On the backdrop of Leonardo DiCaprio to play Vladimir Lenin in his biopic, the real life communists are demanding a boycott of DiCaprio's flicks because of his bourgeois lifestyle.
Communist MP Sergey Malinkovich said the 41-year-old actor has no idea of Lenin's lifestyle and "Lenin has kind eyes, and DiCaprio's eyes are sly," reports Daily Star.
They ripped up a poster of the Oscar-chasing Hollywood hunk after reports that he had been offered the role.
The Party even wants the 'Titanic' actor to move from glitzy Los Angeles to a remote Russian village where Lenin spent three years in exile.
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