Stalin In Color

March 9th 1953 5 million people attend Stalins funeral A revolutionary lacking in both charisma and stature Stalin came to power almost by chance and his 30year reign saw him become the most Machiavellian and bloodthirsty of dictators The man who insisted on being called The Father of the People massacred his own countrymen and was responsible for the death of some 20 million people Soon forgetting his former ideological stance he mercilessly crushed anyone who opposed him in both word and deed His camps for reform through hard labor known as gulags turned 18 million Russians into slaves He not only murdered his opponents but his best friends too and even sometimes members of his own family His cruelty knew no bounds Through colorized archive material rich in previously unseen footage and many accounts from the period including some from Stalin himself this documentary tells the story of a man who turned a dream into a nightmare