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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Syt

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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garbon

Years and Years

I should have done a little more research on this Russell T Davies show beyond learning that Emma Thompson and Russell Tovey were in it. Was not expecting that / the last 5-10 minutes or so!

Had to watch a bit of Derry Girls to calm down enough for sleep. :blush:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

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Eddie Teach

Long Shot. Funny.
Curse of la Llorona. Scary.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Grey Fox

The Death of Stalin

Jason Isaacs as fouled mouth Zhukov tears the screen.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

viper37

Pacific Rim: Uprising.

Better than the first.  That's not saying much.  There are giant robots fighting one another, lots of explosions, lots of destruction, more so than Godzilla, and finally, they realize why these giant monsters from the Pacific attack them.

Did I say there were explosions?  Yeah.  That sums it up :P
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Habbaku

Quote from: Grey Fox on May 16, 2019, 09:02:15 AM
The Death of Stalin

Jason Isaacs as fouled mouth Zhukov tears the screen.

He was perfect. Cockney Zhukov is the best.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

The Minsky Moment

"I fooked Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fooking waistcoat." :lol:
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Razgovory

Quote from: Habbaku on May 16, 2019, 04:08:29 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 16, 2019, 09:02:15 AM
The Death of Stalin

Jason Isaacs as fouled mouth Zhukov tears the screen.

He was perfect. Cockney Zhukov is the best.

That movie was great.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

KRonn

Quote from: Syt on May 14, 2019, 12:45:27 PM
RIP Tim Conway

https://comb.io/IIcCX6

RIP. He did a lot of shows but I mainly remember him from McHale's Navy, a classic oldie comedy.

Syt

We didn't get much of him over here, but we did have his Dorf stuff.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Grey Fox

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on May 16, 2019, 04:15:49 PM
"I fooked Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fooking waistcoat." :lol:

:lol:

Was Beria really a pedophile?
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

grumbler

Quote from: Grey Fox on May 17, 2019, 08:12:36 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on May 16, 2019, 04:15:49 PM
"I fooked Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fooking waistcoat." :lol:

:lol:

Was Beria really a pedophile?

Beria wasn't head of the KGB in the time period of the movie.  The movie is about as historically accurate as 300.  Accuracy isn't supposed to be part of the appeal.
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Bayraktar!

Malthus

Quote from: Grey Fox on May 17, 2019, 08:12:36 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on May 16, 2019, 04:15:49 PM
"I fooked Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fooking waistcoat." :lol:

:lol:

Was Beria really a pedophile?

He was definitely a rapist, according to numerous accounts (though given the Soviet approach to truth, it is hard to say anything for sure). Stalin allegedly wouldn't let his daughter alone with him ... apparently there is some evidence he raped and murdered a bunch of teenaged girls, then buried them in his wife's rose garden. 

QuoteAt Beria's trial in 1953, it became known that he had committed numerous rapes during the years he was NKVD chief.[24] Simon Sebag-Montefiore, a biographer of Stalin, concluded the information "reveals a sexual predator who used his power to indulge himself in obsessive depravity."[25][26]

His case files in the Soviet archives contained the official testimony from Colonel Rafael Semyonovich Sarkisov and Colonel Sardion Nikolaevich Nadaraia, two of Beria's most senior NKVD bodyguards. They stated that, on warm nights during the war years, Beria was often driven slowly through the streets of Moscow in his armored Packard limousine. He would point out young women to be detained and escorted to his mansion, where wine and a feast awaited them. After dining, Beria would take the women into his soundproofed office and rape them. Beria's bodyguards reported that their duties included handing each victim a flower bouquet as she left Beria's house. Accepting it implied that the sex had been consensual; refusal would mean arrest. In one incident, his chief bodyguard, Sarkisov, reported that a woman who had been brought to Beria rejected his advances and ran out of his office; Sarkisov mistakenly handed her the flowers anyway, prompting the enraged Beria to declare, "Now it's not a bouquet, it's a wreath! May it rot on your grave!" The NKVD arrested the woman the next day.[25]

Women also submitted to Beria's sexual advances in exchange for the promise of freeing their relatives from the Gulag. In one case, Beria picked up Tatiana Okunevskaya, a well-known Soviet actress, under the pretence of bringing her to perform for the Politburo. Instead he took her to his dacha, where he offered to free her father and grandmother from NKVD prison if she submitted. He then raped her, telling her: "Scream or not, it doesn't matter."[27] Beria, however, already knew that her relatives had been executed months earlier. Okunevskaya was arrested shortly afterwards and sentenced to solitary confinement in the Gulag, which she survived.

Beria's sexually predatory nature was well known to the Politburo, and though Stalin took an indulgent viewpoint (considering Beria's wartime importance), he said, "I don't trust Beria." In one instance, when Stalin learned his daughter was alone with Beria at his house, he telephoned her and told her to leave immediately. When Beria complimented Alexander Poskrebyshev's daughter on her beauty, Poskrebyshev quickly pulled her aside and instructed her, "Don't ever accept a lift from Beria."[28] After taking an interest in Marshal Kliment Voroshilov's daughter-in-law during a party at their summer dacha, Beria shadowed their car closely all the way back to the Kremlin, terrifying Voroshilov's wife.

Prior to and during the war, Beria directed Sarkisov to keep a running list of the names and phone numbers of his sexual encounters. Eventually, he ordered Sarkisov to destroy the list as a security risk, but the colonel retained a secret handwritten copy. When Beria's fall from power began, Sarkisov passed the list to Viktor Abakumov, the former wartime head of SMERSH and now chief of the MGB – the successor to the NKVD. Abakumov was already aggressively building a case against Beria. Stalin, who was also seeking to undermine Beria, was thrilled by the detailed records kept by Sarkisov, demanding: "Send me everything this asshole writes down!"[27] Sarkisov reported that Beria's sexual appetite had led to him contracting syphilis during the war, for which he was secretly treated without the knowledge of Stalin or the Politburo (a fact Beria later admitted during his interrogation).[29] Although the Russian government acknowledged Sarkisov's handwritten list of Beria's victims on 17 January 2003, the victims' names will not be released until 2028.

Evidence suggests that not only did Beria abduct and rape women, but that some were also murdered. His villa in Moscow is now the Tunisian Embassy (at

55°45′34″N 37°35′10″E). In the mid 1990s, routine work in the grounds turned up the bone remains of several young women buried in the gardens.[30] According to Martin Sixsmith, in a BBC documentary, "Beria spent his nights having teenagers abducted from the streets and brought here for him to rape. Those who resisted were strangled and buried in his wife's rose garden."[31]

The testimony of Sarkisov and Nadaraia has been partially corroborated by Edward Ellis Smith, an American who served in the U.S. embassy in Moscow after the war. According to historian Amy Knight, "Smith noted that Beria's escapades were common knowledge among embassy personnel because his house was on the same street as a residence for Americans, and those who lived there saw girls brought to Beria's house late at night in a limousine."[32] 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Sexual_predator
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Grey Fox

Quote from: grumbler on May 17, 2019, 08:48:23 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 17, 2019, 08:12:36 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on May 16, 2019, 04:15:49 PM
"I fooked Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fooking waistcoat." :lol:

:lol:

Was Beria really a pedophile?

Beria wasn't head of the KGB in the time period of the movie.  The movie is about as historically accurate as 300.  Accuracy isn't supposed to be part of the appeal.

Is it because it did not exist in 1953?  :hmm: ;)

@Malthus, so a maybe but probably.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Habbaku

Beria was one of the biggest evils in a nation of biggest evils. The movie got that right.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien