You keep hearing people invoke George Orwell when talking about propaganda being evil, but the works of Orwell have actually served as propaganda themselves. As we've told you before, the CIA were big fans of Animal Farm and covertly funded a movie adaptation in 1954. Incidentally, the movie ends quite differently from the book. Rather than the animals being forever trapped by their Boarshevik oppressors, they get help from outside animals and stage a second revolution, this one against the pigs.
If that revised ending was supposed to foment real-world revolutions against communist governments, it didn't stand much of a chance of reaching its target audience. American and British movies had a lot of hurdles to clear before getting over the iron curtain. The way films worked at the time, the US would send over a collection of films annually, and then the Soviet government would pick a small selection of them to distribute. Obviously, they wouldn't approve any explicitly anti-Soviet stories.
