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edhopper

(33,669 posts) Thu May 2, 2024, 09:47 AM May 2

A Gentleman in Moscow [View all]

A good show on Showtime/Paramount with Ewan McGregor about a Russian aristocrat who is under house arrest for life after the Revolution at a Moscow hotel. (based on the book by Amor Towles)
But the reason I bring it up is that in the latter episodes is the ever presence of Stalin in the atmosphere of the show. To question Stalin, even as he causes millions to suffer and die, even as the prosperity of Russia is a facade behind a country run into the ground by a immoral, paranoid psychopath, is to forfeit your life. Too many choose to follow Stain's lies at all cost than to attempt to do anything good for their country.

I will leave it here for people to draw their own analogies.

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A Gentleman in Moscow [View all] edhopper May 2 OP

The book on which this program is based is an excellent read. Lonestarblue May 2 #1

Thanks edhopper May 2 #3

One of my very favorite books TxGuitar May 2 #4

Exactly! The language is so well crafted. Lonestarblue May 2 #5

My best childhood friend's family fled the Ukraine to get away from Stalin and the Communists. RandySF May 2 #2

Ewan McGregor. Love him in everything he does. lindysalsagal May 2 #6

"The Ghostwriter" one of our "go to" movies. Never get tired of it. Peregrine Took May 2 #9

Is it streaming? lindysalsagal May 2 #12

What is it with the Russian character that they've never developed anything close to... brush May 2 #7

Essentially the Englightenment PoindexterOglethorpe May 2 #8

It's a shame if it's that simple. Weren't czarist, royal courts in touch with and related to some of the... brush May 2 #11

In touch with, but not really very closely. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2 #13

Good history. Thanks for you insight and for sharing your knowledge. brush May 2 #15

You are welcome. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2 #16

Nicholas II, last Tsar, was married to Queen Victoria's granddaughter. Crunchy Frog May 2 #17

Yes, I vaguely remembered there was a family connection... brush May 3 #18

Not so much inbreeding. Crunchy Frog May 3 #20

OK, OK. So much history. Your mention of the Hapsburgs... brush May 3 #21

I think it was changed due to anti German sentiment Crunchy Frog May 3 #22

True, not as inbred as the Hapsburgs SocialDemocrat61 May 3 #23

I think it was pretty common in Europe at the time. Crunchy Frog May 3 #24

No they weren't 1st cousins SocialDemocrat61 May 3 #25

They never had a tradition of SocialDemocrat61 May 2 #14

Interesting nugget of history on Germany. brush May 3 #19

Smooth transition of power was a rarity Retrograde May 3 #29

Whoa, horror after horror, overthrows, killings, ambition... brush May 4 #31

Russia was on a fragile track toward parliamentary democracy in 1917 Charging Triceratops May 3 #26

Lenin wasn't a fascist. Elessar Zappa May 3 #28

Yes, fascism is extreme right as opposed to socialism to the left... brush May 4 #32

Lenin was a dictator and, thus, a fascist, albeit from the left Charging Triceratops May 4 #34

Thanks. I didn't know this history. Was the Assembly violently deposed of... brush May 4 #30

The Bolsheviks did not stop the election Charging Triceratops May 4 #33

Read the novel and have seen the show. Tommy Carcetti May 2 #10

Just watched episode 7 "The Fall". SleeplessinSoCal May 3 #27