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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: HISTORY LESSONS: The Death of Stalin (2017)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of a suicide from 31:20-31:44 and abuse and torture of prisoners from 33:19-34:08. Also, discussion of mass murder, antisemitism, alcoholism, execution, mass killings, death, grief.
We move out of the fog of war to a much weirder and funnier moment of history this week as we dive into the power vacuum of Soviet power in 1953. More importantly, though, we’re watching an Armando Iannucci film, which means razor-sharp satire and incredibly inventive cursing, both of which are present here. But while th...