Michael Palin credited as playing...
Vyacheslav Molotov
- Vyacheslav Molotov: I've always been loyal to Stalin, always. This arrests were authorized by Stalin but Stalin was also loyal to the collective leadership and that is true loyalty. However, he also had an iron will, undeviating, strong, could we not do the same and stick to what we believed in? No. It is stronger still to forge our own beliefs within the beliefs of the collective leadership, which I have now... done.
- [Zhukov punches Beria]
- Georgy Zhukov: Want a job done properly, you call the army. Take his belt off. It's hard to run away with your pants falling down.
- Nikita Khrushchev: [to Malenkov] If you want to talk to General Zhukov, now's your opportunity.
- Georgy Zhukov: Spit it out, Georgy. Staging a coup here.
- Georgy Malenkov: ...He's got a knife by his ankle.
- Lavrenti Beria: You're a disgrace!
- Lazar Kaganovich: Give his head a good kicking. Make you feel better.
- Vyacheslav Molotov: All in good time.
- Lavrenti Beria: Oh, I'm gonna enjoy peeling the skin from your self-satisfied face.
- Georgy Zhukov: [holds up the little knife and scoffs] Not with that, you won't.
- Vyacheslav Molotov: [talking over his dog to avoid preying ears] But you got to act fast comrade.
- Vyacheslav Molotov: Act fast or be dead.
- Vyacheslav Molotov: [fussing over the dog] Yes, Uncle Nicky is gonna be dead if he doesn't get a move on, isn't he?
- Vyacheslav Molotov: Yes, he is!
- Vyacheslav Molotov: Good night, Comrades. Long live the Communist Party of Lenin-Stalin. Long live - John Wayne and John Ford!