The Death of Stalin - The Coup
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When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweebish Georgy Malenkov, the wily Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrenti Beria -- the sadistic secret police chief. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains -- just who is running the government?
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"It's too late. The only choice we have is between his death or his revenge."
Prigozhin chose poorly.
1:16 Brezhnev is badass here
He is my favorite Soviet leader
Brezhnev is pointing gun at Beria
@@markoprskalo6127And here I had no idea that was Brezhnev!
It was an accident! An accident when the plane falls in a dive
Brezhnev was pointing the gun?? Is that creative licence or was he actually there???
@@markoprskalo6127 Brezhnev is the one who's searching Berija. Look at his eyebrows.
Colourised footage of my group trying to work on the group project planning
Beria is that one groupmate that would fuck everything up
I take it one guy wasn’t contributing anything or he tried to take all the credit. So you had him shot before he turned anything in.
@@whoknowswhocares885 yup! the court trial was a bit rough but I ended up ok
@KingArthurII *_I'm always the one that ends up leading the entire project_*
Molotov would be that one guy who constantly asks the teacher if everything is as they expected
Fun fact, when Stalin introduced Beria to Churchill he called him "our Himmler." Very accurate comparison. Stalin also advised his daughter to never be in a room with him alone, so Stalin definitely knew how horrible Beria was.
Stalins daughter WAS alone with Berija for a while, in the summer 36-37-38-39 is a very nice photo when Svetlana is sitting on the lap of Uncle Berija. There was one instance where Berija came to Stalin's home, and waited for Stalin to arrive.
When Stalin heard that Berija was at his home, alone with his children, he hurried home instantly. Stalin was very fond of Svetlana.
interesting. I know that during a Meeting with the German ambassador before Operation Barbarossa, he apparently also introduce Beria as "our Himmler"
everyone but me gotta learn ur cringe
You should read the book ''Stalin: The court of the Red Tsar''. It's very insightful and goes in full detail as to what was really going in Stalins inner circle and especially very detailed tales about Berias monstrous acts.
actually Beria was a pedofile. There was a lot of speculations about it even at that time. When you was 50 he seen a cute-looking girl at the street at send his NKVD goon to stalk her. Later it was found that this girl was 16, Beria raped her and thay had a bastard baby.
Zhukov is actually quoted as saying that killing Beria was _the_ most important moment in his life. Not ww2, not Mongolia, not even when he was pinned under his horse.
Killing this monster was the most important thing the Hero of the Union ever did and that really says something.
Is there any good documentaries or books(especially books) you can recommend to read about him?
The most important thing he ever did was invade Berlin and conquer Germany.
@@hardassteel there's a great line in the film where he says to Nikita ' I fucked Germany, I think I can fuck a fleshlump in a waistcoat' 😂
He was an incredible man and its good that this movie taught more people about him
Not without Rokossovsky he didn't
Zhukov is supposed to be the Soviet Man, while Beria is supposed to be everything the Union should have destroyed. The problem is, they’re both Soviet. I think that’s probably one of the main points of the movie.
I had no idea the post-Stalinist struggle took place in Middle England.
you learn something new everyday
@@Artur-fj5pn
It is a stellar cast though.
Where the hell is "Middle England?"
@@samtrotter7177 somewhere next to Middle Earth I guess
I noticed that too, but it’s actually a deliberate detail by the directors! It’s meant to demonstrate the different regions of the USSR that the top soviet leaders came from.
For example, Georgy Malenkov speaks in a very regal British accent because he was born in Orenberg into a wealthy family of Russian officers, while Kruschev talks in a working class American accent due to his youth in a poor Russian village.
The biggest accent is Stalin’s cockney, demonstrating his childhood in rough, poverty stricken Georgia and his brutish nature as a leader.
"This is a lavatory!"
"Well, you should feel at home then, shouldn't you, you little coil of shit?"
God I love this movie.
The answer of Mikoyan to Beria is a 10/10 for me! I like how Paul Whitehouse reply to Russell Beale in this scene!
“Fuck me. Georgy’s eyes really do follow you around the crapper. Weird.”
@@michaellynes3540 My favorite line in the entire movie.
Movie name?
@@omemahmud2963 the death of stalin
Fun fact: when Stalin died in 1953, the AK47 Type 1 was still top notch military technology that hadn't seen mass distribution yet (due to it being milled instead of stamped, a more time-cnsuming production method), so the vast majority of the armed forces still had the SKS and the old Mosins. It's a nice little detail that the only people seen with an AK in this coup are Zhukov and Brezhnev, which no doubt moved a bit of waters to be able to get them
They’re still using Mosins on both sides in Ukraine today, among so many other conflicts. They just can’t die.
@@5roundsrapid263 My favorite rifle is the Mosin Nagant it doesn't need oil at all, and it's so satisfying when you shoot it, its like getting drop kicked in the shoulder. You dont even need to reload the mosin, they're so cheap that you can just buy a new one when the ammo runs out. The best part about shooting them is the visit to to chiropractor after youre done shooting it. Or if you cant get to one, just use the next shot to put your shoulder back into place. I actually keep a mosin around the house, and use it as a hammer or if someone breaks in, i can use it as a club or pike, i also use the bayonet to make shishkabobs when babooshka isnt around. I once put the bayonet on the gun, and stood up, i took a one foot chunk of plaster out of the ceiling and my wife wouldnt talk to me for a week. And the smell when you buy 10 of them, you open the crate and are met with the smell of cosmoline, low grade shellac, and the 100 year old blood of facist pigs long dead. When i was on the pole vault team during high school, i find that the long poles were too flimsy, so i just used my mosin nagant, I won first place. When i was in the navy, i found that the deck cannons were too small, and secretly replaced them with mosin nagants, we destroyed 50 ships that day. One time i ran over a mosin nagant, my car exploded destroying the 50 mosins in my trunk... the thing wasnt even loaded and luckily i have another 500 at home, so it wasnt a big loss. One time i was out camping, and had no firewood, so i shot a tree. It was blown in half and now i had firewood. Once i forgot my lighter at home but had my trusty mosin with me, so i tried to light a cigarette with it, i destroyed the cigarette and my entire upper body. I once went to an airsoft battle with my mosin, and fired blanks, i won. When i was on my high school baseball team, i realized that bats are too expensive, so i used my mosin, every time i hit the ball it was so far away that rifles were banned from my baseball team. Instead of lawn darts, my family used mosin nagants for fun, they're 10 times as lethal for 1/10th the price. Once when i ran out of ammo and didnt have another mosin handy i just rigged it to shoot chain linked ammo. Once when i was playing moses in a kindergarten play, god wouldnt part the waters for me, so i just fired my mosin and the waters parted. Instead of truck nuts, i hang a mosin nagant on my trailer hitch. When going across the volga everyone forgot their boat oars, so we just used our mosins. When target shooting, i have to have the target at 150 meters away because at 100 the muzzle is going through the target. The mosin nagant has fought in many wars against itself, and has won every time. I shot a mosin nagant at work once, and its muzzle flash set off the sprinkler system. Once i was out of firewood and had 50 mosins in the trunk of my car, so i piled up 49 of them shot the pile and ended up starting a forest fire in an area with no trees. One of my mosins came free with the purchase of a bayonet. I once Shot a mosin into the ground, that area is now known as the Vredefort crater.
Mosin is love
Mosin is life
you talk about stalin and found traces of drugs in the white house?
Now I know why the AK and it's derivatives are so common in some parts of the world. Dirt cheap since millions perhaps billions were made and they last forever.
@@cynicat74 oh my fucking god 😂
"The army is back, did you miss us" was low-key impressive
They just nonchalantly cuck the NKVD, beautiful
What I love most is that Zhukov is both taking this whole ordeal with deep seriousness and treating it as a sunny afternoon game at the same time.
well... compared to defeating the Nazis and surviving Stalin's purges, this was a sunny afternoon game for him
His whole attitude during the film is that of a guy who knows he's completely untouchable since he's the idolized WWII hero with the army devoted to him. So he can troll anyone he wants and do stuff like punching Stalin's own son in the gut, completely secure in the knowledge that no one will stop him.
After WW1, The Revolution, ALL os Stalin's (and Beria's) Purges, WW2; this was basally nothing!
I'm going to have to report this comment! Threatening to do harm to a member of the presidium, in the process of ....
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Look at your fucking face!!
Zhukov fucked Germany! He can take that fleshlump in a waistcoat!
It's the disposition of a person at the top of their profession who still loves what they do. When you're that experienced, you already know what to do and expect, and you're so relaxed as a result that cracking jokes and making small talk just comes naturally no matter the seriousness.
Imagine knowing what kind of a monster Beria is, but you are unable to do anything because of Stalin. This moment must have been a gift from the heavens.
Indeed. It was alleged that Beria even molested Svetlana Stalin when she was a little girl.
@@thisisajang probably false , stalin would do something if he did somthing like this
Naah even Beria knew not to fuck with Stalin
The only day the soviet people were happier than the day Stalin died is the day when Beria died
Stalin knew that Beria was a sexual predator. Once he learned his daughter was alone with him, he called her and told her to get out of the house now. When Stalin was on his deathbed, in front of him, Beria began to mock Stalin. While this was happening, Stalin regain consciousness and appeared to recovered, Beria got on his knees, kissed Stalin’s hand and begged his forgiveness. This man was a true sexual predator and a coward. No wonder called Beria The Soviets “Himmler.”
Zhukov is what every man wants to be: fearless, badass, a war hero who is respected by everyone, with every soldier being willing to go through hell with you. And on top of that youre staging a coup against a sadistic mass murderer.
He was the only General who would stand up to Stalin...and one of the only ones he'd listen to.
@@charlesharper2357Rokossovsky did the same thing with during operation bagration and he made it alive as well.
@@lajsin
Don't know where you got that from...Zhukov actually pushed for the two pronged approach.
Zhukov, like the rest of Stavka, supported idea of one massive breakthrough that could be exploited, meanwhile Rokossovsky solely advocated for breaking main advance into several coordinated groups. Stalin placed all bets on Rokossovskys plan. @@charlesharper2357
Stalin's idea of a war general was IIRC Budyonny - who was still advocating the effectiveness of mounted cavalry...
The guy who plays Beria does such a good job. From being a malignant psychopath early on to the scheming and eventually as he realizes he’s dead. Just great acting.
Simon Russell Beale is an amazing actor.
Looks so similar, too. The man ballooned in his 50s
Georgy went from being head of government of the Soviet Union to being director of a powerplant in Kazachstan.
Malenkov as the part of Anti-Party Group lead by Kaganovich tried to oust Khrushchev from his post as the Gen Sec. But Marshal Zhukov saved him.
Normally, in Soviet politics, if you lose the power struggles the worse you get is getting demoted and shoved off to fill some backwater humiliating post, like becoming the ambassador of Mongolia (in the case of Molotov following the failed coup against Khrushev), or made to run a candlewax factory. Others just get retired early. The mass executions and the mass incarcerations in gulags were mostly a product of the Stalinist era and following it the Soviets actively moved away from such practices, even if they still do occur at a much reduced frequency and with far less lethality.
@@TheVoiceOfReason93 They realized they were scaring off the best and brightest.
That's kinda good, being head of a powerplant is kinda good for the time, it's better than starving to death or being tortured to death by the secret police
Malenkov outlived them all. After his overthrow he was allowed to live and eventually settled into a quiet retirement in Moscow. In quite possibly the greatest irony in history, Malenkov converted to Orthodox Christianity before his death in 1988 at the age of 86. In his final years he was very active in church services. One wonders if he spent his time praying for the forgiveness of the millions of people he helped to kill.
I love how Georgy only starts saying “he deserves a trial!” after they make fun of his portrait lmao
I think that was his poor attempts to try and regain control. Throughout the movie, Georgy thought he was in charge but now, he is realizing that it was Beria who had all the real power.
@@robertwalker5794 Or even earlier than that when Khrushchev all but told him Beria was going down and he naively thought he could demote him to “Minister of Fisheries”.
They really sound like best friends on highschool with zhukov leading the gang🤣
Priorities.
Здрава глиномесы! Вы нихуя не знаете про Россию..
“It’s too late.”
One of the most powerful lines in the film. Nikita wasn’t just talking about the coup when he said that.
2:46 For those that might not be aware, Molotov (Michael Palin) says he'll "spend a kopek" meaning to use the toilet. In British slang, "spend a penny" refers to the early days of public restrooms which charged a penny for their use to pay for their maintenance. A kopek is (or was) an Eastern European/Russian/Soviet coin, more or less analogous to a penny, or a European or American cent, worth 1/100th of the value of a Ruble.
I always wondered how that meant using the bathroom. Thank you.
Additional fun fact. The Actor playing Molotov is Micheal Palin. A British gentleman. I wonder if he ad-libbed this for laughs.
This one made me laugh so hard, and how all the actors are using their native colloquialisms
In Russia public toilets were often manned by some attendant, usually some retired person, and you would have to pay them to use it.
@@JB-uu8khven American public toilets were often coin-operated until the ‘70s.
4:06 “Stalin would be loving this”
He absolutely would. The drama, the betrayal, the chaos. Just his sort of entertainment
Literally has popcorn while watching this whole thing in the afterlife
Also he despised Beria anyway. He was useful to him, but absolutely not someone he liked or trusted.
I love how whimsically this line is delivered. Molotov didn't have many lines in the film, but this is a top one.
Stalin hated Beria, so ofc he would've loved this
@@WhyTho525Hell, Stalin didn’t even want Beria as head of the NKVD, (he wanted Georgy Malenkov as that) Beria was elected to the position by the Party.
"Why'd they hang a picture of my grandmother in here?" *chuckles*
"Stalin would have loved this"
In a really dark way these parts are kind of wholesome, just some lads (who would kill each other without batting an eyelid) having a laugh and reminiscing
Best part was that it was true. Stalin actually would have loved this. I think he would even walk alongside them with Beria begging Stalin for mercy. Perhaps Stalin would even have the pleasure of personally dragging Beria.
Its the ultimate goal in life; having a dedicated group of lads apart of something much bigger than yourself. This kind of camaraderie and jeering makes these fifty year old Soviet dinosaurs seem like high school seniors.
@@gregorylumban-gaol3889 And he would have. He really really wanted to kill beria for the longest time but what prevented him is Beria's Powerbase within the georgian Politiburo and his tight hold in the NKVD. Stalin on multiple occasion after the war had already decimated the Georgian Soviets in an effort to secure enough power to arrest Beria. He suceeded in destroying the georgians but it was not enough to secure Beria's Arrest.
@@citus333 Stalin tolerated Beria because he used to get the job done... after the war when Beria was trying to centralize power around the NKVD by using the georgian mingrelian minority (of which beria belonged to), Stalin purged them all, im talking about a small scale genocide of an ethnic minority... needless to say that after this 'incident', beria never tried anything 'funny' again, not to mention that he, out of every other ministers, was TERRIFIED of Stalin, and Stalin surely loved to bully beria more than anyone else
@@s3c0nd1mpact That's a really weird "ultimate goal in life"
I love the confident NKVD guys rushing into the room taking about 0.2 seconds to immediately lose their confidence and start pissing their pants when they see multiple army guys with AK's directly staring at them.
They knew they lost. Had they been first to react the situation would have likely been reversed and many of the turncoats within the Politbureau would have been sided with Beria instead to save their own skin.
I love the part at 1:29 where Zhukov just casually orders that soldier to kill those NKVD men that walked in. It's just as casual as someone saying, "Get me some coffee, will ya?" and it's so hilarious to me.
Yes, I loved that part too.
Hilarious, but also terrifying how everyone just accepts it.
Notice how Georgy was on his side until he looked at all his crimes on that paper
It’s pretty ambiguous. He didn’t head the trial when he had the power to do so but when he saw it he also didn’t do anything to save him.
He was a bit of a coward. At least in the context of the movie. I think he was afraid of Beria's wrath should the tables be turned, but he also didn't want to incite the wrath of his other colleagues.
Malenkov its a coward man
He didn't do anything because he know if he try save Beria he will getting execute too
That's a good detail.
It's funny that Jeffrey Tambor can play all of these comical roles but when he's playing a serious character he still manages to make him somewhat comical playing someone who doesn't seem to have a clue.
2:40 "How long before the army is here?"
-the Minister of Defense
God, I love this movie so much.
To be fair he couldnt really organize the troops "officially" to take over because Beria would have known instantly. A lot in typical coup instances works over the "second row" personal, in this case the generals, because they can act far more low key. it is not to unrealistic that he doesnt know exactly when his troops would be arriving because he propably didnt know where exactly they were waiting to spring into action. the coup units were most likely not still in their barracks and it is simple panic as well.
In reality this was a lot more "organized" and safe because Cruschev had managed to get Berias two top officers to betray him. They basically organized it that the nkvd wouldnt really be resisting the coup. it is indirectly shown by the nkvd officer here not firering on the soldiers despite him knowing the army is hardly there without previous notice to eat cake.
The whole movie summed up in one sentence.
@@noobster4779 Yeah
And if he wanted to mobilize them in the city Beria would obviously know because he is in charge of the NKVD which is basically internal security
@@noobster4779 Yeah because the NKVD would get fucked up by the army because all they are is personal while the army is the real fighting force
He most likely didn’t know how many troops were coming into the city
Dmitry Ustinov?
I don't understand how the Russians could call this an "insulting" portrayal of Zhukov - everyone else, but not Zhukov. Zhukov is awesome in this movie. I'd love to be portrayed like this in a film.
Zhukov was a super aggressive power grabber, often claiming others results as his own, ready to kill to advance his interests. But Russian Proaganda hides that fact trying to present him as just an obedient general
Because propaganda.
"You want a job done properly, call the army."
Yeah that reputation has slipped a little
I love how Zhukov is so fearless. Everyone else was afraid of Beria but him. Then again why would he be? He’s a war hero in charge of a giant army of men that would follow him through the gates of hell.
Difference between an army and party.
In the words of Zhukov
"I beat the entire German Army, I think I can handle a fleshbag in a waistcoat"
@@tyler89557 ‘I focked Germany.’
Even Stalin feared Zhukov.
@@xalthzdornier4805 Stalin feared Beria as well
But for reasons that would disgust even the most vicious dictators in history.
"What about Tukhachevsky and Pyatakov!? Did they get a trial!? What about Sokolnikov, who BEGGED him to look after his elderly mother, and what did this monster do, he STRANGLED HER in front of him! It's TOO LATE. The only choice we have is between his death or his revenge. And you will FUCKING SIGN THIS." Absolutely 10/10 kino from Buscemi.
Amen
I can think of a Mr. Madison who'd be glad to have called THAT guy. Where's that ELO coming from?
Poor tukhachevsky, the man who was first five original the marshal of soviet union along with voroshilov, got purged during Great Purge
And he's completely correct too, Solzhenitsyn would approve.
Though I feel like real life Khrushchev was probably not as moral as he is in this movie.
I can’t think of a lot of things more evil than strangling someone’s mother after that person begged for her to get good care.
0:48 I love the way that Zhukov forcefully marches over to Beria like an angry parent going to discipline a misbehaving child 😂
I love that Beria growls about “looking forward to peeling the skin off your face” to Zhukov, and yet he just mockingly says “not with that you won’t” whilst holding Lavrenti’s own knife. Beria was a cruel, terrifying monster who owned the KGB as his personal instruments of terror, but he threatened the man who marched from Moscow to Berlin slaughtering Nazis, and the one person in all of Russia who didn’t fear him: *Field Marshal Georgy Fucking Zhukov.*
The KGB didn't exist yet. It was founded the year after Berias death.
@@GabrielNichoBeria owned the MVD.
NKVD: the KGB was the successor
@@Peter43John The NKVD came first, then the MVD, then MGB, and then the KGB.
The portrayal of Zhukov kills me in this movie haha
He was hilarious
" Fock Me, Georgy eyes follows me in this room "
"Alright, what's a war hero gotta do to get some LUBRICATION around here?!?"
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0:43 - "Hands up or I shoot you in the fokin' face!"
"Spit it out Georgy, stagin a coup here."
That and when the NKVD soldiers take off, "go on, kill them will ya." 😂
I absolutely love how Zukhov is personally leading the coup. Like literally. Wielding an AK, ahead of the group, looking out for any Beria supporters until the army arrives. Fucking badass!!
Just like he said "I fucked the German army, I think I can take a fleshball in a suit"
@@HelghastStalker Don't forget feared. In this movie his ability to provide the heavy army support is what carries the day, and it probably did in real life as well; People were right to be scared shitless of him.
@James Hagan Actually no. The Bolsheviks were wary of any 'Napoleon' or 'Caesar' figures who could usurp the revolution and went far to keep a lid on the power of the army partly to prevent that. Apart from his outsider status and abrasive personality, Leon Trotsky was kicked out because of his role in forming the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, and many feared that he could use it to seize power. Zhukov would not be allowed anywhere near the Presidium - in fact, within a few years of Stalin's death and Khrushev seizing power Zhukov would be sidelined and forced to retire.
I love Jason Isaacs' portrayal of Zhukov in this film. Zhukov's daughter claimed that she was appalled, that her father never used foul language, etc.
Fun fact
They had to reduce his number of medals for the movie because if they portrayed how many medals he actually had it would one, look insane and two Isaac wouldn't be able to do any form of "advanced" movement (such as running), he would basically be reduced to a slow walk :p
“Speak up, Georgey, staging a coup are you?”
Is the most hilarious line from Zhukov in this.
Khrushchev snapping at Georgy was a real awesome moment.
You can hear the anger and frustration in his voice when he points out all the innocent men who were framed or killed by Beria, and how it’s B.S and a waste of time to put such a man on trial.
No. He just wanted it done quickly. It was always going to be a bullet and a bonfire. It's not the crimes he committed, it's how dangerous he was.
Or he put on a really good act
The most ironic about this is that they also werent innocent at all, thats the exact reason why they killed Beria, they didnt give a fuck about what he did they just wanted to silence him because he had info on all of them.
None of the other Soviet leaders, including Khrushchev, are what we call "good" people as they all have blood on their hands, but they all have the "we did what we had to do" attitude for (a) the greater good or at least the lesser of two evils and (b) in order to survive under Stalin. None of them are proud of what they did. Beria, on the other hand, is a sadistic monster who openly revels in the pain and suffering he causes. Understandably, they're disgusted and horrified by such a man and would want him gone.
@@mst3KGf Pretty sure Nazis had the same attitude? "Did what we were told/'had' to do". Doesn't make it right ultimately though.
I really like the line, "It's too late. The only choice we have is between his death and his revenge." It's not a funny line, but it really brings home the point that they've crossed the Rubicon.
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brilliant writing....the backbone of any great movie you really liked....
Fast forward to June 24, 2023. Russia is a timeless mess.
@@richardcoughlin8931 It is? Moscow looks fine, Paris is burning.
@@prebenjaeger Parisians rioting and setting the city on fire is pretty standard status quo stuff for France, tbh. In other countries, that might show signs of a crisis, in France it's just your run-of-the-mill Friday afternoon.
"GUARDS! GUAAARDS!"
Camera: Zooms out to two guards.
"You feel something?"
3:23 I love Steve Buscemi here, it's one of the best deliveries in the movie. When I first heard he was going to play Khrushchev I was skeptical but I'll be damned if he doesn't give perhaps the best performance in a movie absolutely stacked with top-class actors giving it their best.
Lovely little detail with the Army Guards beside the pillars. When Beria goes to the window he tells them to "Arrest that man, he's gone mad!" Neither move from their positions. Zhukov enters the room and when he sees Beria, he casually hands his rifle to the same guard that just blanked the most dangerous man in Russia. The power of command.
Beria (and even some of us) doesn't realize that the guards he think is just a normal NKVD (his men), but if we look from a bit closer it's the real Red Army, probably being planned to be there by either Krushchev or Zhukov himself.
@@asllen3310 Yeah if that were me I'd have my guys dress up as one of them
@@asllen3310 actually, the NKVD have blue caps. The Red Army has olive green
Don't forget the worthlessness of loyalty and the obviousness of Beria's fall.
@@tektoastium7241 yes that! the guards on the meeting room wore olive green caps! that the detail!
The two men who walked in at the wrong moment should have looked at Zhukov and said "We're with you." and stayed so as to avoid getting shot. They chose badly.
Not every NKVD personnel was killed (surrendered NKVD soldiers were just disarmed when the army reinforcement arrives). They were higher ups and had close ties with Beria. Unlikely that they would have been spared.
One of them is the man that Zhukov degrades when he first enters. He feminizes him saying 'stick you in a skirt' etc. The guy was part of the hated NKVD. Zhukov was probably always going to have him killed. He established dominance in his first words to him.
Fun fact, in real life two MVD guards DID walk in and stumbled across the coup! One of the generals immediately put them in touch with Bulganin over the phone who SOMEHOW managed to convince them to leave and not say anything! God what I would give to hear that conversation! (Translated of course) LOL!!!
One of those was Beria's assistant in the movie. He was always dead
@@Patrick_3751 The conversation would have been "you can go now and be quite, or, you can stay and go to a gulag". I am sure they were not stupid and knew what was going on, so they just did as they were told to do.
I love Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khruschev way more than I thought I would. But Jason Isaacs as Zhukov carries every scene he is in.
I still just can't get over how good Michael Palin is in this film. Transcendently funny but with such heart. A wonderful performance
In 1939, the USSR invaded Finland. It didn't go too well for them at first: Red Army tanks were forced to stick to the roads, which were easily blocked. Meanwhile the Finns (all of whom learned to ski almost as soon as they learned to walk) made a devastating series of hit-and-run raids on stalled Soviet columns.
In desperation, the Red Air Force started bombing Finnish cities. The world protested. Soviet foreign minster Molotov insisted that they weren't dropping bombs but emergency food supplies as Finnish civilians were starving.
When Finnish troops heard this, they told the Soviets "Here are some cocktails to go with the food," and lobbed petrol bombs.
Hence Molotov Cocktails.
Yes, Michael Palin's performance was great - but Molotov was not a nice man. If he had a heart, it was a very strange one.
@@lomax343 yes, they were all horrible men. It’s not a documentary.
“Spit it out Georgy, staging a coup here” Zhukov knew exactly what he was doing and how much of a crime it was if it didn’t work out, but he knew Beria was so despised that barely anyone would lift a finger to stop him.
Back then it was believed by many that Zhukov could probably have used his hero status to seize power for himself. Stalin believed this too and was worried.
@@SmartassX1 Yep. Zhukov was adored by virtually everyone. The army, citizens etc. That's why Stalin knew he couldn't lay a finger on him regardless how jealous he was. Stalins jealousy was worsened by the fact he wasn't Russian so he always felt like an outsider. So an actual Russian like Zhukov who was deemed a hero by the nation was his worst nightmare.
I love how the window required a key to open that he didn't have, and it was double paned to soundproof it.
In cold climates like Russia, windows are typically always double-paned so the heat doesn't escape so easily. They aren't specifically soundproofed
@@TheSuspectOnFoot just conveniently soundproofed
@@deadstareffect to be fair, lots of things are conveniently sound proof because of how sound works, when trying to keep something in or something.
@@animo9050 neat
I have lived in Kazakhstan where many buildings are designed and built in Soviet style and I can assure you most of their walls and windows are soundproof especially the "Stalinka" buildings
“Not with that you won’t” (holding his knife) kills me every time. The perfect response to Beria’s threat to peel the skin from his face. 😂
I love the detail of Zhukov taking off Beria’s belt, as this was a common way of preventing the escape of recently surrendered prisoners of war during WW2, a practice he’d be familiar with.
This moment is just as gratifying as the death of Stalin, but the world at large overlooks it because Beria was overshadowed by Stalin. This man was an absolute monster and the only objection you're likely to ever find to his death is that it was too quick.
You could kill him a thousand times over, in a thousand different ways, and it still wouldn’t be justice enough for everything he did.
It is however vastly amusing that in reality apparently his last words were “Allow me to say..” before being shot.
Clearly, he wasn’t allowed.
Look at it this way: Beria is forgotten by the world at large, considered a footnote in the stories of other men. What greater indignity is there then for a powerful man to be forgotten?
We know the ins and outs of Hitler. We know what he ate in the trenches. We know what he read in jail. We know everything there is to know about the man but ask your average college student about Beria and they wouldn't even know how to say his name. While it might be justice that he is forgotten, the world needs to know about this murderous history as much as they need to know about Hitler's brutal regime.
@@deanpd3402 if people wanna talk about Stalin they should also talk about Beria
Fun fact: Zhukov was 56 years old when Coup happened.
He was a young high ranking lad then.
@@xalthzdornier4805 well from what I gather the second world war gave lots of advancement opportunities. Between the German army and the NKVD, positions of power were always becoming available.
Ok
Woah. That’s very young for a general
@@Prauwlet213 Marshal, actually. That's higher than general. In modern times that rank nolonger exists, because no army is big enough to need it and because someone decided to make it fashionable that a civilian president should be the highest commander.
Also, the reason why russia had relatively young officers during and after WW2 was that shortly before the war, Stalin had purged the military and had all senior staff killed.
“Want a job done properly, call the army”😂😂😂I love this movie
"Spit it out Georgie! Staging a coup here!" LMFO! Jason Isaacs is brilliant.
“He’s got a knife by his ankle.”
Two things come to mind ..
1. I think the scene under plays just how much of a balsy move this was . If any of the committee wussed out , beria could have gotten away then they really would all be dead . Beria was a monster who loved to do.the torture himself .
2. Making Malenkov sign it in front of everyone cemented Khrushchev's authority . He may have been a progressive , but he knew what he was doing .
Edit : No one from the top down liked Beria. Stalin at best tolerated him , and Zhukov was literally itching for an excuse to drag him out by his collar .
I want to say that he got what he deserved in the end but he really didn’t. I don’t think there is a punishment in existence capable of avenging every thing this man did. Anything you could possibly do to him would just fall short.
@@Saurophaganax1931 Don’t worry. Satan himself no doubt greeted him in Hell the day he died.
@@robertwalker5794 nah, I think Beria got a place as Satan's Right Hand Man.
@@Saurophaganax1931 Lavrentiy Beria was a total psychopath. He locked up half of the Soviet Union, tortured, raped and killed hundreds of thousands of people. Stalin even feared Beria and his notorious reputation of rape, but kept Beria protected. After Stalin died, all of Beria's crimes, Beria feared, could be used as an asset. Beria issued reforms in the Soviet Union mainly to distance himself from Stalin's regime and the crimes Beria committed.
Stalin made a point to his daughter that she under any circumstances should never be in a room alone with Beria
4:31 Malenkov ordering his own picture removed is a nice detail.
Context?
@@gtbest5417 Pretty much acknowledging that Khrushchev is now calling the shots
@@blackpowderuser373 i think thats too because he fins the portrait extremely ugly hahahah. Its a Two way joke.
@@Joao-jx1lo He said that he wanted the portrait with his chin up to be destroyed
Was this one of those deleted scenes?
the switch from beria screaming at the top of his lungs and bashing the window to the gentle tapping outside slays me
I think this is one of the best movies of all time: Inspired directorship, cinematography, sound design, acting, actor selection etc. It seems so low key but does everything right. More please.
If you haven't seen "In The Loop" yet, it's the same creator and if you loved this, you will love that as well.
@@FloraWest Thanks. I'll watch it.
Beria looking like a idiot calling his guards is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen
Even Zhukov looked annoyed at that sight
That zoom out to the guards who couldn't hear him is an underrated funny moment
Strange things do happen after the passing of Stalin.
Is that a Saori cosplay?
Things were just as crazy after Vladimir Lenin’s death, with Stalin and Trotsky.
Nice pfp bro
@@brandonlyon730 Trotsky's alienation didn't help him
Fun fact: zukovs medals in the movie were less and smaller because they couldnt put all of his medals to the uniform
I think what really gets me is what this demonstrates. Everyone's terrified of Beria. He's an absolute monster with a list of atrocities as long as his arm, and longer. But Beria has no ACTUAL power. He can't crush skulls with his hands, or melt faces with his mind, or get shot and ignore it, or do more than just what one man with a weapon could do. All his power relies on others, the men he can order to do stuff, to strip away any other person's ability to defend themselves, so he can murder and torture and rape. The moment someone else does that trick (which ain't exclusive to him) better, he's reduced to an impotent, screaming child who dies just as easily as any other man.
That's what societies get brain-warped to forget. In the end, they're just one sack of meat and water, little different from ourselves. The harm they can do is based solely on what they can get others to do. And you get further with mass unit than smaller groups who follow orders out of fear or a desire to break stuff. The downside, of course, is 'who and how many are going to have to suffer and die to invoke that fact'...but it's always inevitable. Like it's said. His death or his revenge.
Also, I suspect, one way or another, this will be Putin's fate.
Jason Isaacs absolutely kills in this movie as a Yorkshire Russian military general. "Not with that you won't."
Also I always feel bad for the guards who walk into the room, realise shit is going down, and hastily try and back out again.
I felt bad too until realizing they were high ranking NKVD members. Basically these guys were the SS of the USSR so purging the higher ranks is absolutely a good thing, these men were awful human beings and deserved to die!
Those weren't just guards tho, they were NKVD. Many in the Red Army would have (rightfully) pretty big grudges against the NKVD
´´Sorry comrades .... wrong room!´´ Classic!!
They might have survived if they had surrendered their weapons and stayed as a sign of approval.
The guy who hides and gets shot is Beria’s right hand man, and he’s just as much of a scumbag. Seems the others get away
Steve Buscemi is so good in these type of roles. His antiheroes are never over the top and feel kind of relatable and human - even if they are amoral and corrupt. Exactly this is why I will always prefer his work as Nucky on Boardwalk Empire over antiheroes like Walter White. He delivers nuanced performances which are much more suble and complex.
If you had told me Steve Buscemi would play Nikita Khrushchev and pull it off really well, I would have laughed at you. Until I saw this movie.
It's the key this whole movie stands on. You recognize your working class uncle and your flimsy middle manager and your eccentric middle school pal in these people. There was something unusually ruthless and opportunistic about them... but it's amazing how much it disappears in their average-ness.
I think he would have done a great Beria, but this was a comedy.. twisted, but comedy
Well i would give my life for the motherland!
Nucky was a great character/anti-hero that I was so very happy to see get blasted in the face. Like Tony Soprano, his own actions and inactions led him to him rightly deserved demise.
So who else felt the need to come back and watch this today?
Yup.
Prigozhin was an idiot.
This is why all coups should start with you IMMEDIATELY securing the ruling office/building. Grab the heads of state, lock them up somewhere, and make sure they can’t send messages or make announcements without you standing off to the side pointing a gun or crossbow at them.
Prigozhin didn’t have anyone in the Kremlin who was willing to act on his behalf.
I love that during a COUP, Molotov is still somehow sticking to 'the rules of the party' with his "This is an ad-hoc motion!"
I love how those military guards just stood their like they didn’t care. They just stood there and followed orders when it was given to them. They were like Russian versions of the British Royal Guards!
Their job is simple. Follow orders of whoever in charge without questioning. Not get mixed up in political games on their own
Most likely they were in on it. Zhukov probably deliberately placed them there while Beria had the NKVD find scapegoats for the massacre.
Well... It's not a direct enemy attack but very clearly a coup. In totalitarian regimes people quite often prefer to be passive. During the 1991 coup against Gorbachev the army was also confused and preferred not to take action, which helped the coups collapse.
The guards guarding where relived
@@galshaine2018 Well I saw this in a different comment section in this video, Beria had the loyalty of the NKVD, who wore blue caps, like you can see outside the building, but the ones in the room wore olive caps, denoting them as members of the Red Army, and likely under the command of Zhukov. So they probably knew what their job was before the coup took place.
0:42 So hilarious when Zhukov enters with an AK, Kruschev stands up, begins to raise his hands, but first points to Beria, then proceeds to cover his ears expecting gunfire!
The added comedy of the NKVD barging in to see what was going on, only to see Zhukov and Red Army soldiers there, armed, and then try to run from the situation.
Beria & Yezhov's NKVD had torture and execution rooms made with inclined floors so that blood would easily run down into drains.
Beria got off easy for his execution.
The funnier part is, if you pay attention to the NKVD guards, is they aren't investigating what is happening, they're bringing in snacks. There are four of them and one of the ones in the back is holding a tray with food on it. Apparently irl a couple of MVD, the successor tot he NKVD, did walk in on the coup but were talked into being quiet.
@@Riku-zv5dk You're absolutely correct, it makes it even more funny.
"I'm just bringing in snacks but I see the Red Army here with AK-47s"
"You. Go and kill them."
But Beria begged for the same mercy his victims begged for.
It’s just amazing to me how Iannucci can make even some of the darkest and serious topics absolutely fucking hilarious. And with such ease of not holding back on the “serious” part either. It’s just this brilliant method of “just make everyone involved a smart-mouthed buffoon.” ❤️ (Probably wasn’t too difficult in this case though 🤣)
That comment about Tukhachevsky is just golden.
For Context, Mikhail Tukhachevsky was one of the first 5 Marshals of the Soviet Union, and was the one to set in motion the first Red Army reforms and pioneered the Deep Battle Doctrine, both would extensively help Zhukov and his peers down the line. He also had grievances with Stalin, as back when Stalin was still a Cavalry Commander, he refused orders to assist Tukhachevsky in taking Warsaw. This would lead to him being executed by the NKVD in 1937.
But I would like to add that Tukhachevsky was frankly just as cruel, if not crueler than Stalin, or even Yezhov, Beria's predecessor. He would use Artillery on rebels in Kronstadt, and sent men across the ice to die to enemy fire or his own machine guns. Once the rebels surrendered, he disregarded his promise of a pardon and executed them all. During the Tambov Rebellion, he even used chemical weapons.
I wouldn't go that far, Tukhachevsky was a brutal man and very militaristic, but I don't think he got any enjoyment from watching men die. He was just desensitized to it, he was more interested in women than any sort of edgy death streak.
Beria had nothing to do with his death though. When Beria came to power, Tukhachevsky had already been dead for more than a year.
0:27 - It's when Beria first hears about the "button" that he knows a coup is actually underway and he's seriously in danger. Great acting from Simon Russell Beale.
So the blue hats are NKVD and the greenish hats are Red Army.
lads with blue shoulder boards, gorget patches and caps with red trimming and blue covers are NKVD (technically should be MVD), the army drab ones with red trimming, red gorget patches and shoulder boards are Army
@@spartangaming1352 nkgb
Da (Yes in Russian)
The NKVD was a state security bureau that operated as Stalin's secret police. Basically political crimes that threatened his power. Their name, like many shadowy Soviet government names, was euphemistic and unassuming. "People's Bureau for Internal Affairs". Despite their uniform being similar, they were not military. They reported to the Ministry for Internal Affairs, not Defence
@@CodaMission They also had their own army, and even their own navy. Though the later was more of a Russian version of the coast guard, and I think their "army" was designated as a border guard.
Can't wait for the sequel.
I almost LOL when Beria was demanding the rights he refused to give to his innumerable victims!
Beria: guards! guards!!
Zhukov: oi
At 0:48
👊🤜😵🤕
Zhukov: Spill it out Georgy, we're staging a coup here.
Malenkov: He's got a knife by his ankle.
@@michaellynes3540 Beria: You're a disgrace!! 😡
@Muff Noudmiseni what did that have to do with anything?
Historically , Malenkov did press the button
That's what they wrote down afterwards, yes. That's why this satire works, you can't be sure it wasn't really like that, since everything was documented in the "right" way.
@@yomer355 bizarre.
@@yomer355 exactly
What happened was when Khrushchev loudly denounced Beria as an anti-communist and a western collaborator, the presidium erupted in rage. And before the votes were casted, Malenkov panicked, pressing the button under his desk.
@@michaellynes3540 and where did you find that information? Nikita Khrushchev lied during the infamous de-Stalinisation speech
This is an ENOURMOUSLY underrated film. It's worth seeing for the cast alone.
Moscow 2023 colorized
Tuckachevsky, who Khrushchev mentions to Malenkov, was a Soviet Red Army General and Armoured Warfare theorist who was killed during the Red Army purges.
He was a brilliant General same as Zhukov, if Zhukov was on the list of purges well USSR is good as dead by the German Reich
Had Marshal Tuckachevsky actually been listened to by Stalin and the Soviet military industrial complex moved to make more tanks to correspond with his brilliant work on armored warfare, the Germans could’ve quite possibly been stopped well short of where they advanced to in reality and quite possibly millions of lives could have been saved
@@zachhoward9099 With Zhukov and Tuckachevsky together, they could even do more damage to the Germans
But if Kulik and Budyonny together? These 2 dumbass can do more damage to their own armies
His torture was so brutal that there were blood stains on the confession paper they made him sign. Zhukov pays homage to him and his ingenious theories in his memoirs, though he, for understandable reasons, didn't mention the purge.
@@morepower1415 Well no. Not really a great tactician if you look at his records. His opponents were mostly inferior to his army and it usually took him two attempts to defeat them. Out of all the Generals that was purged, only he actually fought his way up in the wars and even then, his record is average at best. You could say Stalin was purging some Generals who were incompetent in their jobs.
Zhukov was a far superior commander and he didn’t need Tuckachevsky. I don’t think there’s any doubt that if Tuckachevsky lived, the Germans would easily steamroll the army he commands.
0:48 I love how disappointed and annoyed Zhukov looks when he sees Beria trying to run away like a Bit€h instead of staying to fight and die like a man. He even puts down his AK-47 cause he knows he won’t need it
the double punch is what had me laughing
the way Beria head rocked back from the impact of the punch
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Also later on when Beria gets executed by a shot to the head, he gives the soldier who did it a look that screams, "Hey, I wanted to do that!"
So if you were about to die, you'd just give up and take the bullet? Sounds like what a bitch would do. Men usually prefer to survive.
I love this section of the film. It's action action frantic action right up until Beria eats a bullet and then it let's off and everyone, including the audience breaths a sigh of relief. It's brilliant cinema.
this is the REAL face of socialism
And this is real footage
Just because it's politically motivated does not mean the accusations aren't true. 😏🤷♂️
The rape cases were likely factual
@@longyu9336 Stalin himself was very wary of Beria.
@@John-rn1nm yeah, when he heard beria was with his daughter, he immediately sent the nkvd to get her back
Tell that to Matt Gaetz.
John Vincent Olmos, i like your logo
Such a satisfying scene. I like how Kruschev reverts back to Nucky Thompson for a minute when he gets Melonkov to sign the execution order.
This video is going to receive a surge in viewership on June 23/24, 2023.
Outstanding film from start to finish. The entire film is its own highlights package. What struck me is how Steve Buscemi can switch from comedy to drama in a scene. But the cast is just beautiful. The appearance of Jason Isaacs’ Zhukov seemed to shift the narrative to top gear.
⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Staging a coup here"
Strangely relevant.
60 or so idiots smearing shit on a wall, nicking a podium and leaving when they got bored is hardly what I would call a vigorous attempt at a coup or subverting democracy. The six city blocks in Seattle last June that were taken over for a month by a figure as high as 10,000 on some days, that could definitely be considered an insurrection aimed at subverting democracy, but I doubt anyone who liked the above comment could refrain from performing the mental gymnastics required to disagree with me.
@@nervesconcord at first read i didnt understand what you meant then i realized you were talking about the raid on the white house not the coup in the burma which i thought prior comment meant.
@@kubikkuratko188 hahahahahaha
Not really, stop being a drama Queen.
@@nervesconcord Well I don't think anyone believed it to be an actual "coup". I just thought that it was funny I found the video in my recommended feed just as I got home from work one night and read what was happening at the Capitol at the time, and I made an off-hand comment just before going to bed not really thinking anyone would care but clearly I was wrong. For the record, I know it wasn't a coup, your explanation or whatever was unnecessary. I know your comment is two months old but people still are commenting on this two months from now and I seemingly have to explain a comment I didn't think would need explaining lol
Zhukov speaking with a British accent is freaking amazing.
That's awesome, but I also like Khrushchev talking like a mobster from New Jersey.
I can't recall where I saw it but I heard that they gave him a Yorkshire accent to make it clear he was a 'man of the people' and that he didn't take any shit.
@@javierpatag3609 I saw an interview with the production where they said they deliberately chose the accents of the mains to match their character. Zhukov was Yorkshire, indicating he was a common man who didn't take any shit, Beria was Cockney indicating he was shiftless and untrustworthy (don't yell at me, that's just the stereotype) and Khrushchev was classic Brooklyn, indicating he was clever, resourceful and likely to survive the purges.
@@benrig89 Yes and Stalin has a Cockney accent due to his background as a poor Georgian peasant.
@@benrig89 A Brummie accent would have been funnier.
I remember the first time I read the entire story of Beria’s downfall. Never has karma been sweeter. A monster who committed the worst crimes imaginable against women and children; crying and begging for his life knowing there was nothing he could do to save himself before he was rightfully executed.
Love this movie. All the performances are great. The director told the actors to use their natural accents because he thought it would help the actors focus more on performing their character rather than just the accents.
"I have been pitching this moment every day for the last three decades." ^^
*picturing
says the dude who did nothing to make it happen
"what button...?"
I mean, he's a Minister of Defense and supporting the coup but he doesn't know the detail of their own plan 😅
He wasn't technically in on the coup
afraid
@@Ghostkilla773 I watch the movie and I think he in on the coup and support it but did not know the planned of the coup
In reality Malenkov pressed the button himself, apparantly after Beria questioned him on what was going on.
The most beautiful moment of entire post ww2 history of USSR.
Prigozhin Vs Putin
Came here for these comments
The funny thing about Rus/Sov politics. One can be any character and you'd still get the same traits
Then I can portrait Brezhnev
I look exactly like his young version
Zhukov could've been the Ulysses S. Grant of the Soviet Union, having first led his country's armies to victory, then assuming political power. He was not as ruthless as Kruschev, nor as politically connected. World history would have been much different with a General Secretary Zhukov.
Yes but political rivals stood at his way and he’s already seen the horrors of war. He doesn’t need more stress by entering politics. The good man just wanted to enjoy life afterwards. Was a close friend with Eisenhower and Ike sent him a fishing pole because Zhukov loved to fish.
It was said he used the fishing pole Eisenhower gifted him for the rest of his life.
Grant didn't seize power in this soviet manner though, he was mild mannered and was propped up due to how unpopular Andrew Johnson was, if the Soviet system was close enough to the American one (where the leadership didn't have actual targets on their heads), then I'm sure Zhukov would have put more effort into being the leader.
He have no interest in ruling. He have the bearing of sovereign but decided to not use it. He was content seeing his soldiers fed and live well.
This is nothing but a wet dream of the west. You can think whatever you want about Zhukov as a military officer, but at the end of the day, he was part of that regime, and his loyalty is still to the communist party. In fact, Zhukov was even a more hard-line communist than Khrushchev. I mean, he was literally one of a few people in the leadership who supported military intervention in Hungary from the beginning, even when people like Khrushchev were skeptical. At the end of the day, the fact Zhukov was a communist just like the rest of them and although it would be interesting from a historical perspective having him as a leader of the Soviet Union, nothing much would change in terms of Soviet domestic policy or foreign policy.
@@failtolawl JFK and Lincoln: Am i a joke to you?
1:25 - Ssoorry comrades, wrong room.
- Go and killed them, will you
@KingArthurII The one thing? What, was the genocide of Ukrainians, political dissidents, and the middle class not enough?
@@magmat0585 this response is gold
That's the best part, the way he just casually says it and the soldier just nods without question, like: "Yo, no prob."
@@magmat0585 the Ukrainian part of that is extremely relevant now
You know after researching about beria the army guy taking the woman out of the building and saying "you're safe" has a whole other meaning
"His death or his revenge" -- clearly for becoming the monster that he is. Very good writing.
1:48 I want a 10 hours version of that sound
This movie is a masterpiece.
You gotta be shitting me, to call this spiteful caricature disgrace of Goebbelsian-like propaganda a "masterpiece".
@@maladetts get a grip its a film
@@wtw1427
I very well know it's a trash travesty film, and not a painting. Go sober up before giving unnecessary reminders.
@@maladetts alright little Stalinist, cant cope with someone taking the piss out of you beloved ussr?
@@maladetts Pretty sure Goebel's job was to make the common man target another group of common men.
This targets elite and alludes to the abuses of the elite onto the common. Very different.
Besides, Stalin's regime was a travesty, just as Lenin figured it would be.
I love the way the music picks up after the 1st shot like they're really going through with it
Beria was such unbelievable monster that this movie toned him down.
3:25 this is such an important line, because it shows just what Beria did. Malenkov demands a trial when so many others never got one, the monster dies by his own ways, the bloody instructions plague the inventor, if you will
COMRADE GENERAL SECRETARY, GET ON WITH IT!
- Marshal Ivan Konev
i just noticed he was another marshal of the soviet union.
@@aikonoklas and not just any Marshal of the Soviet Union, but his army group beat Zhukov's army group into Berlin by a day - thanks to the gross incompetence of Feldmarschall von Schörner, a dyed-in-the-wool favorite and suckup to Hitler, and his army group immediately collapsing before Konev's army group, while the actual badass Wehrmacht general, Generaloberst Heinrici, despite being hopelessly outmanned, outgunned, and undercut by Hitler transferring most of his tanks to von Schörner, held his line for three days (thanks in part to a couple tactical mistakes Zhukov made), before von Schörner's army group's collapse and Zhukov's resource advantages broke his army group.
@@theokamis5865 Zhukov was hardly a sophisticated military strategist. His favored method was overwhelming superiority of troops and equipment and barrel through the enemy. When he got creative, it backfired. At the beginning of the Battle for Berlin, Zhukov was opposite the Seelow Heights. The Germans pulled back to positions on the Heights, so when Zhukov unleashed his artillery barrage, all it really did was create a smoke screen. Zhukov then had the idea to shine searchlights at the enemy lines with the hope of blinding them. The light reflected off the smoke and disoriented the Red Army. Subsequently, because of his impatience, his attack bogged down.
It's uncanny how this comedy sticks to actual events more than most dramas based on real events.
When I first watched this movie years ago, I didn't really understand what was going on, who all these historical people were, and didn't really understand the humor. But it got me interested in Soviet history, and after studying it more and learning about its leadership, inner workings and bureaucracy, I can finally enjoy this movie a lot more.
*Random soldiers* "Wrong room sorry"
*marshal zhukov* "So you have choosen death"
NKVD, it's like SS or If democrats\cia in merica do their own army