Pro-Stalin Film: “Mission to Moscow”
By David Beito • Friday September 19, 2008 9:50 AM PDT • 2 Comments
In this short clip from the notorious, pro-Stalin film from 1943, “Mission to Moscow,” Walter Huston, playing the American ambassador, Joseph E. Davies, smears pre-war non-interventionists, defends the Soviet invasion of Finland, and depicts the Soviets as peace-loving.
Apparently, Davies was not a typical fellow traveler. According to Soviet archives, he purchased art at discount prices that had been confiscated from purge victims.
I am not too familiar with the Soviet era and subsequently the cold war. I had watched this film “Mission to Moscow” and accepted all accounts of it as true and factual.
Well I have to revisit this video and see it from a new perspective now...
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