Lavrentiy Beria's death | The Death of Stalin | 2017

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  • @chaosXP3RT
    @chaosXP3RT 2 года назад +3087

    Fun Fact: Zhukov and Eisenhower were good friends after WWII. They toured the USSR together. Eisenhower gifted Zhukov fishing tackle that supposedly Zhukov used for the rest of his life. I find it very interesting that the two men who were very much the architects of Allied armies in Europe were good friends. Both were very smart men.

    • @KMcNally117
      @KMcNally117 2 года назад +221

      Plus didn't Eisenhower send him Coca Cola disguised as vodka since Zhukov got addicted to it?
      Edit: sort of ruclips.net/video/E3uEOTHnxLM/видео.html (1:25)

    • @kyle18934
      @kyle18934 2 года назад +153

      its intersting. its like how stoner, the inventor of the m16 and kaladhnikov the inventor of the ak-47 became friends.

    • @MrElis420
      @MrElis420 2 года назад +9

      @@KMcNally117 No, that was Nikita lol.

    • @stevem2323
      @stevem2323 2 года назад +49

      @@MrElis420 Nope i heard this too, Zhukov loved Coca Cola.

    • @MrElis420
      @MrElis420 2 года назад +29

      @@stevem2323 Sry I did get it wrong it was Zhukov

  • @montyboon4127
    @montyboon4127 2 года назад +3522

    "Foreign powers"
    "Foreign powers?! What, the fucking Moon??" Hilarious

    • @sharkdegrijze
      @sharkdegrijze 2 года назад +12

      What part do they say that one ?

    • @joaobarroso9502
      @joaobarroso9502 2 года назад +52

      @@sharkdegrijze 2:41
      it's pretty garbled though

    • @sushimuncher282
      @sushimuncher282 2 года назад +148

      Ah yes. The Nazis on the moon. Can't forget that.

    • @montyboon4127
      @montyboon4127 2 года назад +11

      @@sushimuncher282 😂

    • @yonboybigbezang8808
      @yonboybigbezang8808 2 года назад +29

      Well, with foreign the probably mean. The time Beria proposed to reunite western germany and eastern germany.

  • @chikitabowow
    @chikitabowow 2 года назад +3591

    Jason Isaacs as Zhukov was absolutely brilliant, he nailed the combination of being intimidating and lovable at the same time

    • @ruralhobo
      @ruralhobo 2 года назад +84

      I liked the movie, and Isaacs in his role, but it was satire, not history. Zhukov, according to his contemporaries, was a great soldier but not lovable. He was caustic, very demanding of others, stubborn and quite willing to expend human lives. I find it hard to imagine the real Zhukov in the delightful movie scene where he fools Krushchev into thinking he'll report him, and then breaks into laughter and the words "look at your fucking face".

    • @chikitabowow
      @chikitabowow 2 года назад +10

      @@ruralhobo Bruh

    • @Armoredcompany
      @Armoredcompany 2 года назад +42

      @@Tom-lg9ee Except that no, there are VERY clear descriptions of Zhukov and his character/mannerisms. This is very nearly NOTHING like him. The only similarity is the brashness and larger-than-life personality. He was very much NOT a man of quippy one-liners and snark.
      That being said, The Death of Stalin is 100% a satire. The IRL Zhukov simply didn't fit the script, so like many of the characters he was modified. Probably the most accurate part of him here is his uniform...

    • @Bruh-bp6nn
      @Bruh-bp6nn 2 года назад +25

      @@Armoredcompany even his uniform has less medals than irl

    • @Armoredcompany
      @Armoredcompany 2 года назад +19

      @@Bruh-bp6nn nah, that dude looked like a North Korean general except he actually earned half of them

  • @11andrewdenny11
    @11andrewdenny11 2 года назад +2280

    3:51 "fuck off back to Georgia, dead boy" what a line lmao

    • @absolutfreeman1033
      @absolutfreeman1033 2 года назад +5

      lol

    • @ray7419
      @ray7419 2 года назад +16

      Lmao!!! That was great. 🤣🤣

    • @Ocker3
      @Ocker3 2 года назад +1

      Excellent editing of this clip, finishing on that! :)

    • @samuelma7709
      @samuelma7709 2 года назад +3

      that shit had me dead lmfao

    • @gingervsginger7305
      @gingervsginger7305 2 года назад +7

      That line is also said at 3:22

  • @WrathOfGrapesN7
    @WrathOfGrapesN7 2 года назад +1327

    Whoever decided to give Zhukov a Yorkshire accent is a genius.

    • @TheDoctorFromArknights
      @TheDoctorFromArknights 2 года назад +62

      Improv, the actor made a step up

    • @wiryantirta
      @wiryantirta 2 года назад +46

      He gave himself one so yes Isaac is a genius.

    • @TheDoctorFromArknights
      @TheDoctorFromArknights 2 года назад +50

      @@wiryantirta if there were a spin off on Zhukov but with the Same Writing as The Death of Stalin and with Isaac, I would pay to watch it

    • @LLiivveeeevviiLL
      @LLiivveeeevviiLL 2 года назад +3

      Oi!

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 2 года назад +8

      It was Isaacs himself.

  • @killian9314
    @killian9314 2 года назад +1382

    What's funnier is that Zhukov had more medals irl, they toned down how many medals he actually had to not make him "look silly"

    • @glenchapman3899
      @glenchapman3899 2 года назад +143

      I saw a historian comment that Zhukov virtually earned every medal he ever wore. Unlike so many others

    • @wkcia
      @wkcia 2 года назад +16

      @Jon oh please. Are you American? You get a medal for learning how to use the big toilet.
      Commonwealth- campaign medals, and medals for being a fucking badass. And that’s it.

    • @visassess8607
      @visassess8607 2 года назад +12

      @@wkcia Yeah those medals like being a nurse, supporting operations, flying, and being mentioned in a dispatch by an officer lmao.

    • @harrycallahan5018
      @harrycallahan5018 2 года назад +4

      @Jon No American wants to be you either, believe me.

    • @wkcia
      @wkcia 2 года назад +2

      @Jon sure, I’m a commie because I believe in earning your medals as opposed to just being given them like some socialist.
      Your ignorance is matched only by your illiteracy.

  • @CSLucasEpic
    @CSLucasEpic 2 года назад +3311

    I think that nobody ever loved the Soviet Union more than Zhukov did. Stalin loved himself and saw defending the Soviet Union as a means of becoming great himself. Zhukov loved the Soviet Union more than himself.

    • @HansenDing
      @HansenDing 2 года назад +225

      Zhukov was a soldier, he loved his country as some soldiers do. Politically among the top if we're talking about love for country at expense of self I'd say Molotov, but he loved the Soviet Union to a degree that was no longer practical. And ironically once it liberalised (to his own benefit cos his wife came back!) he started hating it?
      Idk I gotta read up maybe on Molotov. Dude seemed weird.
      Kruschev also I think genuinely believed and loved the project until he failed. He knew its brutality but thought it could all be worth it if only they can achieve their utopia. So I'd nominate him too.

    • @sheikhmufasafasagan1973
      @sheikhmufasafasagan1973 2 года назад +40

      Boy , you never heard of sablin . He died fighting stalins tyrany

    • @someone28
      @someone28 2 года назад +104

      Zhukov also had the following of the entire Soviet Army behind him. If Stalin ever tried anything against him it would have been game over for him.

    • @user-zn1gd4jh4e
      @user-zn1gd4jh4e 2 года назад +129

      Love how people try to guess Stalin's and zhukovs personalities off of a satire british film

    • @JarrodFrates
      @JarrodFrates 2 года назад +75

      @@someone28 At the same time, Zhukov was perpetually on guard. His daughter (I think) said he always had a bag ready to go in case Stalin ever decided he wasn't worth the risk of keeping around. He knew that at any time he may need to bolt.

  • @gdhuertas07
    @gdhuertas07 2 года назад +2145

    Fun note: Armando Iannucci told his actors to not even bother with a Russian accent and just speak as they normally would. Isaacs took this one step further and gave Zhukov a Yorkshire accent to emphasize his toughness.
    EDIT: See comment below.

    • @ukoutdoors3022
      @ukoutdoors3022 2 года назад +177

      That accent absolutely is not a Liverpudlian accent. It's Yorkshire. Source : I live in between Liverpool and Yorkshire.

    • @gdhuertas07
      @gdhuertas07 2 года назад +53

      @@ukoutdoors3022 My bad, I’ll correct it.

    • @rogueriderhood1862
      @rogueriderhood1862 2 года назад +31

      @@ukoutdoors3022 Sounds like a Barnsley accent to me, and I'm from Barnsley.

    • @DeathMetalHippee
      @DeathMetalHippee 2 года назад +31

      I'm American but I spent some time growing up in North Yorkshire as a kid. I definitely hear a Yorkshire accent though it isn't the heaviest.

    • @DenSvartaStjarnan
      @DenSvartaStjarnan 2 года назад +23

      EDIT: I mean speaking English with a Russian accent to convey Russian (for example) is stupid and the guy responding misunderstood me.
      What I said:
      Speaking English with an accent to convey non-English is silly, anyways. It makes no sense. It's better and more immersive to just let the translation into English be translations.

  • @alcatraz2010
    @alcatraz2010 2 года назад +660

    02:47 the funny thing is they all knew what was Beria doing all along , but suddenly they started to care when the wind on their side

    • @IsaiahMiguelMagallon
      @IsaiahMiguelMagallon  2 года назад +48

      lol true

    • @lie5196
      @lie5196 2 года назад +81

      No one Liked Beria even Stalin was scared of him imparticular Stalin didn't like leaving his daughter with Beria as he was such a notorious pedophile but kept him on board because he was so ruthless and effective at his job.
      Once Beria was no longer protected by Stalin it was only a mater of time.

    • @fuckoff4705
      @fuckoff4705 2 года назад +8

      of course, otherwise you'd be executed for speaking out

    • @JacobSmith-xs3ir
      @JacobSmith-xs3ir 2 года назад +36

      beria ran the secret police and had the blessing of stalin they couldnt do anything till stalin was dead and the red army was close enough to be an effective counter to the secret police

    • @ThatRatBastard
      @ThatRatBastard 2 года назад +98

      Not much they could have done otherwise, he had the NKVD on his side and they had grown pretty powerful by then. Nobody liked what Beria was doing, he even made Stalin uncomfortable.

  • @bbenjoe
    @bbenjoe 2 года назад +649

    Fun fact:
    Beria's predecessor was Nikolay Yezhov. He was executed a decade before, in 1940, and just like him, he too was begging for his life, weeping.

    • @mryhdy6266
      @mryhdy6266 2 года назад +107

      "Fun fact #2" - Yezhov did the same to his predecessor, Genrikh Yagoda, as happened to himself at the hands of Beria a few years later

    • @eamonwright7488
      @eamonwright7488 2 года назад +22

      They said Yezhov was squeeking like a mouse and dodging bullets.

    • @dannya1854
      @dannya1854 2 года назад +51

      The funnest part of that fact is they themselves would try and torture and threaten revolutionaries and civil war veterans to get them to beg for their lives or beg for it to end but most of the people they tried kept repeating their allegiance to the Soviet Union and would die telling the truth that their comrades were not traitors. A stark contrast with how Yagoda, Yezhov, and Beria were having panic attacks and weeping and pissing their pants when being taken to execution.

    • @eamonwright7488
      @eamonwright7488 2 года назад

      @@mryhdy6266 Fun Fact 3 - Yagoda had a massive collection of dildos and the 2 bullets used to execute Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev.

    • @kozmonauta0515
      @kozmonauta0515 2 года назад

      Yezhov was also a murderous psychopath and a notorious rapist.

  • @luciusvorenus9445
    @luciusvorenus9445 2 года назад +234

    The Red Army Officer who says "I'll take the tall blonde one. " is Leonid Brezhnev.
    He replaced Nikita Khrushchev.

    • @jagdpanther2224
      @jagdpanther2224 2 года назад +1

      Khruschev caused many blinders to Soviet Union but Brezhnev was even worst!

    • @Berd-Wasted.
      @Berd-Wasted. 2 года назад +10

      Good Taste I guess.

    • @constantinethegreat6713
      @constantinethegreat6713 2 года назад +8

      Even though he was provoked by the Order of Victory so yeah, he's the leader ✨

    • @michaelblower7363
      @michaelblower7363 20 часов назад

      Fun Fact: Brezhnev was also the first Russian in 100 years to rule Russia and it's territories. The Tzars were related to the German Royal Family, Stalin was Georgian and Khrushchev was a Ukranian.

  • @disgruntledtoons
    @disgruntledtoons 2 года назад +311

    Jason Isaacs is having sooo much fun in this movie.

    • @mmeettwwoo
      @mmeettwwoo Месяц назад

      I ll have to report this comment to youtube, supporting a coomunist propaganda and obstructing the youtube algorithm from doing its....look at your face...😂😂😂

  • @simonthomsen8578
    @simonthomsen8578 2 года назад +431

    3:45 "This is for the people!!" hahaha I love Michael Palin as Molotov, the unshakeable, unwavering idealist!

    • @Briselance
      @Briselance 2 года назад +29

      That was one of the Monty Pythons as comrade Molotov, the bespectacled dude who kind of tiptoes his way around Beria's corpse?? O_o
      Man, I'll be damned if I remembered it was him.

    • @rfichokeofdestiny
      @rfichokeofdestiny 5 месяцев назад +4

      Palin was always great at playing sniveling or slimy characters.

    • @charliehorrell4823
      @charliehorrell4823 2 месяца назад +5

      “Stalin would be loving this”

  • @mattwiser8406
    @mattwiser8406 2 года назад +3130

    "Have a job done right, call the Army!"
    "Go and kill them, won't you?"
    Zhukov said that his greatest moment in the Army wasn't taking Berlin, it was overthrowing and liquidating Beria.

  • @benx6264
    @benx6264 2 года назад +410

    The very best Zhukov scene IMO. is his introductory scene where he throws off his heavy coat in slo-mo to reveal all the medals underneath and the music plays - pure awesome

    • @takayamuramoto4490
      @takayamuramoto4490 2 года назад +13

      The very best is that they had to give him LESS medals than in reality, so it would not look fake.

    • @Catzanova
      @Catzanova 10 месяцев назад +2

      Well, he did have to eat for the entire Red Army 😂

  • @drunkukrainian6998
    @drunkukrainian6998 2 года назад +2116

    Fun fact stalin was actually horrified of zukhov he was the one man who could say no to stalin and live

    • @mehmeh1999
      @mehmeh1999 2 года назад +201

      He wasn't horrified of Zhukov. He was terrified of Zhukov and horrified of Beria, so much so that he would never leave his daughter unattended near Beria. Beria was a notorious pedo. Zhukov was the entire Red army. They did as Zhukov said. If Zhukov wanted stalin's seat he would've had it.

    • @narzereth
      @narzereth 2 года назад +274

      @@mehmeh1999 True. If stalin killed zhukov, the red army would of revolted and probally killed stalin and his buddies.

    • @drunkukrainian6998
      @drunkukrainian6998 2 года назад +102

      @@mehmeh1999 and after stalin died zukhov staged a coou and killed beria

    • @saddemgargouri
      @saddemgargouri 2 года назад +36

      @@mehmeh1999 I do not know of any other Soviet party official being accused of being a serial rapist other than Beria . In Stalin Russia Ted Bundy gets to be the head of the security it seems

    • @juh2445
      @juh2445 2 года назад +25

      @@saddemgargouri head of security also meant sending whoever you want to the gulag so

  • @Cletus_the_Elder
    @Cletus_the_Elder 2 года назад +895

    Zhukov's daughter denounced this movie sight unseen, likely with a little pressure from the Kremlin. I hope she and Zhukov's other descendants get to watch this movie and see how positively he is portrayed. As a character in this movie, Zhukov comes out as honorable, principled, brave, loyal, decisive, and far more ethical than the other players. If the real Zhukov had these same qualities, then Zhukov's family will have a movie they can treasure as they treasure his memory.

    • @chrisd2051
      @chrisd2051 Год назад +38

      True like Zhukov in this movie was only acting in the defense of his country, the others in their own defense.

    • @josefelipegonzalezfidalgo6656
      @josefelipegonzalezfidalgo6656 Год назад +5

      I agree

    • @F40PH-2CAT
      @F40PH-2CAT Год назад +3

      Zhukov was acting in his own interests...that being Stalin didn't like competition and was almost certainly to be sidelined/killed.

    • @bullmoosevelt4495
      @bullmoosevelt4495 11 месяцев назад +25

      @@F40PH-2CATZhukov didn’t like politics, which is why he ended up sidelined in the first place. If he did, he most certainly had everything he needed to oust the rest of the committee and take over himself.

    • @bytgfdsw2
      @bytgfdsw2 9 месяцев назад +7

      Cultural differences in Russia most likely. Zhukov was funny and tough in this film, but it’s not a faithful representation of his real life personality, which could come as disrespectful

  • @mtbjason4
    @mtbjason4 2 года назад +143

    My great grandfather meet Zhukov after escaping a POW camp in Poland and being picked up by the Russians who were advancing toward Berlin at the time. He said he was very polite and professional.

    • @IsaiahMiguelMagallon
      @IsaiahMiguelMagallon  Год назад +8

      neat

    • @scudworthsboss5858
      @scudworthsboss5858 Год назад +1

      Honestly that’s so interesting, would you mind sharing a few more details about the interaction if you have any?

    • @mtbjason4
      @mtbjason4 Год назад +32

      @@scudworthsboss5858 My great grandfather was a Captain in the African theater before being captured. Spent 2 years in a camp before escaping. After being picked up by the Russians he was taken to a Red Army headquarters to arrange for transport back to the Americans. He noted that the Russians were always very dirty but kept great care of their weapons and were overall good professional soldiers. He was also taken off guard by how many female solders there were and the fact that some of the officers took there wives with them, lol. He was able to give the Russians good intel on the German whereabouts west of their current position. He said Zhukov made sure he, and the couple of others he was with, were put in good quarters and would send stolen German wine to him every night.

    • @VelvetMagician
      @VelvetMagician 11 месяцев назад +6

      @@mtbjason4That’s incredible, thank you for sharing

    • @philipprichardt8057
      @philipprichardt8057 5 месяцев назад

      @@mtbjason4 That's an awesome story.

  • @FoxhoundAK74
    @FoxhoundAK74 2 года назад +779

    I'm saddened that Modern Russia still honors Stalin as the victor in WW2, when they could easily Honor Zhukov as the victor

    • @ruralhobo
      @ruralhobo 2 года назад +88

      As far as I know, they honor Zhukov very much.

    • @tyguy6296
      @tyguy6296 2 года назад +68

      i always like to believe that stalin gave himself that massive stroke stressing about how much cooler Zhukov was than him, and how literally everyone knew it.
      makes me feel better about the whole thing

    • @FoxhoundAK74
      @FoxhoundAK74 2 года назад +6

      @@ruralhobo They do, but Stalin's face is still up

    • @mryhdy6266
      @mryhdy6266 2 года назад +38

      @@ruralhobo
      Zhukov's statue riding a horse is on Red Square, commemorating hit taking of the victory parade. Stalin is nowwhere to be seen on Red Square, only his ahes placed in the Kremlin walls.

    • @user-mw2vn7pv8n
      @user-mw2vn7pv8n 2 года назад +3

      @@tyguy6296 "So much cooler"? You mean killing 20 million less innocent people.

  • @mannekiini2687
    @mannekiini2687 2 года назад +312

    Beria's actor nailed this so well. The comedy scenes were hilarious and in this scene for example you really almost felt bad for him. All the voice cracks and the begging seemed so genuine. 5/5 acting.

    • @deanpd3402
      @deanpd3402 2 года назад

      I didn't feel sorry for him. He behaved exactly like a psycho would.

    • @Kamina.D.Fierce
      @Kamina.D.Fierce 2 года назад +27

      Until they read off his charges and then you just think... "Welp. Buh-bye!"

    • @FauxFace
      @FauxFace 2 года назад +25

      The way he begged and squirmed is such a good example of acting, you really feel like you’re watching someone who knows he’s about to die when his sentenced was stated.

    • @robertsprankle6127
      @robertsprankle6127 Год назад +7

      I think it was because Simon Russel Beale had such a good performance, that the writers left out of the script the bit where Beria's executioners stuffed a sock in his mouth to shut him up and THEN shot him

    • @johnpotts8308
      @johnpotts8308 10 месяцев назад +8

      @@Kamina.D.Fierce The sexual charges are what they really convicted Beria of (and were actually true). Not that it really mattered, but it avoided the awkwardness of convicting him of political crimes they all shared.

  • @patricktalbot8980
    @patricktalbot8980 2 года назад +115

    Sad fact was that after his execution they turned him house into an embassy for I think Algeria and when they started doing some maintenance work they discovered the bodies of several women Beria had killed

    • @VoiceOfTheEmperor
      @VoiceOfTheEmperor 7 месяцев назад +12

      That's some Ted Bundy level shit.

    • @jeremymoore1746
      @jeremymoore1746 16 дней назад +2

      They discovered the skeletons of girls in the back garden and under the road.

  • @capthawkeye8010
    @capthawkeye8010 2 года назад +85

    Fawk me. Georgi's eyes really do fullow ya round the crappa.

    • @hamzasat
      @hamzasat 2 года назад +1

      Weird!!

    • @Mrbimmer11
      @Mrbimmer11 5 месяцев назад +1

      ITS A GAY JOKE 😂

  • @timcolledge3732
    @timcolledge3732 2 года назад +413

    I think I am right in saying that Marshal Zhukov personally arrested Beria. Apparently, it was a Soviet ar force Marshal who actually shot Beria dead.

    • @IsaiahMiguelMagallon
      @IsaiahMiguelMagallon  2 года назад +18

      im not sure

    • @maxpattio3220
      @maxpattio3220 2 года назад +125

      Beria was executed by General Pavel Batitsky, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Forces

    • @alanwright7498
      @alanwright7498 2 года назад +61

      Beria felt threatened by Zhukovs' status after WWII. He made a go at having him purged. Zhukov might have been a little pissed at this. I don't know exactly how things went. But Zhukov wanted Beria gone and probably took some satisfaction in seeing him liquidated.

    • @ruralhobo
      @ruralhobo 2 года назад +17

      ​@@alanwright7498 Think you're right. But Zhukov, I expect, had other motives too. Such as not seeing the Red Army subjugated to the NKVD, or MVD as it was then called. Plus a loyal relationship with Krushchev going back to WWII. Plus an intimate knowledge of who Beria really was, and alarm at the thought he could become the new dictator.

    • @alanwright7498
      @alanwright7498 2 года назад +24

      @@ruralhobo Beria raided Zhukovs' appartment in 1948 and found his undisclosed war loot, humiliating him publicly and getting him a sever dressing down from Stalin. You are also right in what you say. And we can both agree that Beria was a bit of an asshole. After reading about Beria years before TDOS it was good to see a reenactment of him getting shot in the face. A dark comedy indeed.

  • @steveschmitt6933
    @steveschmitt6933 2 года назад +389

    I just love how they actually have guards walk in during the cou and Zhukov gives the order to the red army soldiers to kill them. Guards already know they’ve saw something they shouldn’t and start running from their “comrads” wonddeeful USSR

    • @thefrontline1
      @thefrontline1 2 года назад +23

      They were trying to stage their own coup

    • @watchrami
      @watchrami 2 года назад +27

      those were Beria henchmen

    • @terrypennington2519
      @terrypennington2519 2 года назад +42

      They were NKVD troops who were working to stage their own coup for Beria...only Beria wasn't anticipating Khrushchev to not only stage his own coup, but stage it with complete support of the committee, and with none other than Zhukov himself, which meant the entire army was on Khrushchev's side as well.

    • @Kamina.D.Fierce
      @Kamina.D.Fierce 2 года назад +5

      It'd have been funny if one of them said. "You need any help with this?" And tried to join them. Regardless of what would happen to whoever said it, it would have been funny.

    • @ifedhimspaghetti
      @ifedhimspaghetti 10 месяцев назад

      I know this doesn’t say much for my intelligence but I totally didn’t connect that this was the reason for their arrival lol. They were completely unfazed, so they weren’t in response mode
      Thanks

  • @1dcriticalcritical854
    @1dcriticalcritical854 2 года назад +74

    A small detail I like is when Malenkov whom was previously defending Beria upon reading the paper of the "Accusations" he comes to a full realization of how much of a monster Beria is and basically all opposition he once had for the coup just falls away.

    • @TheArgieH
      @TheArgieH 2 года назад +8

      Maybe, or join the winners once it was certain. I doubt any member of the inner group was unaware of Beria's hobbies.
      There's the fine old quote: "Treason doth never prosper, why and here's the reason. If it does non dare call it treason."

    • @Gooberpatrol66
      @Gooberpatrol66 2 года назад +6

      I think he was supposed to read out the paper but was too much of a coward to denounce Beria so Khruschev had to do it.

    • @Muzakman37
      @Muzakman37 2 года назад +4

      Also notice how someone hastily takes down Malenkov's portrait (showing that the Beria/Malenkov regime was already taking hold at this point) in the outhouse whilst Beria's having the charges read out to him. Malenkov is in the foreground of the brief shot totally unawares with his back to it.
      It's like watching Airplane!/Naked Gun etc, gotta watch it multiple times otherwise you miss a lot of little symbolic moves/gags etc.

    • @andrealves2630
      @andrealves2630 10 месяцев назад +5

      Malenkov was an opportunist. He realised there was no stopping Khruscher and Zhukov and thought it was better to play along

  • @trixus4768
    @trixus4768 2 года назад +38

    "I'm gonna enjoy peeling the skin from your self-satisfied face!"
    "Not with that, you won't..."
    LMAO😂😂😂

  • @Zagoreni02A
    @Zagoreni02A 2 года назад +127

    People yelling how inacurate it is, people this is comedy, enjoy the good comedy when you see it. Jason Isaac nailed it. Bravo!

    • @forte609
      @forte609 2 года назад +15

      It's pretty accurate actually as per History buffs video.
      Sure they took some liberty with the varying English accents but it showed how regional USSR is back then. Some scenes were stitched together like this scene where it took months instead of a day.

  • @TheModelGuy
    @TheModelGuy 2 года назад +65

    "Fuck off back to Georgia dead boy" fucking killed me the first time watching this movie.

  • @marcelosilva8021
    @marcelosilva8021 2 года назад +143

    Best line of the entire movie: "go on and kill em, will you?" As if asking for someone to pass the salt.

  • @slashnburn9234
    @slashnburn9234 2 года назад +94

    Jason Issacs' Zhukov is one of the standout performances in a film packed full of standout performances. I love the portrayal with the Yorkshire accent, specifically chosen because it's a down-to-earth, no-nonsense accent associated with tough, working class northerners (they could have also gone for a Lancashire accent, but I'm slightly biased on that!) He's shown as a tough, uncompromising character who doesn't suffer fools, is wary of politicians and is rightfully respected by his men and treats them fairly. The real Zhukov was one of the most respected commanders of World War II, a war hero for whom the Red Army would do anything, and a Russian patriot. No wonder Stalin was jealous of him and his popularity.

    • @davidemelia6296
      @davidemelia6296 3 месяца назад

      They wanted him to sound tough, not inbred

  • @Tulane_Gargoyle
    @Tulane_Gargoyle 2 года назад +213

    I like the bit where he comes in with his rifle raised, ready to shoot, but then sees what is happening at 0:17 and just casually hands his rifle over to the solider like it was just another day at the office.

    • @vermas4654
      @vermas4654 2 года назад +24

      And the soldier also just casually takes it without any meaningful reaction

    • @moronic_dense_fooker
      @moronic_dense_fooker 2 года назад +56

      I mean red army soldiers held high respect for zhukov and zhukov knew that. Soldiers would've done whatever he said. If he said jump, they'd say 'how high'.
      The soldier probably felt honoured to hold his AK.

    • @stepbrohelpimstuck2480
      @stepbrohelpimstuck2480 2 года назад +4

      You mean 0:17

    • @Tulane_Gargoyle
      @Tulane_Gargoyle 2 года назад +4

      @@stepbrohelpimstuck2480 updated. Thanks

    • @frednone
      @frednone 4 месяца назад

      @@moronic_dense_fooker Nah, he'd start jumping and then ask if he needed to go higher.

  • @johnpinkston3818
    @johnpinkston3818 2 года назад +48

    Berias death scene is one of the most satisfying I've seen.

  • @abelardoruiz5544
    @abelardoruiz5544 2 года назад +43

    Zhukov said getting rid of Beria was the most important thing he did in his life....

  • @Erwin_Von_Heidenheim
    @Erwin_Von_Heidenheim 2 года назад +18

    I love how you can see leonid brezhnev all over this film in the shadows, if you can't find him look for giant eyebrows

  • @nikosmosxos5856
    @nikosmosxos5856 2 года назад +13

    "spit it out Georgy we're staging a coup here.

  • @Egirlbeater
    @Egirlbeater 2 года назад +59

    2:46 discord mods after being caught

    • @canthi109
      @canthi109 2 года назад +2

      Lol

    • @schwerenevonyildi1315
      @schwerenevonyildi1315 2 года назад +8

      Marshal Zhukov is like that one admin who just wants the discord server to be chill.

  • @dantetejeda1868
    @dantetejeda1868 2 года назад +14

    I love how Zhukov treats him men like they were his mates but shits on politicians every chance he gets

  • @AChapstickOrange
    @AChapstickOrange 10 месяцев назад +7

    I cannot get enough of watching Jason Isaacs play Zhukov. It is just so much fun. :)

  • @krisjill5918
    @krisjill5918 2 года назад +29

    "Proper dead?" ... gets me every time!

  • @TheDoctorFromArknights
    @TheDoctorFromArknights 2 года назад +14

    "Fock me, Goergy's Eyes really do follow you round the trapper"

  • @isaacschmitt4803
    @isaacschmitt4803 2 года назад +22

    Gotta love Jason Isaacs. You can see in his eyes right after the other guy pops Beria's brains just a look of "c'mon man, *I* wanted to do that. . . "

  • @SkoinksX
    @SkoinksX 2 года назад +50

    thanks for the compilation, love Jason in this one!

  • @coolsceegaming6178
    @coolsceegaming6178 2 года назад +26

    You know he commands the full trust of the red army when he can just casually give a gun to a guard with no fear of them shooting.

    • @YvonTripper
      @YvonTripper 6 месяцев назад +1

      Those were his hand-picked Beria assassination squad.

  • @RetractedandRedacted
    @RetractedandRedacted 2 года назад +16

    Zhukov was by far my favourite character of this movie

  • @samwiserando
    @samwiserando Год назад +4

    i remember an interview from the director, he said he didn't give anyone any places to stand in this scene and wanted all the actors to find their own places in the scene, it helped make it more chaotic and confusing.

  • @stefanholmstrom1968
    @stefanholmstrom1968 Год назад +10

    3:31 might actually depict quite well the overall chaos when all this happened, even if this all is fictionalised. Someone just shoots Berija, even Zhukov seems perplexed for a second, but the goal is achieved: Berija is dead. The shooter remains anonymous. So much of the film is concentrated on who says what and when - and what it means when it comes to responsibility of everything happening. Most of the characters try to remain "innocent". Everyone's in on it, everyone also tries to keep a distance, everyone tries to secure future power. "Things just happen, it wasn't me" - just like shooting Berija.

  • @Ciborium
    @Ciborium Год назад +8

    Every time I see scenes, now that I recognize one of Zhukov's lieutenants as Leonid Brezhnev, I can't help but see him in the background of all his scenes.

  • @geronimozarza8495
    @geronimozarza8495 2 года назад +120

    Among all those politicians and genocidal maniacs, Zhúkov was a real man of honor, the only real patriot that loved the USSR for real and not just for the desire for Power. I think he deserved to Rule the country after the Death of Stalin. I wonder why he did not.

    • @Briselance
      @Briselance 2 года назад +42

      A good and popular general, as Zhukov was, does not necessarily make a good country president or ruler.
      Not to mention that maybe Zhukov was just not interested in taking the seat after Stalin.

    • @danlorett2184
      @danlorett2184 2 года назад +39

      Zhukov hated politics and the day-to-day minutiae of being politician. He avoided politics as much as possible but when Stalin died he took his opportunity to prevent Beria and his NKVD cronies from consolidating power - something Stalin had been wary of for some time. When Beria resigned as chief of the NKVD and became head of State Security instead, Stalin slowly began replacing Beria's loyal underlings from the positions of power that Beria had promoted them into. Still, Beria commanded the loyalty of the NKVD (and it's successor, the MVD) and was easily the most powerful member of the Politburo at the time of Stalin's death.
      His downfall was that the only man more powerful than him, Zhukov, absolutely hated his guts and had no problem finding allies to remove him.

    • @lukasj19999
      @lukasj19999 2 года назад +2

      Well, Chruschtschow wasnt bad…

    • @DarkFilmDirector
      @DarkFilmDirector 2 года назад +12

      Khrushchev turned out to be a pretty good leader. He effectively ended the period of severe excess and violence under Stalin. Even ending the practice of summary executions.

    • @jasonsanders8091
      @jasonsanders8091 2 года назад +11

      Zhukov was a genius general, but a hard hearted man too; he didn't spare soldiers lives in the way he threw them into battles, unlike Rokkovssky.
      Still, compared to Beria he was an angel of the first degree. It would've been a disaster to have Beria replace Stalin.

  • @Sammedine
    @Sammedine 2 года назад +6

    It's impressive how many people in the comments are experts on Soviet history after watching one comedy film where Steve Buscemi plays Krushchev.

  • @michaelwhittaker5432
    @michaelwhittaker5432 2 года назад +5

    Recently released C.I.A files mention that Zhukov and Eisenhower used to meet up for fishing trips in post war Europe and talk about the good ole days

    • @kenoliver8913
      @kenoliver8913 6 месяцев назад

      They were known friends, united by a passionate love of fly fishing.

  • @christianvik3400
    @christianvik3400 2 года назад +27

    Berija was earlier the head of the NKVD, which murdered millions in the 1930s, also many officers. The execution of Berija was the officers' families/relatives justified revenge.

    • @kenoliver8913
      @kenoliver8913 6 месяцев назад

      Yes, Zhukov had lost friends in the 1939 purge conducted by Beria that killed a third of the Red Army's leadership. In particular Beria had personally tortured Zhukov's mentor, Tukhachevsky. Zhukov himself only narrowly escaped by being sent to command an army in eastern Siberia, where he got himself back into Stalin's good books by giving the Japanese a hiding in the border war of 1940.

  • @johnflores1723
    @johnflores1723 2 года назад +9

    If those others had asked “Do you need help?” they might have lived…

  • @kerryflote1283
    @kerryflote1283 2 года назад +8

    Watch this Vladimir! It's how you're going to go.

  • @thetooginator153
    @thetooginator153 2 года назад +15

    “Well that’s got it done.” I would swear that Issacs had a slightly disturbed look on his face when he looks away from Beria’s body. Issacs NAILED this role!
    Also, if you look closely at what the camera shows (even in passing), it’s significant. When Beria’s list of rape charges is read, the camera passes a drawn pistol, then his portrait being taken down. Some serious foreshadowing there.

  • @Tunsmandie
    @Tunsmandie 2 года назад +90

    The soviet version of justice was jungle justice in every form.

    • @alexcc8664
      @alexcc8664 2 года назад +11

      You know what crimes this guy committed? Apparently even Stalin would let his family near this guy.

    • @Snwl1328
      @Snwl1328 2 года назад +5

      Beria was beyond filfth and anyone who'd sympathize with the man deserves to be hung

    • @JohnSmith-bs9ym
      @JohnSmith-bs9ym 2 года назад

      Though honestly, knowing the Soviets oftentimes alter records, we don't even know if any of his crimes are real or they just planted the evidence.

    • @Snwl1328
      @Snwl1328 2 года назад +1

      @@JohnSmith-bs9ym he was still head of the nkvd, even regardless of whether the other stuff was true or not he was a bad person

    • @alexcc8664
      @alexcc8664 2 года назад

      @@JohnSmith-bs9ym katyn?

  • @jarretthuffin
    @jarretthuffin 2 года назад +6

    Zukhov was the ONLY man Stalin couldn't kill. He had the love of the army and it's citizens. He wasn't a rabbit, he was a lion. They actually started calling him King maker, Stalin hated EVERY second of it. So when Stalin died everyone and they momma was running to Zukhov to get his blessing cause he had the military

  • @UnionSocialistSovietRepublics
    @UnionSocialistSovietRepublics Год назад +5

    Fun fact: Georgii Zhukov had 61 medals, check the wiki if you don't belive it.

  • @Darqshadow
    @Darqshadow 2 года назад +6

    Political officers vs battle hardened soldiers led by possibly the best military commander of the Soviets... actually surprised the USSR didn't fall apart when Zhukov passed.

  • @symmetry08
    @symmetry08 2 года назад +39

    It is so easy, sometimes, to bring down the system. You just take out the top element or the head figure in shortest amount of time, and it's over. Now, just blame him for all past evils on him and bury it with him, to grave.

    • @onya_marx
      @onya_marx 2 года назад +1

      I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

  • @alexandrumoraras
    @alexandrumoraras 2 года назад +11

    0:59 "go on kill them, will you" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Gweb52
    @Gweb52 2 года назад +7

    I’d watch a whole movie of Issac playing Zhukov

  • @Joe3pops
    @Joe3pops 2 года назад +11

    He got off easy. In the 1980s a Soviet airforce colonel of jet fighter squadron was sentenced to death by being burned alive. His crime was multiple rapes of wives of aircrew whom he sent on assignment. Hence the poor young ladies were alone at home.
    In accordance with this death sentence it was conducted on a parade square. His whole squadron at attention to witness sentence carried out.
    This is a rare event and said to be only officially carried out just three times since 1953ish.

    • @tomstratman9977
      @tomstratman9977 2 года назад +1

      Wait what? Do you know the name or any specific details in that story?

    • @philipcamp1370
      @philipcamp1370 2 года назад

      More facts.....

    • @Joe3pops
      @Joe3pops 2 года назад

      The witness refuses to talk about it. He only mentioned it once after Xmas dinner. I am guessing only was a 1980s event. In around 1970 there was a woman killed in rural Norway by burning. Her clothing had no tags on them. She was not dressed for hiking on the mountain trail they discovered her body. This kind of reeks of GRU hunting down a defecting spy.

  • @alecdeter1999
    @alecdeter1999 2 года назад +3

    Jason Isaac's is already a Chad of an actor but this is bombastic? I suppose is the word but he is superb in this

  • @NotALot-xm6gz
    @NotALot-xm6gz 2 года назад +6

    “Well, that’s got it done..”

  • @cloudstreets1396
    @cloudstreets1396 2 года назад +5

    If I were one of the guys holding him, I’d be like, “Yo!!! WTF? How about a little warning next time?!”

    • @owenthomas5103
      @owenthomas5103 2 года назад +5

      Yep, that shot destroyed one brain and at least two eardrums.

  • @ThePurple1968
    @ThePurple1968 2 года назад +5

    one of the best movies in recent years

  • @barbub3762
    @barbub3762 2 года назад +5

    Me and the boys at 3 am : 3:12

  • @egosumhomovespertilionem
    @egosumhomovespertilionem 2 года назад +3

    "Sorry, comrades. Wrong room!"
    Exit. Stage right.

  • @velvetthunder96
    @velvetthunder96 2 года назад +3

    It's weird how no one comments on the best line in this video:
    "Fok me, Georgy's eyes really do follow ya 'round the crapper"

  • @kennethhigdon1159
    @kennethhigdon1159 2 года назад +22

    Finally colonel Tavington is a Good Guy

    • @ramamoorthyh
      @ramamoorthyh 2 года назад +6

      Damn that man! Damn him! Send the entire cavalry over the hill! It ends today!

  • @ZAR556
    @ZAR556 2 года назад +4

    Beria lucky he got quick death.
    but if Beria not dealt quickly, his NKVD will wreck havoc.

  • @randomuser6175
    @randomuser6175 Год назад +2

    - Spit it out Giorgi staging a coup here
    It's like any other Monday for him :)))

  • @CF_2022_YT_CC
    @CF_2022_YT_CC 5 месяцев назад +3

    2:09 me when my classmate doesn’t stop hitting my backpack

  • @cesargonzalez4146
    @cesargonzalez4146 Месяц назад

    Jason Isaacs really steal the show on whatever scene he is, he's just so natural and really enjoys his craft.

  • @canadiancossack3316
    @canadiancossack3316 2 года назад +6

    I love how this is probably the most accurate depiction of a communist country purely cause nothing is fair

    • @reginabillotti
      @reginabillotti 10 месяцев назад +2

      Look up Lavrenty Beria (the man who is arrested and shot in this scene) and then see if you still think it's "unfair". (Granted, some of the others also had their own skeletons in the closet and were being somewhat hypocritical, but still, he deserved what he got)

  • @mysticdragonwolf89
    @mysticdragonwolf89 2 года назад +42

    Man I wish they had a heavy Scottish/ or Welish accented actor just burst in wearing Russian medals join the American and British accent crowd
    It would’ve added to the hilarity

    • @WrathOfGrapesN7
      @WrathOfGrapesN7 2 года назад +7

      Not to be pedantic, but Scottish and Welsh accents are British accents.

    • @mysticdragonwolf89
      @mysticdragonwolf89 2 года назад

      @@WrathOfGrapesN7 huh, the more you know, thanks

    • @worldwidewendall6181
      @worldwidewendall6181 2 года назад

      The small role of Brezhnev seems to have a Geordie accent in the couple of lines he had.

    • @GintaPPE1000
      @GintaPPE1000 2 года назад +3

      Brezhnev has a Scottish accent. A lot of his scenes can only be seen in the deleted cut, but he’s the one who says “I’ll take the tall blonde” in this video.

    • @njd2342
      @njd2342 6 месяцев назад

      Even better an Irish man as they played no part in WW2 (helping the Germans when they could).

  • @Mbabbb399
    @Mbabbb399 2 года назад +7

    Zhukov about the only honorable man in the room also if I was one of the guards holding barrier at that moment when they fired I’d be pissed to say the least Tokarevs Have one of the biggest fireballs that can come out of a handgun I know that’s not actually how it went real life but still

  • @fenrir5
    @fenrir5 5 месяцев назад +2

    With Zhukov I like how he walks into the Kremlin with a jacket with two AKs hidden underneath and the curious question is how did he get those AKs to hang on his sides like that underneath his jacket?

  • @mr.unknowx3786
    @mr.unknowx3786 2 года назад +30

    This movie is pure gold

  • @sneakytaze5336
    @sneakytaze5336 2 года назад +2

    Assuming the officers with blue lining on their caps are what? Political officers? Whilst red outline are just regular soviet army officers?

    • @ey7290
      @ey7290 2 года назад

      Secret police, the ones responsible for carrying out the genocide under Stalin

    • @Shadowman4710
      @Shadowman4710 Год назад +1

      Blue lining is NKVD...Red is Army.

  • @GrrMeister
    @GrrMeister 2 года назад +5

    Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
    As I foretold you, were all spirits
    Are melted into air, into thin air:
    And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
    The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
    The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
    Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
    And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
    Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
    As dreams are made on, and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep.

  • @lordseelenfresserdemonking1168
    @lordseelenfresserdemonking1168 2 года назад +2

    This whole coup scene always interested me
    Seeing the military return taking over from the officers with the music and suspense

  • @jakej2680
    @jakej2680 2 года назад +5

    RIP to their eardrums

  • @m1a2abramsmainbattletank58
    @m1a2abramsmainbattletank58 2 года назад +2

    1:38 right on the left, we see the picture of Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin.

  • @markborishnikoff5485
    @markborishnikoff5485 2 года назад +6

    0:21 and at that moment, millions of Russians and others under the oppressive Soviet Empire felt a huge sense of gratification.

  • @exposingproxystalkingorgan4164
    @exposingproxystalkingorgan4164 2 года назад +2

    These actors are all very good. I have seen their other acting roles.

  • @orange8420
    @orange8420 2 года назад +16

    Why ZHUKOV look like rokossovsky

    • @duebloom1678
      @duebloom1678 2 года назад

      I keep thinking the same thing.

  • @gavinperry8433
    @gavinperry8433 2 года назад +3

    " Spit out Georgie " Lol

  • @YourLocalLeadFarmer
    @YourLocalLeadFarmer 2 года назад +4

    I would never trust Beria around my kids.

  • @doloresmiguelcampos7928
    @doloresmiguelcampos7928 2 года назад +14

    Another good video grandson.

  • @NelliesPCWorkshop
    @NelliesPCWorkshop 2 года назад +24

    The Russians need some one like Field Marshal Zhukov to take out Putin. 🙏

  • @Lena-xj5uh
    @Lena-xj5uh 5 месяцев назад +2

    Good old Russia. Nothing has changed so far.

  • @MACTEP-il1eu
    @MACTEP-il1eu 2 года назад +45

    It’s events like these that cause my family that were in the red army during the time of Stalin, to stay middle class ranks rather than high class

  • @estebanquinones5918
    @estebanquinones5918 2 года назад +2

    "fuck me Georgie's eyes really go follow you wherever you go"
    "Why is there a picture of my grandmother here?"
    Pure gold.

  • @no_one01-5
    @no_one01-5 2 года назад +3

    It's a eternal shame of Khrushchev, what he eventually did to Zhukov, in -57. Zhukov was just too powerful and he cared.

  • @insaneomen25
    @insaneomen25 2 года назад +2

    If I were to walk in to that coup, I'd ask if I could help in such a scenario. That is the only way one would live.

    • @s2k997
      @s2k997 Год назад

      Probably the best response indeed; I imagine a large part of the reason why Zhukov and the plotters ordered them to be chased down and dealt with so harshly was because they couldn't take the risk of them running into a barracks and summoning hundreds of soldiers for a counter-coup. Their uninvited escape was too bold a move, if they had done as you said, good chance they'd have made it.

    • @robert100xx
      @robert100xx Год назад +1

      @@s2k997 Zuikov gave a pause and the angle of his face inquired 'Well?' and there was the razor edge moment when the wrong words were uttered. Terrible thin line between sleeping in your own bed tonight or the last russian ration, 9mm lead.

  • @MacKennaTheGoddessofRadiation
    @MacKennaTheGoddessofRadiation 2 года назад +3

    I feel bad for the guards who were judt like "I didnt see anything" and got shot

    • @LordNinja109
      @LordNinja109 Год назад

      Don't, they were NKVD, not just guards but "political police" who helped kill hundreds of thousands.

  • @anghusmorgenholz1060
    @anghusmorgenholz1060 10 месяцев назад +1

    I've always thought that Kruchev snd the general had something planned years for years specifically to counter Baria.

  • @colincomber8027
    @colincomber8027 2 года назад +3

    What a superb cast

  • @ikkimi7745
    @ikkimi7745 5 месяцев назад +1

    Love this movie but I must point out something completely irrelevant; the soldier restraining Beria's right hand is incredibly handsome.