The film The Death of Stalin profoundly encodes in humour the poetics of the tragedy that is Stalin’s evil, writes Arthur Gibson . David Davis’s letter about the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was ‘risible historical revisionism’, says Mark Boyle . In other words, Stalin is given more than a taste of his own disregard for truth. This film comedy is not only deadly serious – it profoundly encodes in humour the poetics of the tragedy that is Stalin’s evil. Andrew ConnellCardiff• David Davis has a rather rose-tinted view of the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact.

Source: The Guardian October 18, 2017 18:00 UTC