Svetlana Stalina quotes from The Death of Stalin (2017)

View Quote My father's going to die. I'm going to have you to look after me. I mean, I may as well just shoot myself like Mother.

View Quote [Svetlana refuses to accept the doctors' diagnosis of her father]
Svetlana Stalina: [points to the youngest doctor] How old are you?
Doctor: Twenty... nine?
Svetlana Stalina: That's a lie! [points to Lukomsky] How old are you?
Lukomsky: Um...
Svetlana Stalina: [to a third, even older doctor with a wild beard and hair] You look dead!

View Quote Svetlana Stalina: Vasily, remember what Papa said!
Vasily Stalin: Yes, but they have a machine, and they're filling his brain with American lies!
Svetlana Stalina: [whispering] "Wade gently through the river because there are snakes and crocodiles."

View Quote Nikita Khrushchev: It's okay, Vasily, everything's gonna be fine.
Svetlana Stalina: It's not exactly fine, is it? It's not fine.
Nikita Khrushchev: No... well, no, not exactly fine.
Svetlana Stalina: My father's lying there with his head open.
Nikita Khrushchev: Yes, your father's dead, your brother's shooting a gun, it's not fine, you're right.

View Quote Lavrentiy Beria: You know what I'm doing? I'm offering you and that bloated soak my protection.
Svetlana Stalina: We are not children!
[Tarasov emerges from Vasily's room, looking grim.]
Vasily Stalin: [from inside] You are a real listener, thank you...!
Svetlana Stalina: ...I am not a child.

View Quote Svetlana Stalina: That's how you deal with a problem, isn't it?
Nikita Khrushchev: I'm sorry you had to be here.
Svetlana Stalina: I hope you didn't tell Beria that he was going to be safe from harm.
Nikita Khrushchev: You will be safe, okay? Vasily, too. If you listen to me.
Svetlana Stalina: Why wouldn't we be safe?
Nikita Khrushchev: What are you talking about? Just be quiet now.
Svetlana Stalina: I refuse to be quiet every time...
Nikita Khrushchev: Just shut up! Vasily stays here in Russia where we can take care of him. Read it.
Svetlana Stalina: Vienna? If I stayed, I could contain Vasily.
Nikita Khrushchev: No. No. No, you go to Vienna. He stays. We can't have a drunken madman spreading conspiracy theories all over the world.
Svetlana Stalina: He's not... He's not bad.
Nikita Khrushchev: Listen to me.
Svetlana Stalina: He's just ill.
Nikita Khrushchev: No. No. You understand what's going on? This is how people get killed, when their stories don't fit. Safe travels.
Svetlana Stalina: I never thought it would be you.
[Khrushchev impatiently motions her into a waiting car, and she is driven away.]
Nikita Khrushchev: Now we can turn the corner.
Lazar Kaganovich: Yeah. Put all the bloodshed behind us.
Nikita Khrushchev: I'm worried about Malenkov, though. Can we trust him?
Lazar Kaganovich: Can you ever trust a weak man?