在这部斯大林的阴影纪录片片中,在斯大林死后六十年，纪录片导演Thomas Johnson（曾执导有《抢救切尔诺贝利》）重访俄国，采访古拉格幸存者，以及俄罗斯对于前苏人道灾难受害者的救助和纪念委员会成员，审视斯大林留给新俄罗斯的遗产。
"The Shadow of Stalin" - Sixty years after his death, the cult of Joseph Stalin, one of the most cruel dictators of history, is revived by the Russians who have suffered so much. The director seeks to unravel the causes of this ambivalence. The film tells, thanks to the inventory work accomplished for twenty-five years by the historians and volunteers of the association Memorial, how, relegating terror to the margins of history, its ghosts continue not only to haunt the spirits and power, but to block any process of democratization.
