Stalin’s death shouldn’t be played for laughs | Letters

The Death of Stalin film makes light of an intensely serious moment in history, writes Peter Hitchens Peter Bradshaw (Notebook, 26 October) says the new film The Death of Stalin is not knockabout comedy, but a satire. Oh. What exactly is it satirising? As far as I know, this is the first time a mass-market film has dealt with this event.We may be saturated with serious drama and documentary material on the Nazis and the end of Hitler, but the equivalent evils of the Stalin nightma