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★ 9.0/10•2026•Documentary•War & Politics
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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.

Tommi Pietiläinen · Director

Toni Viljanmaa · Writer

StatusEnded
LanguageFI
First Air DateFeb 16, 2026

Episodes

E152m

Utopia

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

Feb 16, 2026

E251m

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.

Feb 16, 2026

E351m

Kauna

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

Feb 16, 2026

E452m

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.

Feb 16, 2026

Actors

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

Maria Lähteenmäki

Self - Professor of History, University of Eastern Finland

Raija-Liisa Mäkelä

Self - Author

Jurii Shapoval

Self - Professor of History, LMU

Igor Frei

Self - Head Director, Ukrainian Theater of Finland

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