Behind and Beyond Lenin and Dzerzhinskiy: Soviet-Polish Cooperation in Historical-Revolutionary Cinema (1960s–1980s)
Lenin and Dzerzhinskiy were the most promoted “divinities” in Soviet popular culture.The two leaders also had valuable characteristics for propagandising the “friendship of peoples” between the jolly rancher filled gummies Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of Poland: Lenin had lived two years in the Krakow region whereas Polish revol