Y10: 3-12. Stalin Film II

Today , we will continue with the revision film on Stalin…

-Part A-

In the last scene we saw Nadia telling Stalin that Lenin is dead…

It is Lenin’s funeral…

Note how Stalin makes sure that his henchman does not say that he (Stalin) deliberately gave Trotsky the wrong date for the funeral!

There is a scene in the garden at Stalin’s house: Nadia cuts flowers while talking to Zina about being offered a job by Bukharin.

Nadia is in the house decorating flowers…

Stalin had just received a call informing him that Lenin’s testament proposed his removal from the Secretariat, etc.
Here, for the first time, we can see Stalin being mean to his wife… (He thought that she knew that Lenin did not write favourably about him in his political testament.)
(Increasingly, Stalin’s wicked side now becomes evident in the film…)

Other scenes follow:

Lenin’s testament is read in the politburo. They decide not to read it to the Central Committee.
Stalin’s son (from his previous marriage), Jakov, comes to Moscow to live with his father. (Nadia did not know about him!)
Trotsky is exiled: he is forced onto a train, while Trotsky’s son complains and tries to stop Stalin from exiling his father.

Stalin is suspicious of Trotsky as he is a potential rival. (All the old politburo members posed a threat to Stalin’s position of power, and he became increasingly suspicious of them…)

Stalin discuss the replacement of Zinoviev (as head of the Leningrad Party branch) with one of his (Stalin’s) supporters. It is decided that Kirov will replace Zinoviev.

Kirov enters the room, with a gift for Stalin! When everyone leaves, Stalin asks Yagoda (another Stalin supporter) to ‘keep an eye’ on Kirov…

(Stalin became suspicious of everyone as possible rivals to his position.)

Stalin II-A. (20:51 minutes long)

-Part B-

It is 1928 and Russia experiences a grain problem…

Bukharin and Beria speak to Stalin about the suffering of the peasants – their grain are being seized.
Bukharin strongly disagrees with this measure!
(Beria also seems to be a despicable character…)

Stalin’s son, Jakov, became very upset when Stalin opposes his intentions to marry a Jewish girl.

Jakov’s solution to this dilemma? Suicide…!
Nadia arrives on the scene and tries to resolve matters

Nadia ‘runs away’ to visit her parents. She is very upset, because she realises more and more how evil Stalin is… She also knows how powerful he is and that no one can escape him!