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There were a lot of situations that were like this in the USSR. Actually not just the USSR the US had a lot of these crazy moments too during the cold War. Like the half dozen times the CIA tried to make their enemies gay. Or the endless Castro assassination plots.
Everyone in Stalin's inner circle had to have a method of surviving. Beria had all the dirt, Molotov was slavishly loyal, Malenkov never had an original thought. Khrushchev, as the movie shows, set himself as the funny man, always cracking jokes and always referencing his military service in WWII. He really did go home to his wife each night and go over all his jokes with her to keep track of which ones Stalin liked. The concert at the beginning really happened, but not on the night Stalin died. The pianist didn't have to be bribed to replay it, she knew everyone would suffer if they didn't. The 20,000 rubles was a gift from Stalin because he liked her playing. The note she sent back wasn't that combative. It just said she would pray for him and she gave the money to her church.
yep Stalin enjoyed western movies so his commity would often be forced to stay for hours watching spaghetti western getting drunk this made it hard to remember what jokes landed and other important events the next day so krushchevs wife basically debriefed him and ran through his notes each morning so he could remember what had happened and max his survival chance
@@RockandRollneverdies Look, if we're going to sit here and list every Soviet minister who was monstrously evil, we're going to be here a very long time.
@@18Hongo you are of course correct, we would be here a while but the three men listed were the three most remembered heads of the NKVD ( Most people forget Kruglov)
Yhezov killed more people than Beria, but he genuinely believed in communism and felt those he killed needed to die to preserve the revolution. Beria, on the other hand, was just a twisted sadist who beat children to death for fun.
7:57 Stalin indeed peed himself after his stroke. He was still alive when somebody finally opened the door, but they left him lying there for hours even after that.
😂because he had escalated any mistake to life or death and all the survivors were the ones who prioritized there own safety the decision paralysis they chose the safest course of action informing the committee they couldn't be punished for giving the responsibility to those in charge
Molotov was a Minister of Foreign affairs in 1939. When USSR invaded Finland and bombed cities with claster incendiary munitions, there was a news that Molotov denied bombings claiming planes dropped "food baskets to help starving Finns". No records of this claims exist, but Finns created "Molotov Coctail to go with the bread" to burn Soviet armored vehicles.
Molotov was the last surviving individual, in 1986, that was a major participant in the events on 1917 that led to the Soviet Union. He was also the only person on record to have shaken hands with every major leader in WWII, itself a fascinating fact. He was, in terms of purely historiographical concern, a giant that straddled a few short but decisive eras. Unless I'm mistaken, he also outlived most of the generals in WWII outside of some random individuals of no noteworthy skill.
and he was the Soviet's lead negotiator on what came to be called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the 1939 non-aggression treaty with Germany that cleared the way for both countries to invade Poland the following month.
@@DarkHairedOnehe saw the Revolutions that deposed the czar and founded the USSR, and lived to see the Chernobyl explosion that put the nail in its coffin. Can't imagine what it's like to build a country and lose it in one lifetime.
Fun fact, svetlana stalin ended up later on defecting from USSR. While never exactly, 'fully supportive' lets say of US actions in cold war (tbh itd be way more alarming if she was), she even got eventually pretty forthcoming about her own difficulties of coming to terms of the dual reality of her busy but (to her at least) loving father, that also turned out to be one of the most brutal human leaders to ever live; which ofc she was initially shielded from, but has helped historians and political leaders since to better understand the particularities of the monster he was. Tl;dr - Svetlana's story is almost as interesting as her dad's, and veers wildly off-path after events of his death
You forgot to mention she changed her mind and went back! This happened when I was a little boy. Couldn't comprehend what was going on. When she decided to return to the USSR there was speculation it was some sort of plot.
2:00 Prussia was one of the old German kingdoms. Known for the Junker aristocrats and militarism. Otto vOn Bismark, the man who united Germany, was a Prussian. Old Prussia was from north east Germany today and had territory that went east into what is modern Poland. The capital was Konigsberg, which is now called Kaliningrad which is a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania. (I realize all this information is online and anyone can find it, but I thought I’d share what I know. Love the movie btw)
Other than Adolf Hitler, Lavrintiy Beria is the only other man Josef Stalin ever genuinely feared while he was in power as Secretary General of the Soviet Union. Hitler nearly drove Stalin to a drunken, despair ridden suicide at his private dacha in July 1941 after Germany blitzed into the USSR on June 22, and Beria disturbed Stalin so much that he ordered his daughter Svetlana to never go near him. Stalin even instructed his bodyguards to never allow Beria to be left in the same room with him alone. In a 1949 meeting with representatives of the Chinese Communist Party in Moscow, Stalin introduced each of his department ministers by their titles to his Chinese guests. However, when he came to Beria, he derisively introduced him as the "new Heinrich Himmler."
Beria's trial was more formal than what this shows, the revelation of his sexual assaults was also less shocking, it was a known thing for women to not be outside after dark in Moscow. The SA was brought up at the trial as a way to isolate Beria from anyone who didn't know and might have wanted to support him.
It used to take Stalin forever to give a speech; Every time he'd pause there would be a 5 or 10 minute standing ovation- Nobody wanted to be the first one to stop clapping, because they were all afraid that someone was watching to see who sat down first- And they were right...
In real life Field Marshal Zhukov won more medals than depicted here. The director actually removed some from the costume to limit how ridiculous it looked even for a comedy.
You need a really dark sense of humor to enjoy this movie. I thought it was a riot from start to finish. My one wish is that Robin Williams was still alive to have played Joseph Stalin, that would have been platinum.
Fun fact: the reason Molotov cocktails are called that is because when the USSR was dropping bombs, Molotov gave a public statement saying they were actually just dropping food and drink supplies to the starving people, hence a 'Molotov cocktail' being just a drink supply that 'coincidentally' happens to explode
The main points of this movie really happened. Stalin would keep the committee up to all hours of the night and get them drunk out of their minds. The tomato smashed in pocket was standard to keep Stalin laughing.
Nobody dared to enter Stalin's Room without his say so. A cleaner was said to have said "Out of the way, he's dead". In the 🇬🇧, we had a period of National Mourning; for the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022
8:26 Nope, actually Stalin was a fan of american western movies. Western spaghettis arrived in the 60's. ( The genre owes its name to the fact that the majority of films were directed and produced by Italians, often in collaboration with other European countries, particularly Spain, France and Germany. ) El Chuncho (1966) from Damiano Damiani is i think the first one.
Marshall Zhukov was a true hero of the Soviet Union & his popularity made Stalin suspicious of him . But when he lead at the head of the Soviet Army riding a white horse in the victory parade in Moscow , it was too much for Stalin to take . So he sentenced him to internal exile in Siberia .
Blessings to you both for the New Year. I SO wanted an Arab / Egyptian perspective on this film. Also, I just realized why your videos are so meaningful to me. I have never watched a movie with my old man. Thank you for that truth. Also I am sure that your luxurious cigs are better than my Japanese ones...
Them dragging him out of the barn shooting him reminded me the death of Gaddafi, If you seen the video they just dragged him out of the pipe similar to this and out of nowhere somewhere shoved a knife up his butt. You can see the bleeding and they toss him half naked into an ambulance where he died. But just seeing his face when get got stabbed, I know he is responsible for a lot of deaths, but he looked like an old man and I just felt bad for him at that point.
My favorite subtle joke in this movie is when the first go to lift Stalin's body, they count to 3 but then he doesn't move.. as if they all expect the others to do the heavy lifting. nice poke at communism's lack of incentive to put forth more than the minimum effort.
That's not spaghetti western. Stalin loved American western films. He *really* loved them, to the point always watching them during the group gathering with his Politburo.
"Spaghetti westerns" weren't a thing until the mid-1960s. The first one, Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" (starring Clint Eastwood), was released in 1964. Stalin dug the older westerns, with John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, etc., and directed by John Ford, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann, or Michael Curtiz.
Malenkov was exiled to a power plant in the Eastern part of Russia. Apparently with the removal of all that stress he became a competent manager and a doting grandfather.
I love this movie, because oftentimes when we imagine powerful historical figures and politicians we imagine them to be strong and determined and all of their words have a lot of gravity. But the reality is they aren't better than anyone else. It probably is the case that they're a bunch of douchebag, college boy, spoiled fools. Grinning jackals like every awful boss you've ever had and this movie does a good job of portraying that.
This movie is INSANELY funny. However, the claim that it has anything in common with reality is completely untrue. There is no doubt that Stalin was a dictator. However, Caesar and Napoleon were also dictators. A dictator may act in the interests of the masses, or in the interests of his family and himself. A dictator is not a person who is inherently bad. This is a person in whose hands absolute power is concentrated. And how it is disposed of is determined solely by the dictator. During Stalin's reign, a large-scale electrification of the country was carried out (GOELRO plan. Thermal power plants, hydroelectric power stations, etc. were built. Already in 1932, energy production increased 7 times compared to 1913) An educational program was held (the percentage of literacy among the population increased from 20% to 89%. The USSR became the most educated country in the world). The country was industrialized (more than 10,000 plants and factories were built) An army reform was carried out (until ~1930s, in the Soviet army there were essentially only two ranks: private and commander) In 1941-1945, the USSR, under the leadership of the CPSU, headed by dictator Stalin, won the largest war in human history. This war caused terrible economic and demographic damage to the USSR. Almost everything that was built and nurtured earlier was destroyed. However, in 1947, the USSR develops its own nuclear bomb, becoming one of the two superpowers on the planet. And from 1945 to 1950, the country was actually restored from ruins. Yes, under Stalin there were repressions, there were executions. However, there was more to it than that. In the USSR, most people truly loved Stalin. It's funny, but the only Russian leaders whom the US and the West love are Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Two people who stand at the origins of the destruction and impoverishment of Russia. And even more ironically, Stalin in Russia has a rating among citizens on par with Peter the Great and Alexander Nevsky (very high). Gorbachev and Yeltsin have a rating of less than 10% and a hate rating of 80%+ In the history, propaganda there is always more than truth and therefore history is a very large and complex science. You shouldn't judge an era by a feature film. This may encourage you to study this era. But to immediately make the statement: “this was definitely true” is very controversial. _____________________ UPD: In case you didn’t know, Stalin died 70 years ago. In 1956, at the 20th Congress of the CPSU, at the initiative of Khrushchev, the “debunking of Stalin’s personality cult” took place. During the congress, Stalin's dictatorship was condemned. Many of those repressed were rehabilitated and released from prison. And so on. In the 70 years since Stalin's death, memoirs of almost all participants in those events have been published. Some of the most interesting are the memoirs of Marshal Zhukov (especially about the war) and Soviet generals in general (they are the “driesest” in terms of emotions) There are a huge number of these memoirs (first-hand events). And they were not subject to Soviet censorship in relation to Stalin, as I said earlier: Stalin’s regime was condemned by the party in 1956. These memoirs describe in detail the personality of Stalin and the attitude of his entourage towards him, and much more. In short: almost no one showed any ingratiation or sycophancy towards Stalin. The only exception is Klim Voroshilov (and this is because he was a very old comrade of Stalin) Almost all memoirists describe Stalin as a cold, intelligent, calculating politician who cares for his nation and country. Sometimes, with regard to his personality, memoirists have criticism. However, no one spoke about him derogatorily, or as a fool, or as an arrogant dictator who had lost his sense of reality.
Stalin killed more of his own people then the Nazis killed in all of world war 2 most over nothing but his own degenerate paranoia The iron curtain was the largest human atrocity of slavery and extermination since the death camps and the reason in the USSR people loved Stalin was cause if you didn’t;t like stain, your entire living block could be liquidated, murdered or sent to the gulag to die slowly and painfully in a state where several million of the population were active informants, informing on each other and their citizens, where any talk of displeasure with the government got the NKVD at your door to rape your daughter in front of you before slitting your throat, no wonder everyone loved Stalin death was the alternative. An ex CIS officer in my country talked about the 1950’s he said many of the international intelligence agencies were not worried about the soviets directly he told me, “the only thing the Russians loved more than oppressing people, was killing each other” the constant mass exterminations of people, the executive council murdering each other the constant executions, murders, executions and imprisonment of anyone with any actual knowledge or talent crippled the USSR severely, they literally killed or jailed every doctor in Moscow because Stlain was convinced they were trying to poison him... ensuring that no one of any quality was left to save him when he died the soldiers at his door, refused to enter because stlain had others who did so shot and they were terrified of being accused of killing him, so they left him on the floor everything of his sown death was a product of his insanity and this isa man who had millions of his own people murdered or sent to die in Siberia. Good riddance, they should have sent the nuke into the kremlin instead of Hiroshima.
Cool story, now tell me about how the North Koreans REALLY love their glorious leader. Completely unprompted and without any coercion they wrote that he doesn't defecate and was born under a double rainbow you know! That's hard proof there's no culture of fear and everyone constantly praises him in private, I mean it's true he has 'work' camps and often executes people but I'm sure all the nice things written about him are totally sincere. You're also correct that no one ever lies or tries to put a favourable spin in memoirs, I mean what would be the point? I'm sure the new Soviet leadership after Stalin's death would have no problem letting the world know that Russia has always been a tsardom and communism was responsible for the death of millions.
@@pleaseignore3055 It is difficult for a European to understand how one can love the leader of one’s country. After all, all European leaders have long been acting in the interests of the United States, and not their country. It is also difficult for an American to understand how you can love the leader of your country, because not one of the American presidents over the past 100 years came from the working class. All of them come from the aristocracy, have never worked a day like an ordinary person and are completely unfamiliar with the needs of ordinary people. You can compare dictator Stalin with dictator Kim Jong Il. Or you can compare it with the dictator Napoleon. Did the French also love Napoleon against their will? The question is, of course, rhetorical. It is not correct to compare Kim Jong-un and Stalin since Kim Jong-il comes from the aristocracy, and Stalin comes from a working-class family. Kim Jong-un is the son of the country's previous president, and Stalin is the son of a shoemaker. It is more appropriate to compare Kim Jong-un with Biden. Their difference is that the first kills unwanted people, and the second rapes children. However, neither the first nor the second bear any responsibility for this. But what's worse? Kill a person or rape a child? And if, according to the North Koreans, Kim Jong-un does not defecate, then according to the Americans, Biden does not suffer from dementia and is completely healthy. Very similar thinking.
@@reorioOrion Damn, I have never seen someone cope/simp so hard for a genocidal dictator that was so hated that his nation had to go through a massive de-stalinifcation period to scrub him from any part of Russian history, iconography, geography, policy, and culture. The reason why people "loved" him was for two reasons. One: If you speak against Stalin, think against Stalin, or even look like you are speaking against Stalin or thinking against Stalin, you died. Two: They didn't even know what he did, and when Khrushchev detailed Stalin's atrocities to the entire nation in a massive 4 hour speech, people actually fainted or got ill because they didn't realize how big of a monster Stalin truly was. You can jerk off to how much you love Stalin all you want, but don't think you will convince anyone that he wasn't worse than Hitler (people actually liked him believe it or not). Also, don't tell this to the face of any man who has lived under the yoke of soviet communism. You would probably leave that particular conversation missing a few of your teeth.
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The director said the concert recording scene really happened, but was even more ridiculous in reality.
It's more ridiculous than that, the composer they got was the third they approached because the first 2 were too drunk to do it.
There were a lot of situations that were like this in the USSR. Actually not just the USSR the US had a lot of these crazy moments too during the cold War. Like the half dozen times the CIA tried to make their enemies gay. Or the endless Castro assassination plots.
@@philipplyanguzov9090 Dont compare this to the US lmao.
@@philipplyanguzov9090 the cold war was a weird time
@@davedavidson4548 the US did a ton of farcical shit, like the presidency of Johnson or when Nixon got drunk and nearly nuked China
Everyone in Stalin's inner circle had to have a method of surviving. Beria had all the dirt, Molotov was slavishly loyal, Malenkov never had an original thought. Khrushchev, as the movie shows, set himself as the funny man, always cracking jokes and always referencing his military service in WWII. He really did go home to his wife each night and go over all his jokes with her to keep track of which ones Stalin liked.
The concert at the beginning really happened, but not on the night Stalin died. The pianist didn't have to be bribed to replay it, she knew everyone would suffer if they didn't. The 20,000 rubles was a gift from Stalin because he liked her playing. The note she sent back wasn't that combative. It just said she would pray for him and she gave the money to her church.
The reason Malenkov became deputy was just to be a yes man to Stalin.
yep Stalin enjoyed western movies so his commity would often be forced to stay for hours watching spaghetti western getting drunk
this made it hard to remember what jokes landed and other important events the next day
so krushchevs wife basically debriefed him and ran through his notes each morning so he could remember what had happened and max his survival chance
@@bobnolen568 Don't forget he made them drunk so they would slip and say some stuff they shouldn't.
Beria, head of the NKVD, was probably one of the most monstrous men who ever lived. His biography is the stuff of nightmares.
Dont forget Yagoda.
and Yezhov
@@RockandRollneverdies Look, if we're going to sit here and list every Soviet minister who was monstrously evil, we're going to be here a very long time.
@@18Hongo you are of course correct, we would be here a while but the three men listed were the three most remembered heads of the NKVD ( Most people forget Kruglov)
Yhezov killed more people than Beria, but he genuinely believed in communism and felt those he killed needed to die to preserve the revolution. Beria, on the other hand, was just a twisted sadist who beat children to death for fun.
7:57
Stalin indeed peed himself after his stroke. He was still alive when somebody finally opened the door, but they left him lying there for hours even after that.
😂because he had escalated any mistake to life or death and all the survivors were the ones who prioritized there own safety the decision paralysis they chose the safest course of action informing the committee they couldn't be punished for giving the responsibility to those in charge
@@bobnolen568 The fact that he sent all the best doctors to Siberia or executed them because was paranoid kinda but him in the ass too.
Molotov was a Minister of Foreign affairs in 1939.
When USSR invaded Finland and bombed cities with claster incendiary munitions, there was a news that Molotov denied bombings claiming planes dropped "food baskets to help starving Finns". No records of this claims exist, but Finns created "Molotov Coctail to go with the bread" to burn Soviet armored vehicles.
Molotov was the last surviving individual, in 1986, that was a major participant in the events on 1917 that led to the Soviet Union. He was also the only person on record to have shaken hands with every major leader in WWII, itself a fascinating fact.
He was, in terms of purely historiographical concern, a giant that straddled a few short but decisive eras. Unless I'm mistaken, he also outlived most of the generals in WWII outside of some random individuals of no noteworthy skill.
@@DarkHairedOne yes, he was one of the few OG Bolsheviks who managed to survive power struggle of 20s-50s.
and he was the Soviet's lead negotiator on what came to be called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the 1939 non-aggression treaty with Germany that cleared the way for both countries to invade Poland the following month.
@@DarkHairedOne Actually i think Lazar Kaganovich minister of Labour who is also in the movie was since he was the last surviving old Bolshevik
@@DarkHairedOnehe saw the Revolutions that deposed the czar and founded the USSR, and lived to see the Chernobyl explosion that put the nail in its coffin. Can't imagine what it's like to build a country and lose it in one lifetime.
Fun fact, svetlana stalin ended up later on defecting from USSR. While never exactly, 'fully supportive' lets say of US actions in cold war (tbh itd be way more alarming if she was), she even got eventually pretty forthcoming about her own difficulties of coming to terms of the dual reality of her busy but (to her at least) loving father, that also turned out to be one of the most brutal human leaders to ever live; which ofc she was initially shielded from, but has helped historians and political leaders since to better understand the particularities of the monster he was.
Tl;dr - Svetlana's story is almost as interesting as her dad's, and veers wildly off-path after events of his death
You forgot to mention she changed her mind and went back!
This happened when I was a little boy. Couldn't comprehend what was going on. When she decided to return to the USSR there was speculation it was some sort of plot.
Jason Issacs absolutely stole the show as Zhukov. Captured the straight talking no bullshit foul mouthed nature of man himself perfectly.
No one does this one! Thanks for checking it out.
2:00 Prussia was one of the old German kingdoms. Known for the Junker aristocrats and militarism. Otto vOn Bismark, the man who united Germany, was a Prussian. Old Prussia was from north east Germany today and had territory that went east into what is modern Poland. The capital was Konigsberg, which is now called Kaliningrad which is a Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania.
(I realize all this information is online and anyone can find it, but I thought I’d share what I know. Love the movie btw)
* Otto VON Bismarck, Not van :) von= German, van=dutch :)
@@MrHeiner96 I’ve have fixed it for you Herr Heiner haha
(I hadn’t realized the distinction between von and van as German and Dutch, thanks)
"I suppose, if you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian dissident and Gulag survivor.
Other than Adolf Hitler, Lavrintiy Beria is the only other man Josef Stalin ever genuinely feared while he was in power as Secretary General of the Soviet Union. Hitler nearly drove Stalin to a drunken, despair ridden suicide at his private dacha in July 1941 after Germany blitzed into the USSR on June 22, and Beria disturbed Stalin so much that he ordered his daughter Svetlana to never go near him. Stalin even instructed his bodyguards to never allow Beria to be left in the same room with him alone.
In a 1949 meeting with representatives of the Chinese Communist Party in Moscow, Stalin introduced each of his department ministers by their titles to his Chinese guests. However, when he came to Beria, he derisively introduced him as the "new Heinrich Himmler."
Beria's trial was more formal than what this shows, the revelation of his sexual assaults was also less shocking, it was a known thing for women to not be outside after dark in Moscow. The SA was brought up at the trial as a way to isolate Beria from anyone who didn't know and might have wanted to support him.
Your Dad was pretty sharp. He knew what was going on.
He grew up in a díctatorship.
It used to take Stalin forever to give a speech; Every time he'd pause there would be a 5 or 10 minute standing ovation- Nobody wanted to be the first one to stop clapping, because they were all afraid that someone was watching to see who sat down first- And they were right...
The tomato smashed in someone’s pocket was an actual thing that Stalin enjoyed.
In real life Field Marshal Zhukov won more medals than depicted here. The director actually removed some from the costume to limit how ridiculous it looked even for a comedy.
You need a really dark sense of humor to enjoy this movie. I thought it was a riot from start to finish. My one wish is that Robin Williams was still alive to have played Joseph Stalin, that would have been platinum.
Fun fact: the reason Molotov cocktails are called that is because when the USSR was dropping bombs, Molotov gave a public statement saying they were actually just dropping food and drink supplies to the starving people, hence a 'Molotov cocktail' being just a drink supply that 'coincidentally' happens to explode
There was an excellent movie called 'Stalin' (1992) that is very hard to find, but it talks about Beria and how much everyone despised him.
its on youtube
@@YakubKang oh cool, I saw it years ago. It’s really worth watching
The main points of this movie really happened. Stalin would keep the committee up to all hours of the night and get them drunk out of their minds. The tomato smashed in pocket was standard to keep Stalin laughing.
I love this movie. I showed this to my family, and they loved it too.
Nobody dared to enter Stalin's Room without his say so. A cleaner was said to have said "Out of the way, he's dead". In the 🇬🇧, we had a period of National Mourning; for the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022
Top film! Iannucci is a great satirist. For another comedy classic that cuts close to the bone, you should check out “Four Lions”
Rubber dinghy rapids, bro
4:10 He accidentally insulted Stalin and was so scared of the idea that Stalin and the NKVD would find out that he fainted
8:26 Nope, actually Stalin was a fan of american western movies. Western spaghettis arrived in the 60's. ( The genre owes its name to the fact that the majority of films were directed and produced by Italians, often in collaboration with other European countries, particularly Spain, France and Germany. )
El Chuncho (1966) from Damiano Damiani is i think the first one.
Marshall Zhukov was a true hero of the Soviet Union & his popularity made Stalin suspicious of him . But when he lead at the head of the Soviet Army riding a white horse in the victory parade in Moscow , it was too much for Stalin to take . So he sentenced him to internal exile in Siberia .
To make it worse, Stalin originally intended to ride that horse but it threw him.
Blessings to you both for the New Year. I SO wanted an Arab / Egyptian perspective on this film.
Also, I just realized why your videos are so meaningful to me. I have never watched a movie with my old man. Thank you for that truth. Also I am sure that your luxurious cigs are better than my Japanese ones...
Them dragging him out of the barn shooting him reminded me the death of Gaddafi, If you seen the video they just dragged him out of the pipe similar to this and out of nowhere somewhere shoved a knife up his butt. You can see the bleeding and they toss him half naked into an ambulance where he died. But just seeing his face when get got stabbed, I know he is responsible for a lot of deaths, but he looked like an old man and I just felt bad for him at that point.
Gaddafi was not a bad man...
My favorite subtle joke in this movie is when the first go to lift Stalin's body, they count to 3 but then he doesn't move.. as if they all expect the others to do the heavy lifting. nice poke at communism's lack of incentive to put forth more than the minimum effort.
"Convene" means meet. They have to have a meeting.
Thank you for reacting to this delicious film!
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That's not spaghetti western. Stalin loved American western films. He *really* loved them, to the point always watching them during the group gathering with his Politburo.
"Spaghetti westerns" weren't a thing until the mid-1960s.
The first one, Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" (starring Clint Eastwood), was released in 1964.
Stalin dug the older westerns, with John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, etc., and directed by John Ford, Howard Hawks, Anthony Mann, or Michael Curtiz.
You would probably enjoy In the Loop by the same director.
Saddam modeled himself after Stalin...
Your Dad is awesome, is pretty clear if someone grew up in a dictatorship the can recognize it even in another culture.
Yep and those who didn't try it will never get it
Your Dad is great. Enjoy your reactions.
No Molotov will not die anytime soon as he did in fact live until the late 1980s
Malenkov was exiled to a power plant in the Eastern part of Russia. Apparently with the removal of all that stress he became a competent manager and a doting grandfather.
Great reaction! Thanks.
I love this movie, because oftentimes when we imagine powerful historical figures and politicians we imagine them to be strong and determined and all of their words have a lot of gravity. But the reality is they aren't better than anyone else. It probably is the case that they're a bunch of douchebag, college boy, spoiled fools. Grinning jackals like every awful boss you've ever had and this movie does a good job of portraying that.
"The Nazi soldiers" What decade does he think he is in? This is set in the 1950s!
I enjoyed the connection between the two of you.
The darkest comedy of all time. Such a great movie though.
As a comedy series you'd like _I Am Alan Partridge_ Ianucci was involved with Steve Coogan for the writing and producing.
There's a third person in the "make sure he sees it." The "he" they refer to is not one shot before the "her"
I envy you and your dad's relationship..
It's comforting for me to see you guys just enjoying a movie while sitting on the couch. 💯❤️
Let's gooooo.
This movie rules!
YES!!!! My favorite movie by my favorite channel. Thanks!
Thank you! 🙏 ❤️
I've a recommendation for you, it's a rare film but it inspired a videogame franchise called " Clock tower" The film is called Phenomena from 1985
7:20 They are not nazi, they are communists
You guys talk over the whole movie
This "Brazil" in history.
28:07
Buscemi as Kruschev though. lol
Grand buttapest hotel 7:29
you guys should react to "taxi driver" by martin scorsese
Your dad's reaction was much better than yours on this one. Sometimes you have to enjoy the movie without talking too much.
This movie is INSANELY funny.
However, the claim that it has anything in common with reality is completely untrue.
There is no doubt that Stalin was a dictator.
However, Caesar and Napoleon were also dictators.
A dictator may act in the interests of the masses, or in the interests of his family and himself.
A dictator is not a person who is inherently bad.
This is a person in whose hands absolute power is concentrated.
And how it is disposed of is determined solely by the dictator.
During Stalin's reign, a large-scale electrification of the country was carried out (GOELRO plan. Thermal power plants, hydroelectric power stations, etc. were built. Already in 1932, energy production increased 7 times compared to 1913)
An educational program was held (the percentage of literacy among the population increased from 20% to 89%. The USSR became the most educated country in the world).
The country was industrialized (more than 10,000 plants and factories were built)
An army reform was carried out (until ~1930s, in the Soviet army there were essentially only two ranks: private and commander)
In 1941-1945, the USSR, under the leadership of the CPSU, headed by dictator Stalin, won the largest war in human history.
This war caused terrible economic and demographic damage to the USSR.
Almost everything that was built and nurtured earlier was destroyed.
However, in 1947, the USSR develops its own nuclear bomb, becoming one of the two superpowers on the planet.
And from 1945 to 1950, the country was actually restored from ruins.
Yes, under Stalin there were repressions, there were executions.
However, there was more to it than that.
In the USSR, most people truly loved Stalin.
It's funny, but the only Russian leaders whom the US and the West love are Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Two people who stand at the origins of the destruction and impoverishment of Russia.
And even more ironically, Stalin in Russia has a rating among citizens on par with Peter the Great and Alexander Nevsky (very high).
Gorbachev and Yeltsin have a rating of less than 10% and a hate rating of 80%+
In the history, propaganda there is always more than truth and therefore history is a very large and complex science.
You shouldn't judge an era by a feature film.
This may encourage you to study this era.
But to immediately make the statement: “this was definitely true” is very controversial.
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UPD:
In case you didn’t know, Stalin died 70 years ago.
In 1956, at the 20th Congress of the CPSU, at the initiative of Khrushchev, the “debunking of Stalin’s personality cult” took place.
During the congress, Stalin's dictatorship was condemned. Many of those repressed were rehabilitated and released from prison.
And so on.
In the 70 years since Stalin's death, memoirs of almost all participants in those events have been published.
Some of the most interesting are the memoirs of Marshal Zhukov (especially about the war) and Soviet generals in general (they are the “driesest” in terms of emotions)
There are a huge number of these memoirs (first-hand events).
And they were not subject to Soviet censorship in relation to Stalin, as I said earlier: Stalin’s regime was condemned by the party in 1956.
These memoirs describe in detail the personality of Stalin and the attitude of his entourage towards him, and much more.
In short: almost no one showed any ingratiation or sycophancy towards Stalin.
The only exception is Klim Voroshilov (and this is because he was a very old comrade of Stalin)
Almost all memoirists describe Stalin as a cold, intelligent, calculating politician who cares for his nation and country.
Sometimes, with regard to his personality, memoirists have criticism.
However, no one spoke about him derogatorily, or as a fool, or as an arrogant dictator who had lost his sense of reality.
Sure, Vladimir.
Stalin killed more of his own people then the Nazis killed in all of world war 2 most over nothing but his own degenerate paranoia
The iron curtain was the largest human atrocity of slavery and extermination since the death camps
and the reason in the USSR people loved Stalin
was cause if you didn’t;t like stain, your entire living block could be liquidated, murdered or sent to the gulag to die slowly and painfully
in a state where several million of the population were active informants, informing on each other and their citizens, where any talk of displeasure with the government got the NKVD at your door to rape your daughter in front of you before slitting your throat,
no wonder everyone loved Stalin
death was the alternative.
An ex CIS officer in my country talked about the 1950’s
he said many of the international intelligence agencies were not worried about the soviets directly
he told me, “the only thing the Russians loved more than oppressing people, was killing each other”
the constant mass exterminations of people, the executive council murdering each other
the constant executions, murders, executions and imprisonment of anyone with any actual knowledge or talent
crippled the USSR severely,
they literally killed or jailed every doctor in Moscow because Stlain was convinced they were trying to poison him...
ensuring that no one of any quality was left to save him when he died
the soldiers at his door, refused to enter because stlain had others who did so shot
and they were terrified of being accused of killing him, so they left him on the floor
everything of his sown death was a product of his insanity
and this isa man who had millions of his own people murdered or sent to die in Siberia.
Good riddance, they should have sent the nuke into the kremlin instead of Hiroshima.
Cool story, now tell me about how the North Koreans REALLY love their glorious leader. Completely unprompted and without any coercion they wrote that he doesn't defecate and was born under a double rainbow you know!
That's hard proof there's no culture of fear and everyone constantly praises him in private, I mean it's true he has 'work' camps and often executes people but I'm sure all the nice things written about him are totally sincere.
You're also correct that no one ever lies or tries to put a favourable spin in memoirs, I mean what would be the point? I'm sure the new Soviet leadership after Stalin's death would have no problem letting the world know that Russia has always been a tsardom and communism was responsible for the death of millions.
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It is difficult for a European to understand how one can love the leader of one’s country. After all, all European leaders have long been acting in the interests of the United States, and not their country.
It is also difficult for an American to understand how you can love the leader of your country, because not one of the American presidents over the past 100 years came from the working class. All of them come from the aristocracy, have never worked a day like an ordinary person and are completely unfamiliar with the needs of ordinary people.
You can compare dictator Stalin with dictator Kim Jong Il. Or you can compare it with the dictator Napoleon.
Did the French also love Napoleon against their will?
The question is, of course, rhetorical.
It is not correct to compare Kim Jong-un and Stalin since Kim Jong-il comes from the aristocracy, and Stalin comes from a working-class family. Kim Jong-un is the son of the country's previous president, and Stalin is the son of a shoemaker.
It is more appropriate to compare Kim Jong-un with Biden.
Their difference is that the first kills unwanted people, and the second rapes children. However, neither the first nor the second bear any responsibility for this.
But what's worse? Kill a person or rape a child?
And if, according to the North Koreans, Kim Jong-un does not defecate, then according to the Americans, Biden does not suffer from dementia and is completely healthy.
Very similar thinking.
@@reorioOrion Damn, I have never seen someone cope/simp so hard for a genocidal dictator that was so hated that his nation had to go through a massive de-stalinifcation period to scrub him from any part of Russian history, iconography, geography, policy, and culture. The reason why people "loved" him was for two reasons.
One: If you speak against Stalin, think against Stalin, or even look like you are speaking against Stalin or thinking against Stalin, you died.
Two: They didn't even know what he did, and when Khrushchev detailed Stalin's atrocities to the entire nation in a massive 4 hour speech, people actually fainted or got ill because they didn't realize how big of a monster Stalin truly was.
You can jerk off to how much you love Stalin all you want, but don't think you will convince anyone that he wasn't worse than Hitler (people actually liked him believe it or not). Also, don't tell this to the face of any man who has lived under the yoke of soviet communism. You would probably leave that particular conversation missing a few of your teeth.
More than the movie , the young man talks ...stop talking