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September 2, 2012

Charlie Chaplin was labelled a Communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s. He would not return to the United States until 1972.

Filed under Charlie Chaplin Red Scare THE RED SCARE IS ALWAYS THERE communism communist Cooke Quote Chaplin history of film History

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