Stalin

Book Review: Stalin’s Romeo Spy

July 13, 2010

(Full disclosure: Book  provided for review by Northwestern University Press. Lots of spoilers below, but I think this book is more about the journey than the ending, so read on. Old time-y Pictures of Russia in the 1940s/50s/60s in this post from here. ) When I was in Moscow with my dad four years ago, we went to see waxy Lenin rotting away and, afterwards, walked along the walls of the Kremlin, where many current and former Soviet military leaders ...

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Movie Review: Gift to Stalin (Подарок Сталину) and Interview with Cast

December 17, 2009

This is not an easy movie to see. In fact, I didn’t want to see it at all and fought with myself because I knew just from the description it would be an impossibly cruel movie about the bodies Stalin left behind. Nevertheless, you should see it, because to see this movie is to understand what it means to be human.  It helped me understand much better what my grandpa, who was in exile in Uzbekistan during World War II ...

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Stalin vs. Martians

June 25, 2009

You know how there’s this new trend to incorporate zombies into everything?  No? Perhaps you’ve heard of Pride and Predjudice and Zombies? Well, the same thing is now available, with a Russian and a Martian slant. There is a video game called Stalin vs. Martians (Hat tip: Jeff.)  I am not making this up, obviously. I think the best part is the music video for this video game: Naslozhdaityes.

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