I must confess as a communist , never heard about John Reed, but it seems nobody than his friends remembered him..My excuse is the americans don't allow the broadcast of this movie outside U. S. because that's the way so called democracy works .I admire the courage of Warren Beaty to make such a movie in.the middle of the cold war. The acting was good those times , not like nowdays in U. S.i SUPPOSE THIS IS ONE OF THE LAST GOOD AMERICAN MOVIES.i Wonder in a country with allmost all , few but almost all goood writers were communists ( Ray Bradbury, Philip Roth,, Hemingway,Mark Twain , John Steinbeck,Paul Auster, Richard Bach, David Baldacci, Jack London ), nothing happend in al history in the matter of human rights..And i answer , because in capitalism people don read , the educational system don't exist, the only thing people are interested are the money. In the ex-communist countries except Russia almost all writers transform from communists to nazists in the second the communism has fallen, but here we read a lot in communist period, because communism concentrate about the education of people.