Stalin Page #3

one single copy for Lenin,

single copies full of good news.

What a waste of money

just to keep me out of politics!

It's to help your recovery.

No, to keep me out of politics.

- No.

So, ... I'm not to know

what's going on in our country.

I'm forbidden to read

our own newspapers.

Let's comrade Lenin read

your fairy-tales.

What nonsense, what Damn... nonsense!

No, its to speed your recovery,

we need your recovery.

We need comrade Lenin's leadership.

How can comrade Lenin lead,

if he's denied information?

Politics... doctors ordered...

Doctors orders?

Not Stalin's orders?

- No.

The situation in Georgia,

you are a Georgian, you... you...

There's nothing to worry about...

we need your health.

The re... rev... The rev... v-v-v...

Why did you call Trotsky, you stupid

b*tch! Didn't you think I would know?

He's not to meet with Trotsky

or anybody!

What're you trying to do,

to kill him? B*tch!

bJanuary 21, 1924/b

Lenin's dead!

My father understood how much

the Russian soul craved the God.

Now that religion was illegal,

it was his idea to embalm Lenin

and have him placed on

a permanent display in Red Square.

Comrade Molotov,

where's comrade Trotsky?

You were instructed to...

to find him and bring him here.

What happened?

I did reach him. I...

I told him the funeral was yesterday.

He was too far away to make it

yesterday.

You lied to him, why?

You told me.

You didn't want to have him here.

You were to admit that to no-one -

true or false?

True.

Then why are you telling it to me?

You're a real idiot, Molotov.

You will go far...

Leaving us,

comrade Lenin has ordered us to

hold high and keep pure...

the great calling of our party.

Leaving us,

comrade Lenin is enjoining those

who keep the unity of our party!

Together we vow

to keep the honorable commandment,

comrade Lenin!

We had an argument this morning.

About what?

- Nikolai.

Bukharin? But he likes Bukharin?!

Nikolai offered me a job

on a new publication:

"Revolution and culture. "

Josef says:
"The next thing would be

spending all your time

with Bukharin's bunch of bohemians,

useless poets, artists. "

And you said they're not useless.

- I said they're far from useless.

That the revolution needs culture.

- Exactly.

Then I put my arms around him

and then he apologized.

Then you made love?

It's this so terrible business of

Lenin's death.

What's going to happen now,

who's going to lead?

Josef says there's sneaking

behind his back, conspiring...

Who?

I'm to get started, Zina.

Da.

Da!

Beautiful flowers.

Their life is too short.

What is it?

The telephone called - another letter...

- What letter?

A letter, that Lenin sent

to the central committee

to be opened after his death.

What does it say?

You know nothing about?

No, nothing.

You worked to Lenin.

You were close to him.

You heard no-one talking about it?

No.

You, sneak!

I know nothing about it.

Josef!

They got it to the b*tch Krupskaya.

Trotsky.

Yes:
Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev...

The three little weasels!

Don't say that!

Mice.

But the Georgian cat can make a deal

with them and then...

Comrade Lenin also wrote:

"Stalin is too rude

and his fault becomes intolerable

in one who holds the office of

General Secretary.

Therefore, I propose to the comrades

to consider a means of removing

Stalin from the post

and appointing another person:

more patient, more loyal,

more attentive... "

No!...

- I'm the less...

No! Trotsky...

- Let Trotsky speak...

This is the end of Stalin...

Let Trotsky speak...

Talk to them! You're the only one

who can rid us of Stalin.

Let's Zinoviev deliver the blow.

Please, please!

For all of us Lenin's words

have special meaning in a way.

But in the long period

when comrade Lenin was unable to lead

it fell upon us:

comrades Kamenev, Zinoviev and Stalin -

to provide collective leadership.

Our experience makes me happy to say

that comrade Lenin's apprehensions

are not well-founded.

So, I propose to maintain

Stalin in his post.

This is an outrage!

Lenin was ill.

- Comrade Zinoviev, ...

Lenin was right!

- We should listen to Lenin!

Let's Trotsky speak!

Let us agree that

Lenin did write those words...

He betrayed you!

Yes, comrades, I am rude to those

who wreaked and split the party

and I have never conceal this

and I DO not conceal it now.

Not to be gentle is better than...

it is not really to be like...

Krupskaya.

I am not free to desert my post.

Twice!

Twice I try to resign

and twice I was told

to remain at my post.

I obey the party. It is my obligation

that I remain at my post.

Trotsky wasted his last chance

to stop my father.

He underestimated the man who he called:

"The Mule" and "The Mountaineer. "

I'm Yakov.

Your son.

- I know.

Why do you come here?

- He's come to Moscow, to study.

It's... it's better here than Tbilisi -

to the schools, I mean.

What you're asking me:

you think you can just walk in here?

Get out! Go! Out! Go!

- I've given your son our spare room.

No, no! You... don't worry.

He'll be all-right.

Why, Josef? Why?

You never even told me you had a son,

why?

When his mother died he was two months

old - you haven't seen him since, why?

Did you hate her?

- No.

Have you loved her?

- She was a young Georgian woman,

uneducated, religious.

- How far you didn't love her?

She was young, I was young...

- You've never even talked about her!

She's dead, Nadya.

- Oh! The door is shut, the room is sealed!?

And you never thought about her?

- Dead is dead.

And if I die?

Don't say that.

- If I die would you abandon Vasily?

I didn't abandon Yakov;

I left him with his sisters.

Who would you leave Vasily with?

Want you other child?

What other child?

The one I'm caring, I'm pregnant!

You are pregnant; you - pregnant?

Why didn't you tell me, why?

- I made sure today.

Let Yakov stay!

Josef.

Josef!

Look at them conspiring.

They play Trotsky against me and me

against Trotsky.

They thing they'll climb upon top.

I'll strike first.

Comrades, who do you thing

is shipping off?

It's Trotsky, Lenin's friend!

My father! Comrades, stop them!

No! It's Trotsky, Lenin's friend!

He is my father! I can't believe this!

No! Don't take him! Why is taht?

No-o-o!

He fought against the imperial army...

In 1801 Alexander I outlawed

the use of torture.

"The very word "Torture", " he said,

"is a disgrace to human race. "

Disgrace.

I'm helping Yakov prepare

for his exams.

You agree with Alexander?

Your opinion, brilliant student!

You agree or not?

A little discussion.

Let us say that you are

an army commander:

It'll never happen, of course,

but let us say it...

They bring you a prisoner

who has vital information

that could save the lives of your...

your command...

He's stubborn, he... he won't talk.

He spits in your face.

What you would do, Yakov?

- I... I don't know.

You let your men die?

- No?

Yakov,

how do you save them, huh?

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