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Suuri vaino

9.0/ 102026Episode runtime

DocumentaryWar & Politics

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.

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The cast

Faces behind the story

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)