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Play S1 E1The Great Purge orchastrated in the Soviet Union during 1937-38 cost almost 700 000 lives. Especially ethnic minorities were targeted. Four-part documentary tells the story of what happened to the people living the Soviet Union, and how the terror was built in the red dictatorship.
Cast: Mikhail Gylling, Nikolaj Iwanow, Aleksi Mainio
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Season 1
4 episodes
- 1. UtopiaExpecting to find a socialist utopia, people immigrate abroad to the Soviet Union. Especially Finns move in hopes of getting a better life.CC52minFeb 16, 2026
- 2. EpäluuloA Finnish detective, who has been detained in the Solovetskyi prison camp, faces the first steps that the Great Purge takes. The hunt for so-called gulags, property owning farmers, starts, and impacts especially Ukraine.CC51minFeb 16, 2026
- 3. KaunaFinnish congressman Juho Perälä witnesses first hand how stalinistic terror intensifies in the Soviet Karelia. Ethnic violence starts with denunciations.CC51minFeb 16, 2026
- 4. VihaGermans and Polish are sentenced to camps or to death, starting the purge of ethnic minority groups. When Stalin's persecutions are at their height, operations follow seemlessly each other.CC52minFeb 16, 2026
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The Great Purge orchastrated in the Soviet Union during 1937-38 cost almost 700 000 lives. Especially ethnic minorities were targeted. Four-part documentary tells the story of what happened to the people living the Soviet Union, and how the terror was built in the red dictatorship.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Tommi Pietiläinen
- Created by
- Toni Viljanmaa
- Studio
- YLE
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