In 1996 The Independent ran an obituary for the principal actor in Tarkovsky's Stalker (1989) in which the anticommunist expat author barely mentions the actor and just makes up whatever she wants

The level of anticommunist bullshit you could just fabricate whole-cloth before the internet was truly on another level. In this obituary we get the following claims/fuckups:

• "Stalker portrayed the Soviet Union as a mass concentration camp" ???????
• she makes up an actor in Stalker who as far as I can tell does not even exist: "Ivan Laptev"
• an assertion that the principal character and whatever character would be played by the fictional actors "represented the country's conscience" and WHO is the country's conscience you might wonder? That's right ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSN!!!! and antinuclear activist Andrei Sakharov
• it was apparently so obvious that these characters represented these two people that the film was banned in the USSR (it wasn't)
• it was based on Picnic on the Road by Stanislaw Lem and came out in 1980 (actually based on Roadside Picnic by The Strugatsky Brothers and came out in 1979).
• because the Strugatsky Brothers wrote such a reactionary script they struggled to find publishers after the release (they continued to publish until Arkady Strugatsky's death)
• similarly, the principal actor Alexander Kaidanovsky couldn't get any more acting work in the Soviet film industry (he continued to work in the Soviet film industry until the collapse of the USSR)

I'll stop here - it's genuinely impressive how densely packed the fantasy is here, an interesting document of how free to lie anticommunist expats were before the internet.