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[@sumvs5992]

Apparently Zhukovs medal count was reduced for the movie, his uniform was covered in them, presumably looking like the modern NK generals.

[@svampen7782]

Except he was an actual war hero not just from WW2. NK Generals are like that Obama medal meme.

[@demonsuckafucka6828]

Zhukov was probably the greatest marshal of all time

[@Somewhatannoying]

@@demonsuckafucka6828it was yazov

[@evolad2463]

@@svampen7782 nk generals have the 3 generation rule you wear the medal of your father and grandfather....atleast do some research

[@donradkos6655]

Fun fact in the lower right (from the viewer's perspective) side of his chest sits the Virtuti Military, Poland's highest military honor. Awarded to Zhukov in 1945

[@CMY187]

“This is a disgusting piece of excrement.” Even Stalin made sure to never leave his daughter alone with Beria.

[@AnikaJarlsdottr]

Beria's house was bulldozed after his execution and they found the remains of several young girls who had been reported missing, buried under the floor of his basement. the pos was a legit serial killer.

[@cheeseninja1115]

While this movie is a dark comedy a lot of its plot point actually happened. The orchestra and pianist being one, though her real letter was better worded it was still enough to have gotten her killed had he not had the stroke. They even waited till the maid came in with his dinner to see if he was safe cause Stalin literally killed a guard cause he came into his office cause the guard thought something happened.

[@bethanbaker7066]

The letter was sent and the piano concert happened in the early 40's though which is a difference. Stalin had years to kill her and chose not to because she was very talented and his favourite pianist. I learnt this from a video by HistoryBuff on KZbin but all their videos are well researched and go over the truth first and then inaccuracies and what actually happened.

[@lizd2943]

The guards being too scared to go in when they heard him fall really happened.

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

Lovely reaction but I feel your frequent pausing may have hampered the grandeur and emotional effect of some moments, Zhukov's entrance, for example.

[@TheGallantDrake]

Perhaps, but it’s difficult to tell as a third party whether or not the moment was really diminished for the viewer. Only the viewer can truly say.

[@otamanvasyl9949]

4:13 I will quote Stalin on this: "Beria? Oh, he is our Himmler".

[@Jelperman]

Supposedly, Stalin had a stroke while re-reading a letter from Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. Tito wrote to Stalin, saying that his men had caught one of Stalin's hit-men trying to kill the Yugoslav leader. Tito then threatened to send of his own men to visit Stalin in Moscow if the assassination attempts didn't stop immediately.

[@Notna-e5s]

haha that's a lie

[@alexfilma16]

@@Notna-e5s "Supposedly" is the key word in that comment.

[@Notna-e5s]

@@alexfilma16" supposedly" implies a degree of truth. This is just fantasical

[@TheDeathOmen]

@@Notna-e5s Well, the letter from Tito to Stalin was very much real which Stalin held onto for the rest of his life and never sent another, since Yugoslavia and Tito never bent the knee to Stalin. Which read as follows: “Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send another.” But Stalin was not reading that letter when he had the stroke that killed him.

[@rhysthomas1699]

Zhukov truly embodies the title "Over-Achiver" to the extreme with those medals & his arch-rival is a magnet.

[@weebleman6]

Bro he said two words you dont have to pause to explain the entire character immediately 😂

[@cutthr0atjake]

This film was accurate, the one thing they changed was the time frame.

[@t.c.thompson2359]

I am NOT a fan of Dick Cheney, but comparing Beria to Cheney is just awful.

[@schaddenkorp6977]

Yeah, it’s like comparing C4 to Playdough.

[@nickinskeep]

I agree. I think the physical similarities have something to do with the comparison, not saying it's fair though

[@jostpolc3858]

Zhukov was so badass! Only person that Stalin and Beria were affraid of

[@JoshSweetvale]

There's also the idea that Stalin didn't wanna break what worked and Zhukov didn't give a fuck what Stalin did as long as he kept making guns.

[@Lgs260495]

A dark comedy done right

[@MrQuinn-tc3uo]

No,most of this happened, just time compressed, and told out of order.

[@RedAmerican-qq6cc]

Nice to see butler get a little shoutout. If there’s any American military general who needs a movie or miniseries it’s him.

[@Methalec1985]

The dude knows about Hitlers circumstances but has no idea who Zhukov was?! He was the guy knocking on Hitler's door dammit!

[@williamburnham3659]

Simon Russell Beale is brilliant as Beria

[@JohnDoe-pf6kd]

The Concerto Thing apparently happened but in a different way and I think in another time rather than 1953, if I remember correctly, don't quote me on that one, the thing with the letter was also different, he didn't die from reading that letter if I remember correctly

[@funkyfranx]

Yeah, the concerto took place some nine years before and had nothing to do with Stalin's death, the story of calling everyone back so it could be recorded is true though

[@Kainlarsen]

This looks awesome! I'll have to get a copy and show my dad. :D

[@texasforever7887]

Stalin would have anyone popular or intelligent enough to overthrow him yeted or arrested. The only reason Zhukov survived was because he made sure Stalin knew he had no interest at all in politics. Even then it was close.

[@EdgyNumber1]

21:53 An American that gets it. Whilst NATO was about peace by the gun, the EU is about peace by trade and free movement. Not only to make war within the bloc difficult but materially impossible. However, it IS under threat by external factors, meddling in its internal culture and politics. Ukraine is the 'big rock in the way......'

[@MrBendylaw]

Zhukov can run my anti-sociopath purge anyday.

[@streaky81]

Oh I like your patreons' taste. I've tried getting a few to react to this :p

[@wanderingnomad1]

Thanks for your effort, but you don't have to keep pausing it to discuss each scene. You can do it at the end of the movie.

[@WaywardVet]

Hell, if you like the old school architecture, one of the lost treasures of Russia is the Amber Room

[@patrickholt2270]

The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact states spent huge amounts on rebuilding what had been destroyed by the Germans and restoring historical buildings and decor and stuff. So yeah, they had enormous respect for history, because invaders had tried to destroy it. Not what you might expect from Communists, who are painted as vandals and philistines too focussed on the future to care about heritage. When Stalin had his emotional breakdown immediately after the Nazi invasion started, the government was dislocated and his close associates basically begged him to get over it and return to work. It shows not only that he'd surrounded himself with yes men who knew they weren't up to stealing his job, but also that they were very much in lock step on policy and ideology. Likewise when he died the succession struggle only took a few months, whereas when Lenin died, there were a few years of shaking out alternative ideas and highly talented people who could compete for power before Stalin could take over. Which means, unfortunately, that Stalin was the best man for the job in 1926, as well as the the most motivated and ruthless to take on the job. Which isn't to pretend he was good man or he didn't largely ruin Soviet socialism in terms of real socialist idealism, but if a better man could have taken over after Lenin, they would have. Beria was a real monster. A habitual rapist and possibly pedophile, as well, I forget. He positioned himself as the liberal after Stalin died, calling for the restoration of civil rights and for the Warsaw Pact states to stop building 100% nationalisation planned economies, with all the privations involved in setting that up, and instead to go back to a mixed economy - sort of the Chinese route but several decades earlier. No-one else in party leadership was fooled by him though, because they knew if he took power they would all be killed.

[@GrimmaStadguard]

From my own experience, as a person coming from Czech Republic, I disagree. Many of our historical buildings were nationalized and then left alone to rot...Other ones were completely replaced. They kept only the historical buildings that were favourable with communist ideology like Hussites. In addition to that, there were many case even years after end of the WW2, where drunnk soviet soldiers destroyed property and many times even killed people in process...Instead of being put on trial, they were reasigned back to the USSR.

[@AnikaJarlsdottr]

beria was a legit serial killer as well as the other things you mentioned.

[@juhokuusisto9339]

Yeah, sure buddy. The commies left Karelia to rot after they occupied it. It is still in the same condition as Finns left there in 1944. Commies don't give a rats ass of history.

[@patrickholt2270]

@@juhokuusisto9339 Whatever bigot.

[@juhokuusisto9339]

@@patrickholt2270 Funny. Commies are the worst fascists on this planet. Over 100 million people have died under them and millions have been imprisoned and exiled because of communism. They're the same as nazis, but worse. I'm for freedom and equality and I hate faschists.

[@JW-do2wc]

They should watch History Buffs. The guy in the show talks about this movie.

[@ENGxXsamXxENG]

Field Marshal Zhukov the only man Stalin feared

[@martinconnors5195]

Stalins cause of death; Massive Cerebral Haemorrhage (March 6th 1953 - Aged 73)

[@eddhardy1054]

Funny, I thought this was supposed to be a reaction to the film...instead we get a reaction to one man who's already seen it talking far too much to a man who hasn't yet. Things would work far better if he just let the man on the left watch the movie and only explain points if an explanation is asked for 🙄

[@reginabillotti]

That accent you do every so often is really makes me think of Dr. Strangelove...

[@TrooperEli671]

The constant pausing made this video unwatchable.

[@deffientllynotjalenbutler1736]

Love you guys

[@Jonabob87]

"Stalin was not as much of a buffoon as Bush" One thing I never thought I'd hear is someone favourably comparing Josef Stalin to George Bush lmao. The man who took Hitler at his word and helped him start the 2nd world war.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Whereas Bush was a vain idiot who let Cheney and co slaughter the innocent.

[@ProtossWannabe1984]

Fr fr

[@markkringle9144]

I'm only gonna say this once, boys. Stay off the drugs.

[@samuel10125]

Actually Stalin suffered a series of strokes or a heart attack but it generally believed Stalin had a stroke.

[@noahsmith1053]

What movie did he direct? I would like to watch it.

[@schaddenkorp6977]

2:26 “I don’t like todays aesthetic” Agreed.

[@MrHellsing76]

Reality of it, Zhukov hated Beria probably more than EVERYONE involved in the power struggle, right after WW2 ended, Beria attacked him politically and forced him to give up almost all the gold and goods he personally got from the soviet army looting everything on the way to Berlin. the only things that were exaggerated, was how fast this all happened, some key events left out for a faster film, but almost everything, From Stalins Son being a total fuckup, his daughter being a political piece everyone wanted on their side, to even the "swap with me" ceremony, the biggest change was them having Malenkov even after getting his wife back, denounced her as a traitor, that was bullshit, she was the only thing he wanted in life.

[@Mumrik93]

There are rumours Stalin might have been poisoned by order of 'Tito', leader of Yugoslavia.

[@MrZORROish]

the film is a lot funnier than you guys!

[@ashleywetherall]

This is actually very true to history. But they have upped the satirical content of the situation..

[@bogarte7185]

Stalins brain didn't get toAmerica but Svetlana did en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alliluyeva

[@PurushaDesa]

“Stalin’s Cheney.” 😂 That’s awesome. I thoroughly recommend the director’s other film _In the Loop_ which directly satirises that whole period. Not sure there’s a Cheney figure in it but there’s definitely a Rumsfeld, played by the fantastic David Rasche who says things like, “All roads lead to Munich.”

[@brucechmiel7964]

Dude this movie is based on a English comic series and is surprisingly true.

[@aidanfarnan4683]

This film is *too* quoteable. I just can't list any of the quotes of KZbin.

[@rodmaster2007]

STOP PAUSING THE VIDEO!!!!!!!!

[@1001-p4q]

Listening to these two Americans. Is proving a little knowledge can be dangerous.... The American educational system gets a F -

[@trendydelquendy]

Christ. Just watch the film together.

[@tracyfrazier7440]

I think the Marine is drunk. Do you always cut the movie to pieces? Your commentary is not worth it.

[@madamx6656]

If this film is translated into the realities of Great Britain. THAT would be the case. Elizabeth 2 appeared in Parliament wearing a robe and crown. And the venerable lords, rushing out of their seats, would have thrown her to the floor, knocked off her crown, dragged her by the robe throughout the hall, and then together pissed on her face.

[@michaelmcpherson5406]

Stop pausing the Film every second its annoying

[@jozupiwa883]

This is one of the worst reactions I've ever seen. They stop the video every 5 seconds and then make big leaps forward. What rubbish!

[@cheeseburger12]

You're behind the times. Cheney is one of the "good" Republicans now, per the left. Gotta update to stay with the times. Heck, we're about 2-4 years away from I respectfully disagreed with Trump, but at least he isn't worse then Hitler like that FL governor.

[@SorchaSublime]

its really fascinating how people will just say random bullshit about the left.

[@cheeseburger12]

@@SorchaSublime what, you missed all the Cheney love when he was saying bad things about Trump? Or even W? Just like I'm sure you forgot how it used to be ok to openly question the results of an election.

[@SorchaSublime]

@@cheeseburger12 you do get that theres a difference between commending a politician for saying specific things, and actually liking the guy? Though I can certainly see liberals stooping that low so just as a reminder: liberals are not leftists, they are centrists generally leaning right. America doesn't really have a strong leftist contingent, from a European perspective it's actually quite depressing.

[@cheeseburger12]

@@SorchaSublime You get that after 8 years of constant smearing someone as evil racist Hitler and then praising them as people you disagreed with but didn't hate whenever there's a new Republican president gets old real fast. From Nixon to Trump it's always the current Republican is the most Hitler racist ever unlike the previous Republican. Yes, I heard some on the left lie about how they didn't hate W and Cheney. Bull. I remember the W and Cheney hate. The accusations of war crimes. There wasn't any respect then.

[@BlackEpyon]

Compared to the current GOP? That's not exactly a high bar to clear.

[@ROBOHOLIC1]

Classic

[@SG-or2oz]

You people talk too much!

[@JoshSweetvale]

The movie can be purchased.