Letter to Comrade Choumiatsky
11 January 1935
Greetings and best wishes to the workers of the Soviet cinema on its glorious fifteenth anniversary.
The cinema, in the hands of Soviet power constitutes an inestimable force.
Possessing exceptional possibilities of cultural influence on the
masses, the cinema helps the working class and its party to educate the
workers in the spirit of socialism, to organize the masses in the
struggle for socialism, to heighten their sense of culture and
political awareness.
The Soviet power awaits more successes from you; new films glorifying,
as did Tchapvaiev, the grandeur of historical achievements in the
struggle of the workers and peasants for power in the Soviet Union,
mobilizing them in order to accomplish new tasks and reviewing not only
the successes but also pointing out the difficulties in socialist
construction.
The Soviet power awaits from you a courageous investigation by your
teachers in the new fields of art, into this most important sphere of
art (Lenin) which above all reflects the character of the masses.
J. Stalin
Pravda
11 January 1935
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