Director Armando Iannucci from the film ‘The Death of Stalin’ poses for a portrait in the YouTube x Getty Images Portrait Studio at 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2018 in Park City, Utah. (Robby Klein/Getty Images)
In his non-fiction book The Gulag Archipelago, the dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn paints a scene wherein a Soviet party member called for a tribute to Comrade Stalin at the end of a 1938 conference in Moscow Province. Everyone leapt to their feet, offering “stormy applause.” It went on like this for five minutes. Palms swelled. Legs fatigued. But still, everyone clapped and clapped, …read more
Source: Macleans
