[Boiler Plate]

Very Funny movie. Mostly because it is probably true.

[COBOL2Java]

Very Funny movie. Mostly because it is probably true.

"There's nothing funny about it!"

[Stosh]

“Mostly because it is probably true.”

I think we’d be surprised how much of it is factual (or at least close to factual, with a cynical spin, of course). After I saw it for the 3rd or 4th time, I started reading up on Stalin, and some of the most bizarre stuff started to make sense.

For example, there’s the scene where they open Stalin’s skull once he’s kicked off. Well it turns out that Stalin had ordered the collection of the brains of prominent Russkies after their death so they could be studied. Whether it actually happened with Stalin himself or not I don’t know, but it is a plausible plot detail.

[Rockingham]

The script relied on the work of the late Robert Conquest and other well-regarded scholars of the USSR. The atmosphere of antic, fearful obedience and constant plotting around Stalin is accurate.