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Doorstep to Communism
This Conservative Party film claims that votes for Labour are stepping stones to a Communist state.
Campaigning film 1948 11 mins
Overview
This campaigning film claims that well-meaning Labour politicians such as Prime Minister Clement Attlee are stepping stones to a communist state, and it is only the Conservative Party that can protect the UK from such a fate. An inventive animated sequence of a snake swallowing a trembling rabbit is used to demonstrate the manner in which communism feeds on socialism.
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