![]() Buscemi would seem an odd choice for that particular role but he pulls it off with style and excellence. Even the nominal "hero" of the tale, Nakita Khrushchev, is realistically portrayed as being just as conniving and callous and power hungry as everyone else. The whole cast played their parts well and played them "straight" - which only heightened the humor and the horror of what life was like under Stalin in the Soviet Union. Beria, for instance, is portrayed as every bit the monster in human form that he was - this, even as that portrayal is also made darkly and delightfully humorous at times. To Iannucci and Schneider's credit however, there was absolutely no glossing over at all. I was worried that, in an attempt to extract humor from the situation that they might've glossed over just how monstrous the key characters actually were. And its treatment of the Stalin Era of the Soviet Union is both darkly humorous and actually very unflinching in its depicting the monsters and their monstrosities for what they were.
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