The Big Lie (1951) The Big Lie was a 1951 anti-communist propaganda film produced by the US Army.

The Big Lie (1951)
The Big Lie was a 1951 anti-communist propaganda film produced by the US Army.

It aimed to portray the Soviet Union as an aggressive totalitarian empire much like the recently-defeated Nazi Germany, and indeed begins with a quote by Adolf Hitler: "The great masses will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one".

The film links the communist and Nazi ideologies by showing scenes of forced labor, sham elections, kangaroo courts and parades held by the armed forces or by regime-controlled youth organizations, in each case showing an example from Nazi Germany followed by another example from the Soviet Union.