Boshikov, Stalin's Film Curator

Stalin's obsession with cinema seemed to warp his view of reality. He insisted on taxing the USSR's peasantry in the middle of a horrific famine. One film that he watched repeatedly was about a pirate who stole a bunch of gold and then murdered all of his co-pierts so he could keep it for himself. Many of the movies that Stalin picked came with horrifying undertones for his colleagues.