Due to the presence in the film images of Joseph Stalin and Lavrenti Beria film twice undergone considerable censorship, and the original version was shown on Azerbaijani television only in the beginning of the XXI century.
For political reasons, in 1968 revision, the scenes with the actors Mikheil Gelovani (Iosif Stalin) and Nikolay Mordvinov (Lavrentiy Beriya) have been deleted.