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VLASIK
THE SHADOW OF LONELINESS

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Nikolai Vlasik was arrested
on December 16, 1952.

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At the time of his arrest,
he said prophetic words:

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"If I am gone, Stalin is gone."

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And he turned out to be right.

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The strange death of Stalin
followed in 2.5 months.

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On that fateful night on March 1, 1953,

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the key part was played
by Beria’s mysterious behavior.

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A stroke hit Stalin
in the morning of March 1.

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He fell down in a small dining room
and lied there for ten hours

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without getting any help

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since he previously forbade the guards
to come to his quarters uninvited.

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He was found there only at 10 PM

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when courier service came to Blizhnyaya.

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First, the guards called Ignatiev,
the head of the State Security.

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In two hours,
Beria and Malenkov arrived to the "dacha".

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They told the guards not to disturb
their sleeping leader till next morning

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although there were
obvious signs of a stroke.

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Hence, Stalin has spent almost 24 hours
without medical assistance.

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Later, standing above the Mausoleum,
Beria will confess to Molotov:

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“It was me who took him away.”

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He seemed to know what he was saying.

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At the time of these events,
Vlasik was kept

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in solitary confinement
in the Butyrka prison.

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They tortured him sophisticatedly.

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The investigation was supervised
personally by Beria.

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Part 14

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Comrade Colonel!
Senior Lieutenant Yasin at your service!

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- How is he?
- Shall I change the record?

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- This one… Ah-h-h!
- Gotcha.

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- How long it’s been playing?
- Twenty-four hours.

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It’s a bit too much. He might just…

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He’ll outlive us both.
Healthy as a horse.

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Whatever you say.

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One more hour, and then we'll talk.

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- Dismissed!
- Yes!

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You are so neat handed, Valyusha.

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You don’t change with the age.

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- Tolstoy. "Bleak Morning".
- Yes.

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I haven't read it.

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And I wanted to read it again.

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Blind fool that I was!
I dreamt of amending this world

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with my unrightful deeds
and maintaining law with unlawfulness.

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But it is Schiller,
Joseph Vissarionovich.

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Right. Exactly. It is Schiller.

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Do you remember how you played Amelia?

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- It’s been a long time ago.
- But I remember.

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Everything to the last detail.

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I even remember your dress.

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Comrade mister Tolstoy

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added my story about your show
to his novel.

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His Red Army soldiers staged "The Robbers"
during the Civil War.

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He did it beautifully, no doubt.

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Every word at its place.

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Well done, Alexey Nikolaevich.

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Valya, I don't understand. What is it?

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It’s a jam. From our base.

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Plum, cornel, cherry, peach.

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Do you have
any of your home-made jam left?

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You remember? You made it yourself
from our apples?

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- Yes, I have it.
- Bring it, please. You can take these.

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But we didn’t get it from a store,
Joseph Vissarionovich.

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It's from our base
at Varfonisievsky Pereulok.

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The one with a lab.
Vlasik established it...

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Valentina Vasilievna,
make me some chicken soup.

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But choose the chicken yourself
and cook it yourself.

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Give me the book.

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Go.

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Are you cold? Here, get warm.

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Yeah… You look like…

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But, as they say,
the looks are not everything.

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Tell me to which of your drinking buddies
did you blab out the state secrets?

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What are you talking about?
I don't get it.

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You don’t?

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Your own friend, Stenberg, the artist,
testified how you drank together,

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how you kept talking
about comrade Stalin

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and about comrade Beria.

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Indeed, I did frequently drink liquor
with my friends and with Stenberg,

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but I did this at the expense
of my own health

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while I was off duty.

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I never discussed my work
and the state secrets with anyone.

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I am not an idiot after all.

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No, you are not an idiot.

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You are an enemy.

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You covered the doctors-killers,
you wasted public money.

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You gave nice jobs to your buddies.

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We know everything about you.

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We know that you wanted to kill
comrade Beria

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and that you were gathering data
on comrade Malenkov.

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Look at me, scum!
I wanna see your eyes!

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We know that you conspired
against our Soviet healthcare

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with Poskryobyshev and other Jews.

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And you conspired
against comrade Stalin, bitch!

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If you know it all,
why the heck are you asking me?

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You don't want to do it in a good way.

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We'll do it in a bad way then.

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Nadya, what's all this noise?

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Mom, I've been standing at the door
for half an hour.

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- I even started to worry.
- About what? What could happen to me?

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Last month you fainted at the street.
You forgot?

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I remember it.

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Are you hungry? I’ve got herring
with onions and potatoes. Dad’s favorite.

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Yes, I am.

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I'll stay here for a while.

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I broke up with my husband.

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He asked me to.

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He is risking his career.

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Moreover...

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I've been fired from the university.

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So I am unmarried and unemployed now.

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You didn’t deserve all this.

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Why are you so surprised?

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That's how the public enemies' families
are usually treated.

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You mean, your father is a public enemy?
What are you saying, Nadya?

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They said, if I publicly renounce my dad
at the university assembly,

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they’d keep me part-time. I said no.

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If we show this mug
what life is about,

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we'll have enough tea, tobacco
and other perks

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till the end of our prison time.

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Go.

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Look at this trendy chap.

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Stop it, guys.

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I have nothing to lose.

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Colonel Glushko.

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Greetings, comra… Affirmative.

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He’s been transferred to the felons.
Negative.

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Not yet. Don’t worry, comra…

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They are our most valuable people.
They know what to do.

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By the morning,
he will be as meek as a lamb.

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I understand.

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If he doesn’t speak,
proceed to extreme measure.

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Affirmative, comrade General. Yes!

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Vasya!

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Tomka!

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My bro!

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Guys! This is Tomka!

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Tomka, Artyom Sergeev, my sworn brother!

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Come on in!

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Tom, bring your suitcase.
Let’s go with us. Come on!

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Come on in.

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- Don’t even think about it.
- Or what?

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You’ll do as I say if you want to live.

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Shepherd, why is he so cocky?

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I don’t know, Wild. He might be
hiding a blade. Check him, please.

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Cut this bitch! Do it!

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Chief! Chief!

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Come here! Open the door!

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Let’s go! Come on!

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Oh, Vasya, Vasya…

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My dear beautiful people!

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I have a train to catch at the sunrise.
Goodbye, Moscow!

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- Hello, Siberia!
- You are so lucky.

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You are welcome to join me!

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Where? And what about my hockey
and football players?

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My swimmer and gymnast girls?
They’ll go to Siberia with me?

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Tomka! I selected
the best in this country.

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What, are you so dizzy
with other people’s fame?

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These words sound familiar.

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Dad?

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Daddy!

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Dad, are you here?

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Dad! Where are you? Stop hiding!

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Dad!

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Is my dad here?

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It is strange! Dad! Where are you hiding?

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- Dad! Come out!
- It is not about the father, Vasya.

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It's just that we both love you
the same way. We are worried about you.

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We care about you.
And you are killing yourself, Vasya.

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With your drinking.
You lost your profession.

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You’ve got no family.

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Look at yourself, Red.

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You really became red.

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Your face did.

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- What are you doing?
- Come here, bitch!

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- What?
- Did he send you?

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- Did he send you, bitch?
- What…

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Bitch!

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Bitch!

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You are an idiot, Vasya.

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Tom!

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Toma! Tom!

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I fell from my bed, chief.

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You should have been more careful.

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One should sleep at night,
not to roll over in their bed.

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To gather one’s strength.

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You're gonna need it in the logging camp.

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And so will your wife. And your daughter.

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By the way, the cripple that fell
from the bed together with you…

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Bang!

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He was useless and causing trouble.

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So think carefully.

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‘Cause you are useless too.

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Have some pity of your girls.

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Tom!

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Tom!

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Tom, wait! Tom!

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- Come back!
- Screw you!

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I can’t, Vasya.
I have to catch that train.

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Let me drive you to the train station.

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Please.

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Let’s go.

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I’ve been thinking about it.
The present shouldn’t cause…

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Say, Lenin's collected edition.

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Soon it will be two dozens
of these editions, huh?

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- I saw a great horse.
- A horse is a funny gift.

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Some seedlings, maybe?
He loves planting.

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- What about a painting?
- Anastas, really! Make it a monument.

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- Yeah… We have to think.
- Listen!

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Let us take a walk.

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Breathe some air. We've been spending
too much time indoors.

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- Okay, let’s go.
- Yeah.

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I thought Nikita was the best friend.

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All of us are the best friends here.

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But sometimes
we need to give each other a break.

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Right?

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Well, Lazar Moiseyevich,
where do you think you will go?

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I want to come back to Georgia.

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I will make wine. Nino always wanted
to live at grandpa’s vineyard.

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And you can go down, to your metro.
At least you can be a driver there,

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and you could
get us jobs there too.

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Don’t go pale! I am just kidding.

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See you at the master’s!

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- I don’t like this.
- What?

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When I visited the master on Monday,
we took a walk.

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- Yeah…
- And he is now very short-winded.

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So I wanted to play along with him
and started breathing loud.

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So I tell him, we are all getting older.
And he just snapped.

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He says, that’s you who are getting older.
You are the old cheese.

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I’ll throw you all in the trash, and soon.

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So…

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We'd better stick together, just in case.

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You see, Lavrentiy is already
up to something.

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- We should bring Molotov back.
- And keep him closer to us.

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- And Zhukov!
- Why is that?

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Why don't you get it?

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You are a son of such a great man!

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I wish he were
a street cleaner or a shoemaker.

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At least I'd be happy.

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Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind?

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Why? I've never had life and I never will.
You know that, right?

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We'll even share death.

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- I’m gone when he is.
- No, Vasya.

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No.

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Come on, Tom.

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You are right, he is great.

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Listen! You know what?
Let's go to my place.

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I’ll send you by air tomorrow night.
Siberia certainly isn’t going anywhere.

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- What's going on? Everyone's there?
- They are gathering, comrade Stalin.

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00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,360
Does it remind you of anything?

250
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,320
A funeral.

251
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:22,080
God forbid, comrade Stalin!

252
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,840
Back then, in the beginning of the war,
I said to Vlasik

253
00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:29,800
that God was dead.

254
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,600
I was mistaken then.

255
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:42,800
How is he, by the way?

256
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:45,520
Who?

257
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,400
Face to the wall.

258
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:05,760
Let’s do it like this.

259
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,040
As you wish.

260
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,000
Are you praying?

261
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,000
- What day is it today?
- What?

262
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:24,480
Day…

263
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,680
Okay. It’s December 21.

264
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:36,440
Stand by!

265
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:43,120
Stand down!

266
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,760
This time you are forgiven.

267
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:06,920
Damn!

268
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,040
Don’t even think of dying.

269
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,000
Come here.

270
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,360
We’re taking him to the Infirmary.

271
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:25,720
We’ve went…

272
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,960
…a very hard way together.

273
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,800
A long way we went together.

274
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:42,080
And I feel that we are
quite fed up with each other.

275
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:47,800
Or is it just me?

276
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,160
Not at all, comrade Stalin,
all of us here…

277
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:55,000
I didn't mean that...

278
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,640
…you were fed up with me.

279
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,000
I meant quite the opposite.

280
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,560
Well, all kidding aside.

281
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,400
We have another year of life ahead of us.

282
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,360
And it will be tough for us all.

283
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,840
Leave him, guys. I'll take it from here.

284
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,800
Can you get up yourself?

285
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,720
This is your second heart attack,
Nikolai Sidorovich. It is very dangerous.

286
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,280
I look at them…

287
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,040
They are talking squirrels.

288
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:52,120
But sometimes these squirrels
grow huge fangs.

289
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:55,760
I remember...

290
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,800
It was on the same day, and I turned...

291
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,720
…younger than now.

292
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:10,840
And I proposed
to keep the Defense Committee

293
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,640
for ruling the country in peacetime.

294
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:14,720
And what happened?

295
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,440
Quite a present you made for me!

296
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,120
First you agreed,
but later, at the plenum...

297
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:28,280
None of the Party executives were ready...

298
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,200
What is it, really?

299
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,800
Each time I want to ease off the Party,
you all get defensive.

300
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,880
Comrade Stalin,
I’ve always kept loyal to your position.

301
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,720
Don’t lie to me!

302
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,120
Lavrentiy…

303
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:54,960
You forgot.

304
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,720
I know everything about everyone.

305
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:06,520
Everything.

306
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,640
Father! Sorry for being late!
I had to pick up the present!

307
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,720
It doesn't look much
but it will keep you busy in the old age.

308
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,800
- Working with the jigsaw…
- I told you not to come here like that.

309
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,880
Come on, dad! Do you think I'm...

310
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,760
Dad, come on, we've all been there.

311
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,680
- Tom came to visit me.
- I know. I asked him

312
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,480
to visit you, fool,
and to talk to you like a brother.

313
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,560
But it seems that Artyom
just wasted his time.

314
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,600
Get out.

315
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,240
Uncle Nikita is probably doing
dance squatting now, right?

316
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,640
Dad, please! They are all drunk!
They might not even notice!

317
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,840
Vasya!

318
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,400
Why do you do this to me?

319
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:32,600
Why?

320
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:45,240
Forgive me.

321
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,080
God will forgive.

322
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,360
- Go.
- This clown…

323
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:54,480
Take this loafer home and make sure
that nothing happens to him.

324
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:55,440
Yes!

325
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,200
Dad, that’s me, your little boss.

326
00:31:58,840 --> 00:31:59,800
Svetlanka…

327
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,840
- This is for you.
- It can wait. Go inside.

328
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,400
Dad, don’t get upset.

329
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,280
- Go inside.
- Joseph Vissarionovich!

330
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:12,840
- You go too.
- Hello.

331
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:14,320
Hello.

332
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,240
What are you doing here? Go inside!

333
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,320
I will replace these people. But...

334
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,400
What do I do with my kids?

335
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,040
Forward march!

336
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:21,840
Where?

337
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,160
Where, I am asking you!

338
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:30,920
Where? Stop!

339
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:32,480
Stop now!

340
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:45,880
You can pass.

341
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:00,160
Comrade officer!

342
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,600
- Colony prisoner Vlasik at your service.
- Sit.

343
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,520
"From the Central Committee"

344
00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:16,920
"of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union,"

345
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,000
"the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR"

346
00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:26,600
"and the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR"

347
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,920
"to all Party members"

348
00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:36,080
"and all working people of the USSR."

349
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,640
Mom, what took you so long?

350
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,440
Nadyusha, I was waiting for a nurse.

351
00:34:55,240 --> 00:34:57,280
I forgot to buy your medicine.

352
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,680
I’ll go to get it.

353
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,280
Well, girls…

354
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:54,920
Did you miss your dad?

355
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,120
That’s it. I am here now.

356
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,000
I am not going anywhere.

357
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,000
Hello?

358
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,520
Dad... It's for you.

359
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:13,680
Yes.

360
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:18,520
Yes, Vlasik.

361
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,160
I am hungry.

362
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,400
Nikolai… Sidorovich.

363
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:02,480
Dubinin!

364
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:05,920
Dubinin.

365
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:08,720
Well…

366
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,040
Let’s take a walk.

367
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,760
Dubinin, my dear man, try to remember
all you can from those days.

368
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,240
Well…

369
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,560
They hardly celebrated
Sveta's birthday on that year.

370
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,800
But on February 28,

371
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,120
the master with his men
were sitting almost till morning.

372
00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:02,840
Then he saw them off.

373
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:08,760
And then he said to Lozgachev,
”Don’t wake me up, I’ll sleep late.”

374
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,760
“You go to sleep too.”

375
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,880
Damn! And the guards went to sleep?

376
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:16,840
They listened to him, Kolya.

377
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,080
I'd just shoot them for this listening.

378
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:26,720
Listen, Dubinin,
let’s go there on the sly.

379
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,000
I wanna see it with my own eyes.
Feel it with my feet.

380
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:33,600
Let’s do it.

381
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,720
The officers would come
only in the morning.

382
00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:39,360
The duty soldiers
started sleeping at nights.

383
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,480
That’s alright. There’s no one to guard.

384
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:46,520
And…

385
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,760
In the morning...

386
00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:53,520
They check the motion detectors...
It's all good.

387
00:40:56,240 --> 00:40:57,800
Well…

388
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,320
It means, the master is asleep.

389
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,320
The day has gone and…

390
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,400
…the boss didn’t go out.
Everyone started to worry.

391
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,200
But who would risk to come in?

392
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:16,040
Besides you,
no one could do that uninvited.

393
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,960
- No one could.
- And Valya Istomina? Where was she?

394
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:23,200
Valya…

395
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,840
They called her off the "dacha"
on that day.

396
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:27,600
I see.

397
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,920
Yeah... And in the evening,
a mailman came.

398
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:38,360
Lozgachev exercised your right
to bring in the mail without invitation.

399
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:46,920
And then he found the master
lying on the floor.

400
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,640
Were they all insane or what?

401
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,480
With the guards asleep,
anyone could go through this door,

402
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,480
give him an injection of some shit
and get away

403
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,880
while those parasites
were sound asleep. Cholera!

404
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,440
What is there to say, Kolya?
What is to say?

405
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,800
Lozgachev reports to the commandant
that Stalin is grunting on the floor.

406
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:30,400
The commandant calls
the Minister of Defense.

407
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:35,600
Comrade Ignatiev gets scared
and starts calling Beria.

408
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,480
- But Beria…
- Beria.

409
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,320
- He said not to call a doctor.
- I should have shot this dog.

410
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,720
They came, they looked...

411
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,720
Beria says, "Why are you panicking?
Comrade Stalin is asleep."

412
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,440
Yeah, sure.

413
00:42:58,240 --> 00:43:00,880
He's been lying there
for almost 24 hours.

414
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,080
Without a doctor.
They took him there later.

415
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,560
Vasya was running around and screaming.
"You killed him!"

416
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,480
But who would listen to a drunk guy?

417
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:20,200
That's how it was,
comrade Nikolai Sidorovich.

418
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,840
What’s going on here?

419
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:30,360
Eh... That's my relative.
He came to visit from the village.

420
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,920
I am showing him around.

421
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,600
I didn’t know, comrade watchman,
that former head of security

422
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,960
was your family.

423
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:53,760
Follow me.

424
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,200
Post No. 1.

425
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,600
How did an outsider get
to the highly secure area?

426
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,560
That’s what’s up.

427
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,840
I don’t want to see you here anymore.

428
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,520
No one is longer interested
in the tyrant’s life and death.

429
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:47,920
The tyrant, you say?

430
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:56,400
Then who were those people
who wrote 3 million denunciations?

431
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:01,920
Against each other.

432
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,280
It should be done at the convention!

433
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,760
Resolutions like this should be announced!

434
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,760
This is politics. Politics!

435
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,000
Is something unclear?

436
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,320
All global newspapers will pick it up!
And that's good for us.

437
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:41,120
We took away the tyrant's body,
we liberated the people

438
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,840
from the tyranny. That’s it.

439
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:05,240
Nikolai...

440
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,240
Hello, Kolya. Hello.

441
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:19,200
Shall we sit?

442
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:33,000
I called you several times.
Didn't your wife tell you?

443
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,040
She probably forgot.

444
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:48,520
I…

445
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,240
I said many things about you, Kolya.

446
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,560
Why are you looking at me?

447
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,120
Why are you looking?
People say things under torture.

448
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:10,760
You know that better than I.

449
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,360
I am sorry.

450
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,600
Please forgive me.

451
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,160
God will forgive.

452
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,000
You know...

453
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,840
I’ve met Vita. Yeah…

454
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,360
When I worked at the colony in Asbest.

455
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,520
She’s married, she’s happy, you know…

456
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,640
- She asked to say hello.
- Yeah…

457
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,840
Turns out, she didn’t testify
against any of us.

458
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,000
Goodbye, Volodya. Be well.

459
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,280
- Comrade Major…
- Hey, you!

460
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,760
Nikolai Sidorovich... Is that you?

461
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,400
You were at the service yourself.
You know the regulations.

462
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,040
You can’t go there. You are not allowed.

463
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,800
Do they take my man out?

464
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,080
Hi there, Nikolai!

465
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:35,400
Yeah...

466
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:38,520
Here I go again,

467
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,440
collecting money for the house of God.

468
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,480
Goodbye, namesake.

469
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:49,080
Right?