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The Death of Stalin (2017) - Uncut (Patreon)

Published:
2025-08-08 00:39:18
Imported:
2026-06

Content

Steve Buscemi, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Olga Kurylenko, Rupert Friend, Paddy Considine, Tom Brooke

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Roland

> Instead, much of the high-level work of government took place at dinners hosted by Stalin for his inner circle of Beria, Malenkov, Khrushchev, Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, Vyacheslav Molotov, and Nikolai Bulganin. Khrushchev took early naps so that he would not fall asleep in Stalin's presence; he noted in his memoirs, "Things went badly for those who dozed off at Stalin's table." <

Roland

This is wild: > After Stalin's death, Beria launched a number of reforms. According to Taubman, "unparalleled in his cynicism, he [Beria] did not let ideology stand in his way. Had he prevailed, he would almost certainly have exterminated his colleagues, if only to prevent them from liquidating him. In the meantime, however, his burst of reforms rivaled Khrushchev's and in some ways even Gorbachev's". One proposal, which was adopted, was an amnesty which eventually led to the freeing of over a million non-political prisoners. Another, which was not adopted, was to release East Germany into a united, neutral Germany in exchange for compensation from the West—a proposal considered by Khrushchev to be anti-communist. Khrushchev allied with Malenkov to block many of Beria's proposals, while the two slowly picked up support from other Presidium members. Their campaign against Beria was aided by fears that Beria was planning a military coup, and, according to Khrushchev in his memoirs, by the conviction that "Beria is getting his knives ready for us." The key move by Khrushchev and Malenkov was to lure two of Beria's most powerful deputy ministers, Sergei Kruglov and Ivan Serov, to betray their boss. This allowed Khrushchev and Malenkov to arrest Beria as Beria belatedly discovered he had lost control of Ministry of Interior troops and the troops of the Kremlin guard. On 26 June 1953, Beria was arrested at a Presidium meeting, following extensive military preparations by Khrushchev and his allies. Beria was tried in secret and executed in December 1953 with five of his close associates. <

George Samoila

after reading a book by Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, what is interesting about the soviet union was people like Stalin really were true-believers in communism (whereas today we like to think of many people as just cynically lying about their ideology to grab power), so they kept a lot of records of all their meetings thinking they were archiving a major point in humanity's history and "evolution"; Stalin once joked to a person in a meeting "didn't I have you arrested yet?", and he even deported people from his own family the paranoia and the ideology that did not allow anything to go wrong in the soviet union led to tragedies like famine that killed millions, because everyone kept reporting higher and higher crop estimates to their superiors, and when one year the crop was bad, instead of allowing for the possibility that their system is flawed, the only explanation they had was to blame the farmers and "saboteurs", so party people would go into poor farmers yards and take people's last animals that they needed to survive the winter as a Romanian there's still so much monstrous stuff from recent history and propaganda still works on so many people, our first "democratic" president Iliescu (who was a communist educated in moscow) just died recently and he still had fans showing up to honor him just like people showed up for Stalin, despite the fact that this guy called in mobs of miners to beat student protesters in the streets (some even beaten to death) in the early 90s great movie and I am glad you enjoyed it, jason isaac's scenes are always fun to rewatch, somehow such a black satirical comedy does much more to educate and to reveal these monsters like Beria and Stalin than straight up boring documentaries that put people to sleep

Emma Samuel

Michael Palin, one the the nicest people ever, playing Molotov is such inspired casting. And Jason Isaacs is endlessly quotable - I say 'I'm smiling but I'm actually very f*cking furious' all the time irl. Armando Ianucci did create Veep but this leans more heavily into The Thick of It (Veep's UK predecessor), and you can see elements of the terrifying Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi's psychotically sweary spin-doctor) in this. Also it's really bizarre seeing that particular mix of British/American talent. Some of the smaller roles are fairly well known UK comic actors who you just would never expect to see in a movie like this.

Erin Mileur

Svetlana Stalins daughter later defected to the west she died in 2011 in Wisconsin.

jimmy2k4o .

Gentlemen we've known each other since we argued back in west wing seaosn 1, we've been through the years togehter to so please, it's a hard sell but afte you finish veep you have to check out The Thick of it. it's was the british tv show that inspired veep and is made by the same creative team as this and the thick of it. it would be imcomplete to leave it out. but there also a movie that's a sort of bridge between veep and the thick of it call "in the loop" it's iconic and respectd in the uka nd was by exec of HBO who saw it and wanted an american version and thats were we have veep. nd like in veep hte cast improvised most of their own lines/insults.

Panos
>>183321376

The Thick of It is still one of my favorite shows. Peter Capaldi is incredible in it as well as everyone else.

Skinny_Obelix

This is so much better when you understand that all the "bits" are taken from actual horrifying stories. The repeating of the concert, Khrushchev having his wife record his jokes to know what worked and didn't, trying to replace the hockey team by Stalin's son, the power race in the woods, ...

Youtalkingtome
>>183439630

So absurd. I'm sure people will look back 70 years from now and think that what we are living through is absurd as well.

Youtalkingtome
>>183275243

This was very educational honestly. I feel like knowing now that so much of this happened. It's a brilliant choice to turn this into a satire. Kind of reminds me of Drunk History in that way.