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The Cold Summer of 1953

Холодное лето пятьдесят третьего

1988 · Film

Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin

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In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.

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  1. Positivemyth_drannonOct 15, 2025

    What did you expect. 2000 mass murderers and rapists were released from Israeli prisons back to Gaza. Do you think they are going to finish their physics Phd? Hamas promised to kill all men of the opposing clan and "blow up" their women's vaginas. Reminds me of USSR, when Stalin died in 1953. They released from Gulags not the political prisoners but all the criminals, murderers, thieves... What followed that was an unprecedented wave of crime. There is a good movie about it, it's called "The cold summer of 1953" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cold_Summer_of_1953