Aleksa Dundic

In the mid-1950s, amidst the Cold War tensions, the Soviet Union embarked on a campaign to win the hearts and minds of the global public. This endeavour was reflected in the increased number of high-budget film co-productions, even with countries that had not been particularly friendly to the Soviets in the recent past, such as Yugoslavia during the Tito-Stalin split. This political event led to the "memory holing"…