Undiscussed is how, after the Nazi invasion began in 1941, Stalin hid out in his dacha for 10 days before addressing the public, or how the execution of virtually all senior military commanders in ...

“At least I can still come here with the kids and go swimming.” Valday is where Joseph Stalin had a secret dacha he probably never used. One story says the paranoid dictator took one look at ...

What happened in 1953 in Stalin’s secret dacha in Kuntsevo? The last five days of the dictator. Bizarre and abstruse. The film presents narratives about the life and death of the scrupulous ...

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife ... But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repre ...