In one scene, Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (Simon Russell Beale) locks a young woman in a cell and later gives her a bunch of flowers upon release. Beria was a notorious sexual predator, sometimes driven around Moscow in search of victims to assault. After Beria had finished with his victims, they were routinely offered a bunch of flowers. To accept was to imply that whatever had happened was consensual. To refuse could lead to arrest, torture, and disappearance.

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