Song of Russia

Song of Russia is a 1944 American war film made and distributed by MetroGoldwynMayer. The picture was credited as being directed by Gregory Ratoff, though Ratoff collapsed near the end of the fivemonth production, and was replaced by Lszl Benedek, who completed principal photography the credited screenwriters were Paul Jarrico and Richard J. Collins. The film stars Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, and Robert Benchley.

The positive portrayal of the Soviet Union in the film is clearly linked to the wartime alliance of the Soviet Union and the U.S.After the end of the Second World War and the outbreak of the Cold War, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee HUAC cited Song of Russia as one of the three noted examples of proSoviet propaganda films made by Hollywood, the others being Warner Brothers Mission to Moscow and RKOs The North Star. This assertion was supported by the Russianborn procapitalist and antiCommunist writer Ayn Rand, who was specifically asked by a HUAC investigator to see the film and provide an expert opinion on it. Ayn Rand, in her 1947 testimony before the HUAC, cited Song of Russia as an example of Communist propaganda in the Hollywood motion pictureindustry, depicting an idealized Soviet Union with freedom and comfort that never existed in the real Soviet Union. ........

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