I found it very difficult to suspend disbelief long enough to buy Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev.

Yes, it is a great movie, plus, I could dream...

...in many ways he was a great man given the fact he lived a terrible system.

It was not an easy thing to take down the Stalin cult.

In other ways, he risked the world, but in the end he handled that boy Kennedy pretty well after testing him. He had the courage, and let's be clear, it was courage, to back down. It cost him his career, but what was notable was that he was allowed to live afterwards.

I actually believe that the Cuban Missile Crisis (for which I largely hold Kennedy, not Khrushchev, responsible) set the world on a path to an unsettled peace, but peace all the same. There were no other world wars, only a cold war, which happily was just that, cold.

It is the essence of historical wit, albeit very black humor.

As history, it's inaccurate in the details; Beria did not die quite that way; but as capturing the zeitgeist, it is magnificent.

I've probably watched it four or five times, as in a way it's uplifting.

Steve Buscemi steals the show.

I kept laughing throughout and decided either I was twisted or they intended it that way, so I looked up.
Sure enough they planned it.

There are some true gem moments! Plus, I can't help but think about some day the criminal will die.
I am of an age that I will be alive when it happens. That will be a moment! We need a Mel Brooks style movie when that happens.

and intrigued by the Russian partisanship portrayed in the movie. I would recommend this movie to others too.

Very funny!