if people are interested in the changes made:

• Vasily Stalin was not a hopeless drunk until after the death of his father.

• The Stalin children were not expelled from the country after the execution of Beria.

• Molotov was described as a hardass, not the laughing grandfather figure we see in the movie. It was Molotov who demanded the release of his wife.

• The person Svetlana Stalin asked to be released [cannot find at the moment] did not die, and was in fact was released later.

In general, many of the characters are changed to make Khrushchev look like a more natural successor than any of the other figures.

Re Vassily - from wikipedia: She noted that he started to drink alcohol at the age of 13, and in drunken episodes would curse and attack her.[9]

Molotov certainly was a hardass - hence the cocktail. But he was also very loyal to Stalin, hence his comedic (and tragic) use in the film.

> Molotov certainly was a hardass - hence the cocktail.

The Molotov cocktail was named ironically after Molotov by Finns.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail

The name "Molotov cocktail" was coined by the Finns during the Winter War, called Molotovin koktaili in Finnish. The name was a pejorative reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who was one of the architects of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed in late August 1939.

The name's origin came from the propaganda Molotov produced during the Winter War, mainly his declaration on Soviet state radio that bombing missions over Finland were actually airborne humanitarian food deliveries for their starving neighbours. As a result, the Finns sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts.[3] When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack and destroy Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with his food parcels".