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The Hollywood Celebrities Who Look Like Soviet Figures
News that French actor and newly minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu has been cast to play a 50s-era Josef Stalin in a new film left us pondering others who could fit the bill as famous Soviets.
![Vladimir Lenin -- Silver-screen star Leonardo DiCaprio bears a striking resemblance to the founder of the Soviet state. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/ea9e35a5-232f-40ce-ac17-82773344532a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Vladimir Lenin -- Silver-screen star Leonardo DiCaprio bears a striking resemblance to the founder of the Soviet state.
![Nadezhda Krupskaya -- Scarlett Johansson, who has ancestral ties to imperial Russia, is uniquely suited to portray the Bolshevik revolutionary and wife of Lenin. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/9072d9a1-9e23-4b04-9fb3-720a0ff7d75a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Nadezhda Krupskaya -- Scarlett Johansson, who has ancestral ties to imperial Russia, is uniquely suited to portray the Bolshevik revolutionary and wife of Lenin.
![Leonid Brezhnev -- Having famously played the ab-ripped Batman, Christian Bale would have to rely more on his fat-man look if he were to play the Soviet leader who followed Khrushchev. ](https://gdb.rferl.org/dea9a3c7-8248-48c1-ba19-58991c1d1b6a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Leonid Brezhnev -- Having famously played the ab-ripped Batman, Christian Bale would have to rely more on his fat-man look if he were to play the Soviet leader who followed Khrushchev.