what’s fascinating is that much of what feels like an exaggeration regarding these characters is actually historically accurate. Khrushchev while being treacherous backstabber actually had a jokester act as it was depicted in the movie

can’t compare really - absolutely different frameworks

the tsarist prison system was nowhere near as elaborate and infrastructurally sophisticated as GULAG and it wasn’t integrated into the economy so the comparison is dubious at best.

Trotsky was equally as bad as Stalin actually. He was very good at reframing it after his exile but that doesn’t mean he isn’t neck deep in blood as well.

while overly simplified - the statement is technically correct - Trotsky was a big proponent of state terror campaigns and disproportional use of force to quell civil unrest. Stalin took this framework and developed it further into fully functional system. Trotsky also started the camp system that evolved into GULAG. He was also very dismissive about comrade Coba and this arrogance eventually did him in and led to his exile and later assassination.

aside from compressed timeline - it actually does a good job representing the major players and their core traits and interactions. Lots of straightforward historical dramas about that period took a lot more artistic license in that regard. Like there’s an old movie called The Inner Circle which is basically about Stalin’s movie club - and it paints the same people in borderline caricature simplistic tones despite the movie technically being a serious drama.

AKA the reason why web got progressive worse over the years

just like Google but at way smaller scale

It’s just Chrome if Chrome wasn’t made ass backwards basically.

Vivaldi is probably the best of the chromium bunch. Firefox still takes the top because it has forks for all sorts of things and it is kinda fun to try out different ones every now and then just to see how folks can tweak it.