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Furtseva used all her official power to destroy
Babochkin. She banned the play and restricted the world-famous actor, known as Chapayev, from public performances. Furtseva personally ordered that all film studios and drama companies of the USSR should refuse him any jobs, keeping him practically
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and helped lift their spirits with his performances, while they were struggling to survive. After the war he started a teaching career at the Moscow State Film
Institute (VGIK). In 1952 Babochkin became artistic director of the Moscow Drama Theater named after Pushkin. There he invited his old
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in Moscow. From 1946 to 1975 he also taught an acting class at State Film
Institute (VGIK), where he became a professor in 1966. In his acting career spanning over 55 years, Babochkin played over 200 roles on stage and 25 roles in movies and on television, but his role as
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censorship, which was under the control of
Furtseva, spared no effort in taming the famous actor and manipulating his star power. After that, Babochkin's acting career was restricted to playing only positive, exemplary Soviet characters.
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and director. Boris
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