THE DEATH OF STALIN – Review by Martha P. Nochimson

You can’t get a better deflector for these dark days in the United States than a serio-comic farce set in the now defunct Soviet Union in 1953, as the mammoth country was given an opportunity to emerge from the rigid structure of Stalin’s tyranny. The Death of Stalin (2017) directed by political satirist Armando Ianucci is such film, a comic tour de force about the anarchy hidden within despotism.

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THE DEATH OF STALIN — Review by Martha K. Baker

“The Death of Stalin” does not purport to be history, so anyone going to learn about this moment in Russian history will be terribly confused. Anyone going to see satire about anarchy will be satisfied. There’s no way to see this film without thinking of the reports out of the White House concerning process chaos and policy chaos, something that the current administration admittedly thrives on.

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