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Suuri vaino
Overview
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.
Status
Ended
Created By
Toni Viljanmaa
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes
Utopia
Expecting to find a socialist utopia, people immigrate abroad to the Soviet Union. Especially Finns move in hopes of getting a better life.
Epäluulo
A 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.
Kauna
Finnish congressman Juho Perälä witnesses first hand how stalinistic terror intensifies in the Soviet Karelia. Ethnic violence starts with denunciations.
Viha
Germans 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.
Top Cast
Mikhail Gylling
Self - Medical Doctor
Nikolaj Iwanow
Self - Professor of History, University of Opole
Aleksi Mainio
Self - Leader of the Project on Stalin's Purges
Kimmo Rentola
Self - Professor of Political History, University of Helsinki
Anni Reuter
Self - Doctor of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki
Meelis Saueauk
Self - Doctor of History, Institute of Estonian Historical Memory
Ina Susi
Self - Teacher
Anneli Ranta
Self - Narrator (voice)
Gints Apals
Self - Head of Department, Latvian Occupation Museum
Jesse Hirvelä
Self - Historian, University of Helsinki
Kaisu Junkkonen
Self - Early Childhood Educator
Robert Kusnierz
Self - Professor of History, University of Pomerania
