Also the scene were Beria comes into the room, with Stalin and the rest of the Politburo, mocking and crying like Zinoviev did when he was pleading for his life before Beria shot him.
Of course the story is, when it was Beria’s turn to go, he cried like a little bitch, too.
What vile men they were. No small part of my Cold War era education in history was learning the ideological distinctions between various Soviet leaders and factions. The truth of course was that they were more gangsters than anything else, with their supposed ideas a form of drapery over the wretched nature of the Soviet regime.