dla ostatecznego rozstrzygniecia przytocze jeszcze raz co sam Chaplin mowil, na ten temat.
z Autobiografi:
Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities — a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.
i cyctat z The Observer:
"I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician."

dla mnie zbyt trudny tekst do przelozenia, ale jasno wynika ze niego, ze Chaplin komunista nie byl i czul sie ponad podzialami. nie mogl poprostu pozostac obojetny na lamianie wolnosci slowa i sumienia, dlatego nie przylaczyl sie do rzadowej nagonki na komunistow i wlasnie za ten nonkomformizm zostal skasyfikowany jako jeden z nich.