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The final speech of the film has been sampled in more than 40 songs,<ref>{{cite web |title=Final Speech |url=https://www.whosampled.com/movie/The-Great-Dictator/Final-Speech/ |website=Whosampled |access-date=28 March 2024}}</ref> artists such as [[Coldplay]] and [[U2]] have played the speech during live shows,<ref>{{Cite web | title = U2 Concert Intro | url = https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/infos/754-U2-Concert-Intro | website = charliechaplin.com | access-date=2021-12-06}}</ref> and coffee company [[Lavazza]] used it in a television advertisement.<ref>{{cite web | title=Lavazza channels the 80-year-old words of Charlie Chaplin | url=https://thesavvyscreener.com/2020/08/19/lavazza-charlie-chaplin/ | publisher=The Savvy Screener | last=Greenberg | first=Charlie | date=August 19, 2020 | access-date=September 24, 2020}}</ref>
During [[Gorbachev]]'s [[Perestroyka]] in the [[USSR]] (late 1980s, ended with the downfall of the USSR and its version of [[Communism]] in 1991), a black-and-white movie named ''The Confession'' was created by a team of Georgians, with primary soundtrack being Georgian, and the Russian soundtrack being secondary "double". The movie was more-or-less directly modeled after ''The Great Dictator'', bearing hardcore anti-Stalinism bias. The dictator protagonist "batono Varlam" (Georgian: "comrade Varlam") was chosen to be facially similar to [[Lavrenty Beria]], the notorious national security minister of late Stalin. The movie, which started the wave of anti-Stalinism in Soviet media and all over the country, is considered to be one of the major milestones of Perestroyka. It was also extremely important that the authors were Georgians, since both Stalin and Beria were Georgians themselves.{{Citation needed|date=April 24, 2024}}
==See also==
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