It was easy to hate the enemy but difficult to love all our allies when we were teamed with the Soviet Union in World War II. So in 1943 brave major studio Warner Bros. released “Mission to Moscow,” based on Amb. Joseph Davies book of the same name. It’s fascinating war propaganda showing a train station in Germany where prisoners await transfer to the labor camps contrasted with Moscow where there’s plenty of caviar, fun and military hardware. An actor portrays Stalin as a genteel soul. The actual diplomat Davies makes a disclaimer at the start that he is pro capitalism but we can’t let Russia’s assets fall into Nazi hands. At this time there was considerable anti-communist, anti-Stalin sentiment amongst the news media and politicians in the U.S. Walter Huston portrays Davies and Michael Curtiz is the director. A lobby poster from the film was part of the Rominov display at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis.
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