Stalin Page #4

I...

Torture is wrong!

My son!?

And you're trying to...

to educate this hopeless idiot?

It's a... a copy of Lenin's testament,

er, as they call it.

Printed in large numbers by

a secret press in Leningrad.

"Stalin is too rude. "

And what a role does Zinoviev

play in this matter?

Zinoviev?

He's a party boss - do you thing this

could happen without his complicity?

I think he's on your side.

He supported you against Trotsky.

A temporary maneuver.

Sergo,

I think you could go to Leningrad.

May be you could persuade the comrades

there to get rid of Zinoviev.

Find a replacement...

a good communists,

attractive personality, ...

but... who, ... who could we get?

Kirov?

- Kirov.

You worded with him in the Caucasus?

-Yes, he really shoves things up.

A good man, people like him.

Reads books, likes music, ...

a well rounded fellow.

It's very good, Sergo, very good.

Why didn't I think of him? Very good.

Comrade Kirov!

- Comrade Kirov?

Good.

Comrades! Sergo!

What do you got?

What is this? What?

You killed it yourself, huh?

- A single shot.

How far?

- 10 meters.

No - wait, wait!

You stood 10 m away from this?

I don't believe that.

Who could do it, I mean,

Who could do it?

Could you do it, Iron Pants?|

Wouldn't be iron your pants, would it?

You're going to Leningrad

to replace Zinoviev.

Sergo's going, too, and Kaganovich.

I'm counting on you!

He shot this from 10 m, Yagoda.

Don't you admire a man like that?

And watch him.

Go to Leningrad and keep an eye on them.

Especially, ... especially Kirov.

Yes.

bJanuary 1928/b

My parents, my brother Vasily and I were

on our way south to our winter home.

We stopped at station after station

so that my father could flex

the party muscle

for local officials

who have been summoned there

by regional party boss

Lavrenti Beria.

What is to be done?

The harvests have been good;

I could see the fields from the train.

But the grain is not being delivered,

why is that?

Is it because the peasants

have been told

they can, if they wait,

obtain better prices

and become richer at the expense of

everyone else?

Who, who's told them this, who?

Comrade Stalin, I'm not sure

you understand the situation:

the state offers low prices,

unreasonably low prices.

The state wants us, peasants,

to work for the benefit

of the people of the cities!

There's grumbling in my district!

Party officials

could do not understand our peasants

come to the villages threatened.

The peasants complain that when they sell

their grain they receive nothing in return.

There is nothing for them to buy.

I asked what is to be done

and did you give me answers - No!

Only complaints.

Did you give me a solution? No.

So I will give you mine:

You will demand the surrenders of all

stocks of grain at the existing prices.

Anyone who refuses,

you will confiscate his grain.

You will bring anyone

who opposes you to justice,

under article Number 107

of the criminal code,

which, I remind you, prescribes severe

punishment for any kind of speculation.

But comrade Stalin...

Those are your instructions. These measures

will be applied throughout the USSR.

Thank you for your ideas.

80 % of the Russian population

were farmers

who lived and worked remote

from party control.

For my father

this represented a real danger.

Those he could not control might later

become enemies.

What'll happen to us... ?

- Our children... ?

Dont you understand...

- Comrade Beria, please...

Come on, come on. Go!

Come here! Come! Come.

Lavrenti Beria came to our house

for the firs time that year.

I would see him often.

He always frightened me.

He's a pervert.

- Beria?

Sergo knew him in Georgia.

Even before he became party boss.

He kidnapped this girl. He raped her.

He forced her to marry him.

He still rapes women. Young girls.

He's thriving around.

He sees someone. He says:

"Bring her in!"

And then he says: "If you don't want

something to happen to you

or your family... "

Sergo hates him.

Why doesn't he say something to Josef?

- He did.

And your husband said: "Mind

your own business!" Just like that.

I'll talk to him.

You're declaring war on the peasants!

Forcing them to give their own land...

and move on to state collective farms.

Already they're shooting their livestock;

they're eating their seed grain...

If you continue there will be a famine!

- Bukharin, you are too soft.

There are reports that some peasants

have already been shot.

Without trial. Thousands have been

sent off to labor-camps, why?

Do we have to starve the country

to feed the city?

The Politburo never agreed.

I know everyone's position.

But Lenin always said:

"In the party we discuss and we debate. "

Don't try to bring Lenin

into this, Bukharin. I know Lenin.

I'm going back to Moscow.

What will happen to Nikolai?

Josef allows no-one

to stand up to him.

As you know he forced Trotsky

into exile.

He doesn't forgive, he doesn't forget.

Zina, he trusts no-one,

not even Sergo.

My Sergo, his oldest friend?

Oh, you're imagining things.

He hates his own son, Yakov,

humiliates him. No!

The only people close to him

are his own creatures:

this evil pervert Beria

who is not coming here again.

Kaganovich, Molotov, Voroshilov -

those!

He loves you.

- Does he?

Yakov!

What happened?

- He wants to get married, I won't have it.

Why, who is she?

- She's Jewish.

So?

- So, you want him to marry a Jew, huh?

How can you say that? Huh?

How can you feel that?

Mammy!

- Get the doctor!

A flesh wound!

- The doctor! And get Vasily out!

An idiot! Can't even shoot him right!

My son!? He-he...

Yakov survived.

But my mother soul was wounded.

She'd... haven't enough of sleep.

Nadya!

What had she been doing in Leningrad?

I've left him.

No! Nadya!

Nadya, you don't understand...

YOU don't understand.

I do. Of course, I do.

He's... he's...

Do you want us to call him?

No... no...

Not yet, no...

You had an argument?

He is... suspicious of everyone...

vicious, cruel!

Well, he has some rough ways, Koba.

- He is not Koba, he's Stalin.

Of course, he is Stalin,

he has to be Stalin!

Why would Russia be

if he weren't Stalin?

He... he's been cruel to you?

But he's a good father? You've said

many times he loves his children.

He has... somebody else?

- No.

Not, of course not. He has burdens.

All the probles:

straddling the selfish elements,

wrecking in the industry, sabotages.

The countrys in crisis, he needs you!

But, Sergei!

- You can't desert your husband!

You're overtired.

You stay here a few days.

All-right. All-right, I'll call him.

I'll explain to him you're tired,

worn-out, ... distraught.

Oh, you need time, Nadya,

to think calm,

and carefully.

If you don't go back, ...

what is going to happen to you?

To all of us?

You are the wife of comrade Stalin.

You have his children.

Why don't you see? You are

not anymore an ordinary person.

He's probably worrying the worse...

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