Cinema
"You are known among us as a protector of the arts so you must remember that, of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important."
-Vladamir Lenin,
Conversation with A.V.Lunacharsky (April 1919); also quoted in A Concise History of the Cinema: Before 1940 (1971) by Peter Cowie, Complete Works of V.I.Lenin - 5th Edition - Vol. 44.