“I remember all too well other pro-Soviet Hollywood propaganda during WWII.”
Weren’t those made by a virtual FDR fiat/commission? What would have been the consequence of making films disparaging the ally at that time.
I was looking at the Chicago Tribune Archives recently back to the 1940s when they carried Hedda Hopper’s column. She claimed ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ was anti-American propaganda intended to make the U.S. system look corrupt and took special exception to the innocuous 1944 Chopin biopic ‘A Song to Remember’. Her objection was that they made Chopin mouth various revolutionary (read Bolshevik) desires about overthrowing the Tzar whereas the historical Chopin was a nobleman’s son. The fact was that he hated what the Russians were doing to Poland hence his anti-Tzarist feelings.
While Russia was a wartime "ally," FDR remained nearly terminally obtuse about Communism, Stalin and Soviet aims. He was influenced by the Communists and Fellow Travelers who riddled his administration. Hollywood had more than its share as well. If you choose to sugar-coat those facts I won't waste a lot more time trying to argue with you.