# The Death of Stalin

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/pop-locke/the-death-of-stalin>

**By** Eric Gomez, Emma Ashford, John Glaser, Natalie Dowzicky, Landry Ayres

**Published:** November 24, 2021

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Eric Gomez, Emma Ashford, and John Glaser join the podcast to discuss Iannucci's dark war comedy, The Death of Stalin.

## Summary:

In 1953, under the Great Terror's heavy cloak of state paranoia, the ever-watchful Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, collapses. When they discover his body the following morning, a frenetic surge of raw panic starts spreading like a virus amongst the senior members of the Politburo, as they scramble to maintain order, weed out the competition, and take power.