Suuri vaino (2026)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 2026-02-16
Last Air Date: 2026-02-16
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 4
Created By: Toni Viljanmaa
Top Cast
- Mikhail Gylling as Self - Medical Doctor
- Nikolaj Iwanow as Self - Professor of History, University of Opole
- Aleksi Mainio as Self - Leader of the Project on Stalin's Purges
- Kimmo Rentola as Self - Professor of Political History, University of Helsinki
- Anni Reuter as Self - Doctor of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki
- Meelis Saueauk as Self - Doctor of History, Institute of Estonian Historical Memory
- Ina Susi as Self - Teacher
- Anneli Ranta as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Gints Apals as Self - Head of Department, Latvian Occupation Museum
- Jesse Hirvelä as Self - Historian, University of Helsinki
Seasons
Season 1 (2026)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Utopia
Expecting to find a socialist utopia, people immigrate abroad to the Soviet Union. Especially Finns move in hopes of getting a better life.
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Ep. 2: 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.
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Ep. 3: Kauna
Finnish congressman Juho Perälä witnesses first hand how stalinistic terror intensifies in the Soviet Karelia. Ethnic violence starts with denunciations.
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Ep. 4: 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.
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