After the end of the Second World War and the outbreak of the Cold War, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) cited "Song of Russia" as one of the three noted examples of "pro-Soviet propaganda films" made by Hollywood, the others being Warner Brothers' "Mission to Moscow" and RKO's "The North Star". This assertion was supported by the Russian-born pro-capitalist and anti-Communist writer Ayn Rand, who was specifically asked by a HUAC investigator to see the film and provide an expert opinion on it. Ayn Rand, in her 1947 testimony before the HUAC, cited "Song of Russia" as an example of Communist propaganda in the Hollywood motion picture-industry, depicting an idealized Soviet Union with freedom and comfort that, in her opinion, never existed in the real Soviet Union.