Posted on 03/05/2019 7:59:08 AM PST by Fiji Hill
Kruschev reportedly watched.........................
I met Stalin’s daughter in the ‘80’s. Very nice lady. My BFF’s mom is a seamstress and had done some seamstress work for Svetlana and we delivered the clothes to her at the hotel she was staying at.
Stalin is dead?
Sure.
Next thing they’ll be saying Mao is gone.
A Must-See Movie.
The biggest one is that Beria wasn't executed until the following year.
from what I have read, Svetlana led a rather unhappy and very unsettled life.
Allegedly Beria finished Stalin off and told the rest of the Politburo, “I saved you all.”
“Cause old Joe lay right down and died”
I read they got him by putting rat poison in his food.
I bet he was poisoned.................
I remember the announcement coming over my school’s PA system.
Ping for later
Saw about 10mns of that “movie”. A waste of those 10mns.
Saw about 10mns of that “movie”. A waste of those 10mns.
I generally “watch” this type of film while I am working on something else, so it is kind of background noise and only getting part of my attention. But I caught enough to get the gist of it. I saw a few parts that made me laugh. I doubt that they were completely historically accurate except that truth is often stranger than fiction and parts of the film were based on actual occurrences. And I thought that the actors portrayals were recognizable enough that it was quite easy to figure out who was playing which historical figure. I would not call the film a complete waste of time. My wife came in and made me change back to her favorite Andy Griffith reruns, so I didn’t see the ending.
I think The Death of Stalin was accurate in the sense that despite the image we in the West had of the Soviet Leadership as this dour, ruthlessly efficient, focused methodical group of supermen, scratch the surface and it was a rollicking fustercluck.
The film captured that nicely I think.
And as soon as he began feeling the effects, he couldn't summon his bodyguard of 30-odd years or his doctor. They had been purged.
Thank you. I think that is a good summery of what the situation likely was.
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