Stalin Page #6

Do you.

Get his confession and get rid of him,

Yezhov.

Come on, Grisha, come with me.

First, they told that Kirov was killed

by a personal enemy acting alone.

Now they say it was a conspiracy.

It probably was a conspiracy.

- But whose?

It's like the burning

of the Reichstag.

The Nazis' done it themselves

and blamed it on the RMS.

What are you saying?

Grisha!

Why won't he come to me?

- A fox has a mind of its own.

Even a red fox.

It was now a crime

to criticize my father or his policies.

It became treason.

Bukharin and my daughter

with his beautiful young wife.

And his fox.

He calls his fox Grisha,

your name, Zinoviev.

It's a common name.

Yes, of course.

But... admit that Bukharin...

named his fox after you.

Koba.

- Admit it.

Possibly, but he never told me.

- Admit It!

Yes.

- Yes, he named his fox after You.

Yes, Bukharin named his fox after me.

- Koba...

Is it... it's easy to tell the truth.

So, why do you keep lying

to comrades Yagoda and Yezhov?

Are they're being too kind to you?

Koba, let me tell you from experience

we shared,

that Tsar's police were gentle

compared to these...

And where is the Tsar now?

- Koba, you know us.

We were side-by-side, side-by-side

always trough the old regime.

We are still side-by-side

together with you.

Under the inspired leadership

of Lenin and Stalin.

How can you even believe that we

are going to conspire with com...

with Trotsky to kill... comrade Kirov?

Traitors!

This... these tell that

comrades Zinoviev and Kamenev

went along with Trotsky...

How did you come by these "confessions"?

How are they obtained?

We can't tell you, Koba.

- Perhaps they don't understand the law.

Measures against crime, among minors:

Children of 12 and over are subject

to all measures of criminal punishment

including...

Including death.

Yes, including death.

Tell comrade Kamenev about

the evidence against his son.

You son has been on look-out... near

comrade Stalin new dacha outside Moscow.

Preparing an attempt on Stalin's life.

Impossible! He is only fourteen!

Evidence.

- Fabrications!

Evidence!

- My son would never...

How can you ask us to say

that we scheme with Hitlerites.

Who would believe that?

Anyone who hears and reads confessions.

And everyone in the world

who hear and read and believe.

Shoot them.

They must be SHOT!

Shed the blood of old comrades;

is that what you want, Yezhov... ?

If we agree:
you promise that

no-other old comrades be executed.

Their families will not be harmed?

- The families, that's important.

And our lives, too?

Of course,

all that goes without saying.

Koba!

They've lied to us! They lied to us!

They promised we would not be killed.

This, our families... he said our families

would not be hurt... he promised it,

he said it that if we confessed we

would not be killed... he promised it...

We were promised our lives

if we confessed.

Comrade Stalin

has revoked his promise.

Grisha, shut up!

Be brave! Show them how men

who stood with Lenin can die.

Not possible!

And a comedy.

Could you do that? No, no.

- Anatomically... no-no.

There goes our honor to Nikita,

N. Khrushchev, already boss of Moscow.

You've come a long way from Ukraine,

Nikita. Builder of our glorious Metro.

To our Nikita!

Like Lenin... ha-ha...

Show me your hands, Nikita.

Dirt under the fingernails!

- Oh-o-o

Can you imagine he comes to Stalin's

table with dirt on his fingernails!

It's really bad.

- They are working on the field.

Listen to these gentlemen: their hands

are clean and their nails are manicured.

Look!

These hands don't do work anymore. These

hands are the hands of a gentleman.

Put all your hands out.

All these gentlemen hands have

forgotten their proletarian origins.

Nikita.

To Nikita!

You did... now do the other-one.

No-no. Do Zinoviev again.

Surprised that you didn't look this

execution of Zinoviev and Kamenev.

You've sent Beria!

Ah, because I thought you

may have not the stomach for it.

Wouldn't have been the first

execution I have witnessed.

Not, but in your heart you're still

"the Pharmacist. "

Yagoda concocting poisons;

putting to death, making plots,

conspiracies;

... taking part in it.

Yezhov is replacing you.

Take that back to Moscow.

You, stinking dwarf!

Your turn... will come.

Anya! Anya!

Kamenev and Zinoviev have been shot.

- What?

Not only them.

And I heard a rumor -

they implicated me.

- What?

How can that be?

- These days anything is possible.

Old comrades are falling all over its way

to implicate all the old comrades.

And try to save their kids.

If Lenin had only lived...

- Be careful!

Yes. Yes.

Police, strange things

that have happened to me.

He knows that I understand

why Kirov was killed.

I've seen through his scheme,

the mass conspirator.

Accuses everyone else of conspiracy.

Eviction notice! You have one hour!

But... how can we make...

my books, my... my papers, my...

wife, our child.

Those are my instructions. Out!

One hour!

Hello?

- Nikolai, how are you?

Are you there? It's me, Koba.

How things're going?

I... I'm being evicted!

- What?

The house's full of soldiers.

- Who get to the heart of this?

No, who, the hell,

does tell you to go out?

For you. Comrade Stalin.

Hello!

Who gave you those orders, who? Who?

Comrade Yezhov.

Comrade Yezhov?

Comrade Yezhov is an idiot!

Get out of there - go! Out! OUT!

He would say Stalin has not

a sense of humor, Yezhov.

bFebruary 18, 1937/b

I'm coming to drink with your husband.

- He's expecting you.

You took flowers

to Nadya's grave yesterday.

Thank you.

It's for you, open it.

If N. Bukharin is an enemy of the people

then none of us is beyond suspicion.

Yes, yes.

You understand why it's happening?

- No.

I thought so.

These are dangerous times, Sergo.

We are getting stronger,

our enemies wouldn't allow this.

Enemy agents have penetrated

everywhere including high positions,

doing all they can

to wreck our economy.

Anyone to follow the murder of

Kirov wants the murder of Stalin.

I need your help, Sergo.

- You have it.

I want you to testify against Bukharin.

- Bukharin?

Yeah, you're close to him.

Your Zina - his Anya Larina.

You are not in the string.

Bukharin confides in you.

Approve your friendship to Stalin.

Prove your loyalty to the state.

You want Me to denounce Bukharin?

So that you could put him on trial?

Shoot him! Why go through all that?

Make it simple.

Our grate leader

defends the Soviet people.

Here.

You do it.

You shoot Bukharin yourself.

Have you got the guts?

Put it down - we've seen guns before,

they don't frighten me.

Put it down. There.

So, you won't denounce Bukharin, huh?

When your own brother

has denounced you.

Your brother has confessed

that you, Sergo,

gave orders as commissar

of heavy industry

for excess sabotage and wrecking

in the factories.

My brother has confessed?

You must admit there had been

too many incidents, too many.

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