The Chekist
Friends have seen it, and tell me its one of the most disturbing movies they have seen, but a must see movie, the critics loved it, gave it five stars. I'm disturbed by reading the review.
This disturbing Russian drama shows the Bolshevik "revolution" for what it really was: a merciless and cruel counter-revolutionary coup d'etat by a group of egalitarian zealots who were willing to slaughter any enemy (real or imagined) who stood in their way. Lenin's Bolshevik regime was the 20th century's first totalitarian "terror-state," who's blueprint would be copied again and again by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein. Many will be shaken by this film, as it shows mass execution after mass execution of innocent victims (Christians, workers, aristocrats, even Jews), who were forced to strip naked before being murdered in cold blood. The first reviewer was right - this film does shame Hollywood, who are constantly rubbing our noses in the evils of Fascism but completely ignore the bloody deeds committed by the Communists.