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After the 20th Party Congress and Khrechev's denunciation of Stalin, propaganda in films began to decline, albeit slowly. Communist Party leaders understood that Stalinist-era bombastic propaganda was too primitive and thus ineffective. After Stalin's death and Khrechev's denuciation, attitudes in arts began to change.
We suspect that there that the Khrechev thaw hadened again after he was outsted (1964), but our infornation at this time is limited. The general trend was to gradually reduce the ideological content of Soviet Films. Especially by the 1970s and 80s Soviet children (and not only children) movies were totally split up from the ideology. Certainly, there were movies about revolution and civil war, where "red" were always "good boys" and "white" - "bad boys", but even such films became a usual adventure films, so beloved with all children in all countries, with pursuits, fights, secrets and so on (like cowboys and indinans movies in America). And movies about present-day life, like "Adventures of a small Daddy", were totally free from ideology. HBC is unsure that propaganda entirely disappeared from late-Soviet era films, but there were certainly films made wihout ideological content and the ideological content was certainly more nuanced. A factor here was the growing influence of non-Russians and film stufios in the various republics, especially in the Baltics.
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