Stalin's horrible binge-drinking parties - Le temps d'une bière

For the paranoid, blood-thirsty mustached dictator, alcohol served both as entertainment and internal repression. In the Politburo (the main soviet decision-making body), Stalin's comrades lived under the daily fear of being shot. However, there is another thing that his collaborators dreaded intensely than being arrested: being invited to a party at one of Stalin's horrible dinner parties.