Playful satire on a government obsessed with ouster plots, lists, matrices and scapegoating, the paranoia that devours the tentacles of a regime built over t
A polio vaccine was developed, and the Korean War ended. But one event overshadowed them all in terms of its impact on the course of the 20th Century and the conduct of The Cold War. On March 5 of 1953, the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, died. What followed in the days, weeks, months, and even years afterwards was a struggle for
That winter, Stalin had been waging a witch hunt against Kremlin physicians, many of whom were Jewish, claiming they murdered top Soviet officials in a “doctors' plot. The trial against the
The Death of Stalin on Pluto TV | Comedy | 1hr 46 min | Steve Buscemi and Jason Isaacs star in this uproarious satire from Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop) about the wild power struggle for control of the Soviet Union. Moscow, March 1953: in the days following the death of Joseph Stalin, countless citizens flooded the Red Square to mourn their leader’s loss and witness his burial in Lenin’s Tomb. Though the parade of pomp and circumstance was captured in detail by 200 camera operators, their footage has remained largely unseen in the intervening decades. GDlB. 293 487 80 495 262 381 105 211 365