In analyzing Kotov, one can understand why Stalin would consider him a threat to his desire to be dictator of Russia. The Colonel was a strong and powerful man, and very charismatic. He rose from meager rural beginnings to be transformed by Socialism into the man Stalin wanted as men of Russia-a good soldier who loves his people, his revolution, and his Motherland. Respected and glorified by all, nothing seems to be able to get in his way as demonstrated in the opening scenes of the movies as he orders a battalion of tanks and airplanes to withdraw their maneuve

The shocking reality of the purges themselves and the metaphor of the burning sun are totally unprecedented in world history. These purges wiped out the vast majority of the top echelons of the Soviet regime: most of the top commanders of the Red Army, the majority of the leaders of the Bolshevik Party during its heroic period of struggle for power, the leading engineers, designers and scientists, outstanding writers, artists, film and theatre directors, and so on. The truth, they soon discover, is that they both live in a world where there can only be a choice between serving the system and thus becoming its accomplice or to be exploited by it. The chilling final scenes emphasize the theme on just how far-reaching the dictator's grasp was, and how insecure even the most loyal patriots were.

rs in a rural area. The film therefore illustrates the age-old injustices inherent in absolute power and how easily past loyalties is betrayed, or in other words, how he (and later Mitia) were burnt by the sun. Kotov, does n

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