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Suuri vaino

Suuri vaino

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Synopsis

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.

Episodes

Episode 1

Utopia

Expecting to find a socialist utopia, people immigrate abroad to the Soviet Union. Especially Finns move in hopes of getting a better life.

2026-02-16 · 52 min
Episode 2

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.

2026-02-16 · 51 min
Episode 3

Kauna

Finnish congressman Juho Perälä witnesses first hand how stalinistic terror intensifies in the Soviet Karelia. Ethnic violence starts with denunciations.

2026-02-16 · 51 min
Episode 4

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.

2026-02-16 · 52 min
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Cast

Mikhail GyllingMikhail GyllingSelf - Medical Doctor
Nikolaj IwanowNikolaj IwanowSelf - Professor of History, University of Opole
Aleksi MainioAleksi MainioSelf - Leader of the Project on Stalin's Purges
Kimmo RentolaKimmo RentolaSelf - Professor of Political History, University of Helsinki
Anni ReuterAnni ReuterSelf - Doctor of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki
Meelis SaueaukMeelis SaueaukSelf - Doctor of History, Institute of Estonian Historical Memory
Ina SusiIna SusiSelf - Teacher
Anneli RantaAnneli RantaSelf - Narrator (voice)
Gints ApalsGints ApalsSelf - Head of Department, Latvian Occupation Museum
Jesse HirveläJesse HirveläSelf - Historian, University of Helsinki
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