Talk:Rasputin vs Stalin/@comment-118.136.197.161-20130501075256/@comment-6749469-20131025215537

Actually, this is why the beats are the way they are, according to TV Tropes:

The beats in the Season 2 Finale start of grim, then happy, then triumphant. Why? The beats reflect Russia's history. Rasputin's and Stalin's are dark because in their times, Russia wasn't a great place to live in. Rasputin was manipulating the king and millions were starving. Then under Stalin's time, millions of people were dying in camps or getting shot, Poles were being massacred and the Germans were attacking Russia. In Lenin's time, the people were starving and killing off the Tsars and starting a revolution. However, by Gorbachev's turn, where the beat gets very cheerful, Russia was slowly opening its arms to the West and things were improving. When the wall was torn down, Russia was happy for the first time in years. And if you're wondering why Putin's beat is triumphant and uplifting, it's because by the time he was in power, Russia was truly happy and no one was starving anymore.