Russian series on Marshall Zhukov, with good English subtitles!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kku8sDX8CLk An unusually intimate, detailed and accurate portrait of both Stalin and Khrushchev. Both are quite human and comprehensible here. The actor playing Stalin could almost be Stalin's twin -- small, pudgy, with a dysfunctional left arm, and a constant look of intense calculation on his face. Portrayals of Stalin, even in Russia, tend to lean to caricatures, one way, or another. He's either a saintly father figure, or, more frequently, a violent psychopath. This portrayal shows a man of intense, calculated intelligence, who reads and manipulates everyone like pawns on a chessboard. And, people respect and fear him for precisely this reason. Khrushchev, is, as usual, portrayed as a charismatic, bumbling, buffoon. But, a very, very charismatic, and very, very bumbling buffoon! As usual, Leonid Brezhnev is scarcely portrayed at all, a faceless bureaucrat who pulls the strings with some skill during his 18 years controlling the USSR. The invisible man. The torture interrogation scenes are realistically portrayed, the confusion and fear of the victims very vivid. Zhukov himself is portrayed as an upright, if somewhat simple soul. Much of the series is concerned with his relationships with his two wives, both of whom he loved. At one point, in discussing Zhukov with his KGB chief, Beria, Stalin compares Beria and Zhukov, noting how much Zhukov loves both his wife, and his mistress, who eventually becomes his second wife. Stalin accuses Beria of being incapable of love, of loving no one, of hating and fearing everyone, even Stalin himself. No wonder Stalin and Beria got along so well! Lavrentiy Beria is really the villain of the series. While Stalin is immensely perceptive and self-critical -- this is the man who coined the phrase "I trust no one, not even myself!" -- Beria is simply portrayed as a violent, vicious, power-hungry psychopath, Stalin's useful but very dangerous attack dog. This is probably the nastiest portrayal of Beria I've ever seen in Russian media, essentially consistent with how he's portrayed in the West, a technically brilliant monster. It's no wonder he barely survived the death of his master, Stalin, and that Khrushchev was able to persuade everyone, including Marshall Zhukov, to turn on Beria and destroy him at the very first opportunity after Stalin's death. Ultimately, in his final years, Zhukov is portrayed as a rather pathetic figure, crying over the illness of his beloved second wife, and dreaming of his glory days, when he thought he would be made the leader of the USSR. However, Josef Stalin had other ideas, and Josef Stalin always got his way, didn't he?