in imajının, Hitler'e değil, kendisine istenmeyen bir karşılaştırma getirmesinden korkuyordu.

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Global Look Press, Getty Images During Stalin's rule, foreign movies in the USSR faced strict censorship, and most were never seen by the Soviet public. Stalin himself adored foreign movies and would watch them in his private cinema. What 'blockbusters' did he love most, and why? In “The Death of Stalin” (2017), the fearsome Soviet leader forces his inner circle (Beria, Khrushchev, Malenkov, and Molotov) to sit through a screening of John Ford's 'Stagecoach' (1939). This episode, while strange at first sight, is actually historically accurate. ![Iosif Stalin with his son Vasiliy and daughter Svetlana, the 1930s. ]() Iosif Stalin with his son Vasiliy and daughter Svetlana, the 1930s. Getty Images In each of Stalin's residences, a home cinema was installed. Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's daughter, recalled that the Kremlin had a private cinema “in the former winter garden, connected to the Kremlin Palace by passages”. “I order you to allow me to go to the cinema, and you shall ask for “Chapaev” and some American comedy to be put on,” an 8-year old Svetlana wrote to Stalin in a letter, making plans for a weekend with father. With the inner circle, his “screenings” would start no earlier than 9 pm, and finished at 2-3 am Stalin always sat in the first row.