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Furtseva used all her official power to destroy
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and helped lift their spirits with his performances, while they were struggling to survive. After the war he started a teaching career at the Moscow State Film
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in Moscow. From 1946 to 1975 he also taught an acting class at State Film
Institute (VGIK), where he became a professor in 1966. In his acting career spanning over 55 years, Babochkin played over 200 roles on stage and 25 roles in movies and on television, but his role as
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censorship, which was under the control of
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and director. Boris
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