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...army major in 1921 when he seized power from the corrupt Qajar dynasty. Harsh and intractable, Reza Shah was unable to cope with the world powers that interfered in Persian affairs after oil was discovered. Finally, in 1941, on the ground that he had become dangerously friendly with the Hitler regime, Reza Shah was packed off to exile in South Africa by the British and Russians. The throne passed to his shy, diffident 22-year...
...That Hitler and Stalin were doing...
...ward off any attempt at conquest. The film takes place in 1242, when combined Russian armies under the leadership of Prince Alexander Nevsky, defeated the invading German force. Eisenstein uses these events in a less than subtle allegory about what would happen in the event of an attack by Hitler on the Soviet Union. Although the characters are pure stereotypes--Nevsky is a traditional military-hero figure and all the Germans are portrayed in a demonic light--one can gauge the depth of fear present in the U.S.S.R. of 1938 by watching Eisenstein flexing Russia's muscles...
...Nevsky speaks in triumph to a mass of Russians who have assembled to celebrate their victory and pay him tribute. In his address he makes a plea for preparedness, a plea which Stalin and the Soviet leadership found themselves unable or unwilling to heed. In the context of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, which took place less than a year after the film was released, Alexander Nevsky must have seemed, to those who originally saw it, a meaningless film. To our good fortune, later historical events have made the movie, for all its flaws, anything but meaningless...
Inwagen said of the second letter, "One could no more reply to it than one could reply to a Hitler speech or a tub-thumping backwoods revivalist sermon...