Wasn’t Chaplin a Commie?
He was capitalist enough to open his own movie studio partnered with other big box office stars.
I don’t know that Allied Artists shared equal pay between the producer, actors, and costumers, or grip.
To some people, yes.
When forced to leave America he went to Switzerland not Russia. That sounds like a guy who has money going somewhere where he likes the banks not like a communist. I am guessing.