Stalin’s Inspiration for State Propaganda: Walt Disney

February 5th, 2007

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

Via: Los Angeles Times:

“After the Bolshevik Revolution, about 200,000 [Communist] party members inherited a land mass of mostly illiterate people,” said Borsten. “Lenin said film was the best media for propaganda. Within the film genre, animation was by far the easiest way to say what was bad and what was good.”

Joseph Stalin, who succeeded Lenin, ordered the building of the state-run animation studio after becoming enamored with a Walt Disney film festival held in Moscow.

Related: Animated Soviet Propaganda 4 DVD Box Set with English Subtitles

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