The dictator's final days — watch a monster become mortal.
Season 1 • Episode 4
LatestThe last months of Stalin's life.
Acting
Yursky's Stalin: terrifying, pathetic, unforgettable.
Direction
Lyubinskiy traps you in the Kremlin's suffocating corridors.
Creator
Efim Lyubinskiy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian state TV commissioned this, then buried it — too honest about the mechanics of terror for comfort.
Yursky prepared by studying medical records of Stalin's final stroke; the slurred speech and left-side paralysis are clinically accurate.
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