:17:02
Stalin killed millions
of his own people,
:17:05
but he killed
without grace.
:17:08
He ruled by fear.
:17:10
l ruled by passion,
:17:13
and ecstasy!
:17:16
Stalin had
no sense of form.
:17:21
Yes, he got
people's attention,
:17:24
but with force
:17:26
and random brutality.
:17:29
He's a barbarian of genius.
:17:32
So what!
:17:36
He offered nothing
:17:38
to hypnotize
or transform his people.
:17:42
Where is the drama
in slaughtering
:17:44
well-to-do farmers?
:17:51
Stalin misunderstood
:17:55
the principals of opera.
:18:03
Disciplined spontaneity.
:18:06
We stove for
the most extreme
:18:09
intensification
of possibilities.
:18:11
We elevated passion
above reason.
:18:14
We rescued
the German people
:18:17
from their drab,
predictable lives.
:18:20
We gave them a sense
of heroic belonging,
:18:24
a vision of victorious triumph
:18:28
over evil.
:18:31
A man will
do anything,
:18:34
as long as you take him
step by step.
:18:39
Break a shop window.
:18:42
Rough up a labor leader.
:18:45
Turn a neighborhood
into a ghetto.
:18:48
Shoot a man.
:18:51
Eliminate. Erase.
:18:56
lf you asked
a civilized people
:18:58
to take this last step first...