Stalin
Among what I consider the most underrated movies is the 1992 HBO movie about the devout Communist who built the Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin. You can get it in reasonably good quality free on YouTube. Robert Duval is excellent as Stalin. The writing is superb. Its only weakness is that it had too much ground to cover and does quite a bit of condensing.
I have watched it many times.
There is one interesting thing about this movie that is memorable. That being the way it presents the wife of Stalin: Nadya (Julia Ormond.)
According to the movie, Nadya becomes fed up with Stalin's paranoia and those in his orbit. She tells her closest friend that he surrounds himself with "these creatures." (I'd like to add that Stalin did promote some real thugs to run security and the secret police, but to his credit he never backed them up when they eventually got called out.)
Nadya also can't stand the way Stalin holds lifetime grudges over the smallest slight or the way he becomes suspicious of anyone in the government whose star is on the rise. She tries leaving him, but her father is a Stalin loyalist and helps Stalin bring her back. Nadya knows that she can never escape Stalin and maybe also knows that she alone can punish him: by taking her own life. We see just how much she punished him in one of the final scenes. I found it to be one of the most interesting aspects of the movie and I hope I haven't revealed too much for those who haven't seen it.
I don't know how a Communist might feel about this movie. It does a good job of showing what Stalin was willing to sacrifice in order to make Russia a more industrialized nation and bring it into the modern age. He was more than willing to starve the peasants to feed the factory workers. He also sacrificed his comrades in the revolution to consolidate power, and we all know what he did to his perceived enemies.
I highly recommend this movie.
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Boo Radley becomes Stalin.
Nadya also can't stand the way Stalin holds lifetime grudges over the smallest slight or the way he becomes suspicious of anyone in the government whose star is on the rise.
Sounds like Nadya has a severe case of SDS!
SDS = "Stalin Derangement Syndrome".
Should make a rule that SDS will be deleted if someone posts it.
There are people who are too immature to end lifetime grudges.
You are making me self-conscious.
In Uncle Joe's defense: even paranoids have real enemies.
I was thinking of a specific person, not you, but I'm sure he knows who I mean.