Suuri vaino
Overview:
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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