1931 Politburo resolution on the film "Long Live Mexico!"
85 years ago, on December 4, 1931, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks adopted a resolution that Amtorg officials who "squandered 25 thousand dollars in favor of Sergei Eisenstein, who deserted from the USSR" should be punished. It was about financing a film about the Mexican Revolution, which Eisenstein was going to shoot. In 1932, at the request of Stalin, the director was forced to return from Mexico to the USSR. Film Long Live Mexico!