"The Death of Stalin" - a dark comedy

[NNadir]

9. I remember him well. I was taught to hate him. He looked like Mr. Potatohead. Once I understood history though...

...in many ways he was a great man given the fact he lived a terrible system.

It was not an easy thing to take down the Stalin cult.

In other ways, he risked the world, but in the end he handled that boy Kennedy pretty well after testing him. He had the courage, and let's be clear, it was courage, to back down. It cost him his career, but what was notable was that he was allowed to live afterwards.

I actually believe that the Cuban Missile Crisis (for which I largely hold Kennedy, not Khrushchev, responsible) set the world on a path to an unsettled peace, but peace all the same. There were no other world wars, only a cold war, which happily was just that, cold.