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★ 9.0•2026•1 Seasons•ANIME

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.

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

Maria Lähteenmäki

Self - Professor of History, University of Eastern Finland

Raija-Liisa Mäkelä

Self - Author

Jurii Shapoval

Self - Professor of History, LMU

Episodes

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1. Utopia

52m

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

Aired: 2/16/2026

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2. Epäluulo

51m

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.