Educational and fundamental history

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2019)

I am disappointed about how few cold war movies are made. It was such a long period of time 1945-1991, that it deserves to be more explained and studied. Essentially the movie covers the period shortly before and the afterwards following Stalin (the soviet dictator) death in the 50s. There is a power struggle, and apparently all intelligent and independent thinkingn in Russia has vanished (there is a scene where they observe that all good doctors were executed). We understand how the Russia of today is such a brainwashed nation. It is because genration after generation, people was trained to worship the rulers who were torturing and murdering them (in the movie, the victims pledge allegiance to Stalin before being shot to death by his thugs).
The paranoia is constant, and normally the people with power would send to die their own friends ot family, just to show loyalty to the party. It is crazy, but it was the reality. Nowadays, if you talk to any Russian, he would say that those times were great, but that collective a,nesia, ignores the fact that anyone who was not supportive of the regime, woupd "vanish", so the majority that remained alive was the hardcore supporters, and the ordinary people who adapts to any situation in order to survive.
Schools shpuld be showing this movie in history class, so the new generations could learn what it meant to live under the worst refime in the 20th century. It is totalitarianism, but with the point of view of the bigwigs