Long ago, the Galaxy was dominated by the Galactic Republic. These were dark times, as the bourgeoisie dominated the heroic Proletariat, and a corrupt religious oligarchy, the Jedi, ruled everything behind the scenes. However, all was not lost, for a hero came to end this injustice: Palpatine. Palpatine led a revolution against the vile capitalists, and established a worker's paradise, after executing all the Jedi. However, all was not to last. Palpatine became drunk with power, and turned on his former comrades, even using the Force, the weapon of the hated Jedi. With the help of his minion, Darth Vader, he purged all opposition from his former compatriots, and ruled as a tyrant almost as bad as the Jedi. However, Obi Wan Kenobi, Palpatine's former friend, took the son of Darth Vader, Luke, to the planet Tatooine. Luke would one day join the rebellion against the traitors to the revolution, and prove that you did not need the force to win, defeating Palpatine and Vader and establishing a worker's paradise. Star Wars was a great hit in the USSR, despite its status as not so subtle propoganda for the recently inaugurated Premier Nikita Khrushev. Palpatine is an obvious stand in for Stalin, whose legacy Khrushev made it his mission to erase, and Obi Wan is quite obviously Trotsky, while Luke shares some traits with the Premier himself. Palpatine's use of the Force to oppress the workers also fits the narrative that Stalin was no different from the deposed Romanov dynasty. Overall, the film was a great technical achievement for the 60s, and has a fun, if propoganda-y, story. A highly recommended family classic, and good for historians analyzing the Khrushev era.