The Embezzlers watch online HD

I watched this on Amazon Prime where it is listed as "Red Mafia." I have not watched all the episodes yet but so far it is all about corruption and the fight against it in the Soviet period, which provides a useful background to corruption in today's Russia. Very well done with "reenactments" featuring actors playing the key roles interspersed with archival footage of the actual figures. These reenactments are in Russian with English subtitles; the background in between the reenacted 'vignettes" are in English. There are also some brief interviews with surviving Soviet officials.

All fascinating stuff for those of us who grew up in the Cold War era and should be very interesting for anyone interested in the Soviet period and learning about the formation of today's Russian state. No mention of Putin (at least not yet) but he was a young protégé of Yuri Andropov who features prominently.