Word: kopalski
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...evening gown, crying "Comrades!" to the "dear French people" in a swanky Paris night club: and a starry-eyed Bolshevik girl back in Moscow burying her face in a satin slip, and begging it for her honeymoon. Again, clever direction has saved the three Russian wheelhorses, Buljanoff, Iranoff, and Kopalski, from becoming a cheap imitation of the Three Stooges, and has made them uproarious symbols of a comfort-loving Russian bourgeoisie squirming under cold Soviet efficiency, throwing their hotel room carpet out of the window and complaining to the management because it doesn't fly. But it's Greta Garbo...
During one of those shortages of cash that seem to be chronic in the planned economy, Moscow sends Comrades Bul-janoff, Iranoff and Kopalski to Paris to sell confiscated jewels. Though at first they ask, "What would Comrade Lenin say?" about stopping at a swank hotel, the answer soon comes clear: "Comrade Lenin would say, 'The prestige of the workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful...
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