Who was the youngest modern age commissioned officer?

Small Team Bacsi said:
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The Death of Stalin - Wikipedia

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i have watched this movie a few times

it’s fun and well done and the MG plays a not insignificant role. It may or may not be actual history?

Well worth the watch
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Absolutely! I especially liked the fact that they didn't have the actors feigning a phony Russian accent.

Obviously, no one can really know what was discussed among the family members and the Politburo. But I think it is accurate in its portrayal of the Funereal Committee being made up of very ordinary and unexceptional men. A possible exception would be Marshall Zhukov, kind of a Soviet Eisenhower.

Thanks for the reminder.
 
cb7893 said:
Absolutely! I especially liked the fact that they didn't have the actors feigning a phony Russian accent.

Obviously, no one can really know what was discussed among the family members and the Politburo. But I think it is accurate in its portrayal of the Funereal Committee being made up of very ordinary and unexceptional men. A possible exception would be Marshall Zhukov, kind of a Soviet Eisenhower.

Thanks for the reminder.
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What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in The Death of Stalin

Here’s what’s embellished and what’s so absurd it can only be true in Armando Iannucci’s Soviet Union satire.
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As movies go I’d say they pretty much nailed the history.

watching the movie the night before with Stalin , the doctors plot, the note, the crash with the hockey team, etc etc

For a fun movie they seemed to have stuck very close to the actual history which is really what makes it so much fun. If it were total fiction it would not be as good.

Now you have given me something to do today , a rewatch :)
 
Small Team Bacsi said:
As movies go I’d say they pretty much nailed the history.
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That is a great link.

I don't know how the writers/director would have done it, but some historical context would have added a little more dimensio=sdfjlto the characters.

In the 30's, Stalin completely decapitated the Party, the government and the Military. Other than Zhukov, these were unremarkable men, albeit survivors, for whom the road to advancement was greased by the decapitation of the Party, Government and Military by Stalin in the 1930's. There was little room for infighting so long Stalin was alive.
 
Major Philip B Larimore, Jr, may have been the youngest ever graduate of the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School (OCS). He graduated in OCS Class 128-42 on 17 December 1942 at 17 years 347 days of age. He then may have been the youngest commissioned U.S. Army officer in WWII, having to wait until his 18th birthday to be commissioned as a 2nd LT on on Jan 25, 1943 at 18yrs and 21 days. I've not been able to locate any younger OCS graduates or commissioned officers.
 
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