The film portrays the political career and personal life of the former leader of the Soviet Union, Georgian-born Joseph Dzhugashvili, who later adopted the name Joseph Stalin, demonstrating his rule and how he was able to bring the Soviet Union to a place of great power on the world stage, but at a consequence: in this case, the destruction of his family as well as the mass murder of millions of his own Russian Revolutionary partners, and ultimately his acts of corruption in the Communist Party. The focus is on the behavior of Stalin and the after effects. The story is narrated by Stalin's daughter Svetlana, who defected to the United States in 1967. (fonte: Wikipedia)

Vita, opere, crimini e morte del più grande dittatore Sovietico. Gran parte del film è ovviamente dedicata alla seconda guerra mondiale e alla lotta contro il nazifascismo.