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Suuri vaino

  • 2026
  • Ended
  • Documentary · War & Politics
  • 1 season
  • 9.0/10

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.

Latest: Season 1 · 2026

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  1. E1. Utopia

    Feb 16, 2026 · 52m

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

  2. E2. Epäluulo

    Feb 16, 2026 · 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.

  3. E3. Kauna

    Feb 16, 2026 · 51m

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

  4. E4. Viha

    Feb 16, 2026 · 52m

    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.