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TIL: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin commissioned Sergei Eisenstein to make his two-part epic film "Ivan the Terrible". Part I he loved, but Part II he disliked so immensely that he banned it. There was supposed to be a Part III, which would never be made.

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