Stalin-sympathetic documentaries

[fa2991]

I enjoyed "The Passion of Mao" and was wondering if there is an equivalent doc out there about Stalin. Most Stalin docs I've come across are just drab, inaccurate Hitler Channel trash.

[fa2991]

On a side note, don't you love that all anti-Stalin documentaries talk endlessly about "The Real Stalin" and "The Stalin You Don't Know About!" but theirs is the only view of Stalin ever presented?

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

Why the hell would anyone want to attempt to glorify a man who murdered his wives off with his bear hands, was a total asshole is his eldest son, and corrupted Marxisms biggest chance by turning it into a shit hole of totalitarianism and state-capitalism?

[fa2991]

Why the hell would anyone want to attempt to glorify a man who murdered his wives off with his bear hands, was a total asshole is his eldest son, and corrupted Marxisms biggest chance by turning it into a shit hole of totalitarianism and state-capitalism?

There are two sides to every coin. I'm looking for a doc that sees something else in Stalin.

Please don't derail this thread with a flame war about this shit.

[Comrade_Stalin]

I enjoyed "The Passion of Mao" and was wondering if there is an equivalent doc out there about Stalin. Most Stalin docs I've come across are just drab, inaccurate Hitler Channel trash.

The only one that I could find, was Mission to Moscow, but it is not a documentarie like the ones we are use to today. One of the things I found when I came to the left is the is very few pro-Left documentarie, books, or games. Most are just right wing or trying to hide it.

In fact one of those doc tryed to turn Hitler into a gay, jew, communist. It made no sense to me and to this day I ask why did the history channel ran it.

[The Fighting_Crusnik]

Well... Stalin isn't exactly a well liked person... You could always look for Soviet-era propaganda on Youtube... I'm not sure where else you'd go...

[Kuppo Shakur]

his bear hands

The truth about Stalin.

[fa2991]

Why the hell would anyone want to attempt to glorify a man who murdered his wives off with his bear hands

[fa2991]

The only one that I could find, was Mission to Moscow, but it is not a documentarie like the ones we are use to today. One of the things I found when I came to the left is the is very few pro-Left documentarie, books, or games. Most are just right wing or trying to hide it.

I started M2M a few days ago; I think I'll go finish it.

[Chimurenga.]

I've never come across one but there should be one available somewhere seeing how he is seen as a hero to a lot of people internationally.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Oliver Stone should make a movie about Stalin.

[fa2991]

Oliver Stone should make a movie about Stalin.

I think he said that TV series he's doing is going to portray him & Mao in a slightly less-than-evil light.

[Os Cangaceiros]

He's always good for making dickheads appear slightly less dickheadish.

[Comrade_Stalin]

I've never come across one but there should be one available somewhere seeing how he is seen as a hero to a lot of people internationally.

Well there is one on Ernesto "Che" Guevara, but I could only find M2M. May be it the lack of support from left wing groups, or it may be because the win always writes the history books.

[Coyote]

I've never heard of a positive documentary made about him, but I have heard good things about Ludo Marten's book, "Another View of Stalin", which is on my reading list.

[fa2991]

I'm reading that now. It's quite good so far.

[Kléber]

Your best bet is newsreels and propaganda films from the actual Stalin era, when art was subject to the strict moral and political standards of "socialist realism." From the start of the Zhdanovshchina, any movie about contemporary Soviet life would have at least one obligatory scene where all the "good" characters get seized with devotion at a Party event and start yelling praises to the Great Leader, Stalin (if the film was about pre-Soviet history then there would merely be a suspiciously Stalin-like leader character). If you can get a hold of it try Chiaureli's The Fall of Berlin (1949), it has the biggest budget and the most ridiculous Stalin ever - he goes from giving sage advice to lovelorn Stakhanovites, to personally leading the Red Army into Berlin, but wants nothing more than to relax, "get away from it all" and tend to the private garden at his dacha.

http://www.kinokultura.com/2007/15r-padenie.shtml




Also, Ludo Martens is a lying hack. It is hard to find a single sentence in his Stalin book where he is not deliberately trying to mislead or misinform the reader.

[fa2991]

I recognize those images! That first one must be Stalin when he was going by "Gardener of Human Happiness."

[Bright Banana Beard]

+ YouTube Video

The best scene, he even managed to impress the Allies troop and impregnate a lady by pointing at her.

[DecDoom]

I actually have that movie on DVD.