Nov 13, 2018
5 min read
The United States Revokes Charlie Chaplin’s Re-Entry Permit Because They Can
“A democracy is a place where you can express your ideas freely — or it isn’t a democracy.” — Charles Chaplin
During the Red Scare hysteria of the late 1940s and early 1950s, legendary actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin, who never gave up his British citizenship and was well-known for his left-wing politics, inevitably ran afoul of…
