 USSRs Minister of Art & Culture, Romanov, forbade  Innokenti Smoktunovsky (qv) to play the part of Detochkin because  a couple of years before Smoktunovsky had played V.I. Lenin (qv).  And, according to Romanov, Smoktunovsky could not play someone who  steals cars; in fact, he thought that a man, who once played Lenin,  could not play in movies any longer. But, luckily, Romanov retired  in the same month his statement was made and a new minister allowed  Innokenti to continue his work.