Weirdly, even the end credits manage to have an element of this - various shots from the film are presented as old photographs which then slowly become doctored with people's faces scratched out, Beria being replaced by a Soviet flag, people fully removed from the picture, and so on.Mercifully, this never happened in real life. One of the NKVD members nonchalantly blows his comrade's brains out for no apparent reason. All those people liquidated simply because they were inconvenient. The round-up/massacre of the staff at Stalin's dacha.The NKVD massacring those attempting to enter Moscow is one of the few moments of violence which is played for genuine terror and without any hint of Black Comedy, and the Presidium (all of them) are far more concerned with finding someone besides themselves to blame for it rather than displaying any real concern for the victims. The subsequent riot and reaction of the Presidium as a result of this move is also quite disturbing.Let's see how Beria's goons cope with that. Khrushchev: New security orders: restart the trains. When Georgy Malenkov expresses his desire to have Beria given a fair trial, Khrushchev is having none of it, as he knows just what Beria will do if he somehow manages to escape his fate.I thank the union for bringing me so many devoted wives who fuck like sewing machines." When his aide comments that the man's wife would do anything to get him released, Beria sneers, "Yeah, and she did everything. He tells him to loudly torture the man's wife where he can clearly hear her to get him to talk. When Beria rushes to the dacha after Stalin's collapse, he's giving instructions to an aide about how to get a confession out of a prisoner.There's one particular scene that opens with him staring down the audience in an interrogation room with a big grin on his face, looming over the audience and being generally unnerving.And he was even worse in real life if you can believe that. All in all, a power-hungry and very despicable person. Head of the NKVD, Stalin's personal executioner who he called "his Heinrich Himmler", a serial rapist. It shows the lengths that people will go to make sure they stay within the dear leader's good graces. Once he gets home, Khrushchev begins listing off all of the jokes he made during the night with Stalin, and most importantly, detailing whether Stalin laughed or not. ![]() One's fate in the Soviet Union is dependent entirely on the whims of Stalin, no matter how high up they are and his good mood is all that stands between them and the gulag or a bullet. Beria mentions offhand that he's on the list of enemies. And then there's Molotov, a man who is unquestionably loyal to Stalin, even after he ordered his wife's arrest. ![]() If it hadn't been for Beria distracting him with a prank on Khrushchev, Malenkov might not have lived past the night. The very second he brings the topic up, the room goes deathly silent and Stalin fixes Malenkov with a Death Glare and asks in a dangerously soft voice if he really wants to know about what happened to Polnikov. During a party, where everyone is drinking and joking around, Georgy Malenkov accidentally wonders aloud what happened to Polnikov, someone who Stalin had liquidated.
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