People's beliefs and preferences in the USSR were never quite downstream of what the Soviet government wanted them to be since in 1991 the people all said "F--k it." and walked away from communism. People could read smuggled in forbidden books and listen to Radio Free Europe on the radio, and of course if they got caught they would get an all expense paid trip to a salt mine in Siberia, but they could not watch a forbidden film simply because no one but the state had film projecters, and later video tape players. Neither is something you can make by soldering a few wires together. Propaganda was all they saw in the movie theater. If an acceptable foriegn film was found, it was edited by the Soviet government to be suitable to their propagansa aims.

I'm a DC person, by the way.