What makes this story even less plausible is that this movie never had a wide release [1]. Very few people would see it. After the WW2 the USSR got a lot "trop

What makes this story even less plausible is that this movie never had a wide release [1]. Very few people would see it. After the WW2 the USSR got a lot "trophy" movies from Germany. Soviet censors selected a bunch of them for a wide release. These movies were dubbed. Another subset of these movies was approved for literally "closed screenings". This subset was subtitled. Here is a copy of CP decree from August 1948 [2] (Use Google Translate) "1. Permit the USSR Ministry of Cinematography to release the following 50 foreign films from the trophy fund: ... b) on a closed screen: "Notre Dame Cathedral", "Les Misérables", The Jew Suess, The Prince and the Pauper, The Grapes of Wrath, ..." [1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D1%8B,_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%89%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%B2_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82_%D0%B2_1948_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B1... [2] http://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/191477-postanovlenie-politbyuro-tsk-vkp-b-o-vypuske-na-ekran-zagranichnyh-kinofilmov-iz-trofeynogo-fonda-31-avgusta-1948-g http://docs.historyrussia.org/ru/nodes/191477-postanovlenie-...