- Ivan Sanchin
Alex Ganchin was from 1939 through 1951 the private
projectionist of Soviet leaderJoseph Stalin . His story is portrayed in the 1991 film "The Inner Circle"; however, the name of the character portraying him was changed to Ivan Sanchin, possibly in reference to Russian folk tales with a bumbling, dumb character named Ivan.References
*Imdb title|id=0103838|title=The Inner Circle
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