I just watched that 1992 movie entitled Stalin. He was played by Robert Duvall who I thought did an excellent job as the Soviet Tyrant. It left out all the purges and the mass executions but it was a decent movie.

How accurate can it be without all the heinous crimes? Seems like it would be leaving out a lot of the story.

Robert Duvall is an excellent actor so the movie was probably decent. I first visited Russia in 1974 and at that time Stalin was an "unmentionable." There is a section of the Kremlin where well known people are buried (including one American, Jack Reed). I was walking along this area and there was a bust of Stalin indicating that was his burial place. Nothing fancy or remarkable. Stalin was a psychopath who built the Soviet economy on slave labor. He also had a fascinating history, especially as a young man. A writer named Simon Montefiore had access to the Stalin files in the Soviet archives back in the 90's (Putin has since closed them off again) and wrote two excellent books, Young Stalin and Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar.

I believe there are scenes where the Kulaks are relieved of their grain, the message is they would starve to death.

Wasn't there also the scene when senior military personnel were loaded in a barge and the barge was then sunk.

It has been years since I saw it but, I remember Duvall did a really good job.

My Russian wife and I use to imagine commercials for Sovietsky products.

The brand would be Red Star of course and it usually went like

"When You Have The Best,

Who Needs Competition

Red Star Laundry Detergent"

Of course in true Soviet fashion, and McNamara too , one size fits all

the same commercial would work for any Red Star product.

Moi

Support Red Star Peoples' Socialist Industries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDrtNEr_5M

A great orchestral condemned to the trash heap of history.

I liked it in "Hunt for Red October"

hazbalz (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:42 am Robert Duvall is an excellent actor so the movie was probably decent. I first visited Russia in 1974 and at that time Stalin was an "unmentionable." There is a section of the Kremlin where well known people are buried (including one American, Jack Reed). I was walking along this area and there was a bust of Stalin indicating that was his burial place. Nothing fancy or remarkable. Stalin was a psychopath who built the Soviet economy on slave labor. He also had a fascinating history, especially as a young man. A writer named Simon Montefiore had access to the Stalin files in the Soviet archives back in the 90's (Putin has since closed them off again) and wrote two excellent books, Young Stalin and Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar.

Even today in post-Red Russia,

Trotsky is omitted from their history.

Among his other accomplishments was winning the Civil War against the Whites and their international support and foreign troops supporting. America had troop in Archangel around 1920. Japan occupied some of the Russian east coast, and even Hungary had troops in Russia. Everyone did, sort of.

Moi

I understand this book has won awards. I bugged fhunter to get a copy. Unimpressed I believe.

http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Trots ... 1840461551

Here is all, near 3 hours of the movie, Stalin with Bobby Duvall

And it is FREE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxP7FNX2nqk