#TheDeathOfStalin

2025-05-28

“How totalitarian regimes die.” @OldStPublishing #thedeathofstalin

Author Sheila Fitzpatrick has appeared on the Ramblings before, when I reviewed her excellent "A Spy in the Archives" back 2020. A noted and respected Soviet historian, as the book relates she spent some time living in the USSR and so she brings expertise and personal knowledge to her writings on the country and its history. So when I heard that Old Street Publishing were bringing out a new work by…

kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpr

2025-04-21

Just watched The Death of Stalin with 15 yo son (his suggestion). Very funny, thoroughly recommend. He had to explain some Russian history to me and luckily I did not have to explain any of the smutty jokes to him 😯😂
#TheDeathOfStalin #Films

Strider | ScottStrider@mstdn.games
2024-07-23

I went down an awful figurative rabbit hole the other day. I was watching a clip on #Thedeathofstalin and it got to thinking about Lavrentiy Beria.

All I'll say is, if you don't know about this monster, don't look him up. It'll give you a nightmare.

Stalin, again, not exactly 'heaven' material, reportedly said of him, he's "our Himmler".

IndieWireindiewire
2024-07-21
Tim Zeeilust606
2024-04-01

@anneapplebaum
Imagine Armando Iannucci's "The Death of Stalin" but with Beria rather than Khrushchev and Malenkov taking over. That's a bit like Putin's Russia today. A Chekist state.
And it's bizarre to consider that Stalin's senior officials probably had more talent in governance than the faceless sycophants Putin surrounds himself with today.

youtu.be/kPpXFnHoC-0

2024-03-06

#OnThisDay, March 5, in 1953, leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin passed away after being incapacitated by a stroke several days before. His ministers scrambled for power in his absence (The Death of Stalin, 2017)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #TodayInHistory #Histodons #Stalin #TheDeathOfStalin

A people around a bed, distracted away from the figure lying within it.A man standing outside of a guarded doorway. He's speaking to a bald man in the foreground, saying, "He's dead."
2024-01-03
Really pleased I gave this film a second chance. I’m still laughing just at the thought of one of the scenes.

https://boxd.it/5tYppL

#Letterboxd #Movies #TheDeathOfStalin
2023-12-10

It is said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. The Death of Stalin doesn’t so much repeat as reenacts history as political satire/black comedy and the result, neither very satirical nor comical, is tragically heinous.

ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.

Tim Zeeilust606
2023-12-08

Donald Trump recently claimed that, if elected, he'd be dictator ONLY for one day.
Right...

Speaking of dictators, see The Death of Stalin in case you've never previously seen it. I hope there will be a Putin movie when the time comes.

youtube.com/watch?v=kPpXFnHoC-0



2023-04-12

It is said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. The Death of Stalin doesn’t so much repeat as reenacts history as political satire and black comedy and the result, neither very satirical nor comical, is tragically heinous.

ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.

Svenssons NyheterAnders_S@mastodon.nu
2023-01-30

Sovjet och DDR:s svek i 3 filmer
Stalins och kommunistpartiets Sovjetunionen bjöd på 30-talet in världens arbetarklass att delta i bygget av socialismen i ”historiens första arbetarstat”. Många hörsammade entusiastiskt kallelsen, lämnade sina hem, och många tog med sig verkt
blog.zaramis.se/2023/01/30/sov
#Film #Finland #Historia #Ryssland #Sovjet #Stalinism #Tyskland #Ungern #DDR #Denevigavägen #Dentystarevolutionen #TheDeathofStalin #Ungernrevolten

Can't Spell HEART without ARTjkonline@troet.cafe
2022-11-25

YES! Hab für die insgesamt knapp 8h Bahnfahrt die nächsten 2 Tage noch 2 Eps #1899netflix, die neuste Ep #RickAndMorty, das GotG-Special & jetzt war auch noch #TheDeathOfStalin in den Prime Deals!
Den wollt ich seit Ewigkeiten mal wieder schauen!😁

it's gourd seasonmeia@social.coop
2018-04-21

I’d be entertained by a movie about how “Employees must wash hands!” signs became required by businesses if it were directed by Armando Iannucci. Not that there’s any comparison but the other 8 people in the theatre and I agree—#TheDeathOfStalin was pretty hilarious.

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