The ‘Reagan’ actor who left the Soviet Union says the ‘atmosphere’ in the US changed after he became president

Another actor of the movie “Reagan”, who is an immigrant during the reign of the Soviet Union, said that he thinks he may have made a mistake in coming to the US before President Ronald Reagan took office, citing concerns about the state of the country and the world.

Elya Baskin, who plays BE Kertchman in the classic film, joined “America’s Newsroom” to discuss the importance of the movie and why its meaning is personal to her as an immigrant who fled imperial rule.

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“I came here about a hundred years ago, and I thought I came to paradise,” Baskin told Griff Jenkins on Friday. “Then… Gerald Ford was president. Then there were four years under President Carter, and that was a very different four years… The Shah of Iran was betrayed by Carter and he got Khomeini, a hostage situation, and he started. Israel as the enemy… and the inflation was huge I remember it was like 10, 12% inflation.

“Every time you go to the store, it’s expensive, and I thought maybe I did something wrong to come here,” he continued. “I was dreaming. And suddenly … what happened? Then Reagan came, and the whole atmosphere in the country changed. And … he understood that things would be better and life would be much better, and it got better. much better and… that’s how I feel now.” …

“Reagan,” the first full-length feature on the life of former President Ronald Reagan, topped Amazon’s Best Sellers list. list after being available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital earlier this month.

The film, which stars Dennis Quaid as the 40th president, was released on Blu-ray on November 19 and quickly climbed to the top of Amazon’s Best Sellers on Blu-ray charts over the weekend.

“Reagan” expectations of a successful box office on its opening weekend in September, taking third place behind “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “Alien: Romulus.” It also has a score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Baskin, who wrote an op-ed with Fox News last year, said that “unauthorized Marxist ideas” have infiltrated the lives of Americans. He took his role in “Reagan” as a warning against Marxist rule.

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“Young Reagan met Kertchman, who was a real actor and who told him that everything he read in the newspapers was not really true, because Stalin was a great deceiver of public opinion,” Baskin said. “He invited many famous writers to Russia and treated them as if they were kings. He showed them how good life is under the socialist… paradise and… at the same time, people were suffering.”

“They were hungry… there were people arrested for saying things that the government will not allow [a] bad timing,” he continued.

“I was very surprised when after a few years of living here that I could say ‘I love America’ in America [you] in trouble.”

Baskin argued that Stalin used fear and deception to maintain control, which is why he won and preyed on Western writers in the Soviet Union to spread a false message around the world.

“Of course, these ignorant westerners had no idea how ordinary people lived. Stalin had shown them the artfully organized parts of life in the USSR and allowed them to interact only with specially trained personnel,” he wrote in an op-ed. “While in Moscow, they were closely watched and not allowed to deviate even slightly from their pre-planned route.”

“If they had seen the real conditions under which our people lived, they would have had nightmares,” he continued. “Millions of people were starved to death, sent to forced labor camps or brutally murdered for disloyalty to the government.”

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The film, however, also showed a love story between the 40th president and his wife, Nancy.

Singer-songwriter Kathie Lee Gifford, who met President Reagan and his wife, wrote the soundtrack for the film in an effort to show their incomparable relationship.

“You could tell when you were with them that they were crazy, crazy dedicated. It was just a beautiful thing to see, a really beautiful thing to see,” he said during “Fox & Friends” on Friday. “An apologetic love song.”

Attendant Carley Shimkus read part of a letter Reagan wrote to his wife on their 31st wedding anniversary. “I love you more than you,” he read. “I’m not complete without you. You are life itself to me. When you’re gone, I’m waiting for your return to start living again.”

Gifford emphasized that everyone yearns for the kind of unconditional love that Ronald and Nancy shared.

“Everybody wants to be loved like that,” Gifford said. “We’re not meant to be alone. We’re not meant to be. We’re not meant to be in society with other people, but to be close to one person, who loves you completely, completely, and loves them the same way. .”

Fox News’ Yael Halon contributed to this report.