A Pitch Black Comedy

Rating: 8/10 (14 October 2018)

Sarah Silverman said that her niece was learning about the Holocaust and how Hitler had killed 60 million Jews. She corrected her niece and said that he had actually only killed 6 million. The niece ask her what was the difference to which she said "60 million would be unforgiveable.
What Stalin did was unforgivable. This movie takes understandable liberties, with the true history, for the sake of story telling. For instance the execution of Beria actually happened months after the death of Stalin. Some of the events were made up but totally plausible.
The movie has moments of absurdity that act as a sort of apocryphal commentary on the obscenity and atrocity filled regime of the Stalin years.
If this movie is propaganda it is only just, as it is more factual than not. Any assertion otherwise is ridiculous.
One commenter here even accused it of racism which is, of course, moronic.