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Stalin's surprising obsession with Hollywood Westerns
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Nothing screams communist dictatorship quite like an obsession with rugged American capitalism. Joseph Stalin was a massive fan of Hollywood Westerns. He would order his private translator to dub the dialogue live while he and his terrified politburo watched John Wayne shoot up the frontier. He loved the movies, but still regularly tried to have the actors assassinated.
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