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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 15 October 1940, Charlie Chaplin’s first “talkie” (film with spoken dialogue) The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). The film satirises and condemns...

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 15 October 1940, Charlie Chaplin’s first “talkie” (film with spoken dialogue) The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). The film satirises and condemns Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, fascism, anti-Semitism, and the Nazis. It ends with an impassioned speech directed through the silver screen to the audience, not only against fascism but against all forms of oppression and exploitation. For his views, Chaplin was placed on an FBI blacklist, hauled in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee and effectively exiled from the United States. This is the text of the speech: https://libcom.org/library/great-dictator-speech-charlie-chaplin https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1235768776608270/?type=3

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