Suuri vaino (2026)
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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Episodes
- 1 1. Utopia2026-02-16 · 52mExpecting to find a socialist utopia, people immigrate abroad to the Soviet Union. Especially Finns move in hopes of getting a better life.
- 2 2. Epäluulo2026-02-16 · 51mA 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,
- 3 3. Kauna2026-02-16 · 51mFinnish congressman Juho Perälä witnesses first hand how stalinistic terror intensifies in the Soviet Karelia. Ethnic violence starts with denunciations.
- 4 4. Viha2026-02-16 · 52mGermans 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 ea
Cast
Mikhail GyllingSelf - Medical Doctor
Nikolaj IwanowSelf - Professor of History, University of Opole
Aleksi MainioSelf - Leader of the Project on Stalin's Purges
Kimmo RentolaSelf - Professor of Political History, University of Helsinki
Anni ReuterSelf - Doctor of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki
Meelis SaueaukSelf - Doctor of History, Institute of Estonian Historical Memory
Ina SusiSelf - Teacher
Anneli RantaSelf - Narrator (voice)
Gints ApalsSelf - Head of Department, Latvian Occupation Museum
Jesse HirveläSelf - Historian, University of Helsinki
Kaisu JunkkonenSelf - Early Childhood Educator
Robert KusnierzSelf - Professor of History, University of Pomerania
Maria LähteenmäkiSelf - Professor of History, University of Eastern Finland
Raija-Liisa MäkeläSelf - Author
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