Series
Suuri vaino
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.
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Seasons & episodes
- 1Utopia16 Feb 2026 · 52mExpecting to find a socialist utopia, people immigrate abroad to the Soviet Union. Especially Finns move in hopes of getting a better life.
- 2Epäluulo16 Feb 2026 · 51mA 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.
- 3Kauna16 Feb 2026 · 51mFinnish congressman Juho Perälä witnesses first hand how stalinistic terror intensifies in the Soviet Karelia. Ethnic violence starts with denunciations.
- 4Viha16 Feb 2026 · 52mGermans 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.
Details
- Created by
- Toni Viljanmaa
- First aired
- 16 Feb 2026
- Last aired
- 16 Feb 2026
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- Finnish
- Episodes
- 4
- Votes
- 1 on TMDB
Cast
- MMikhail GyllingSelf - Medical Doctor
- NNikolaj IwanowSelf - Professor of History, University of Opole
- AAleksi MainioSelf - Leader of the Project on Stalin's Purges
- KKimmo RentolaSelf - Professor of Political History, University of Helsinki
- AAnni ReuterSelf - Doctor of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki
- MMeelis SaueaukSelf - Doctor of History, Institute of Estonian Historical Memory
- IIna SusiSelf - Teacher
- AAnneli RantaSelf - Narrator (voice)
- GGints ApalsSelf - Head of Department, Latvian Occupation Museum
- JJesse HirveläSelf - Historian, University of Helsinki
- KKaisu JunkkonenSelf - Early Childhood Educator
- RRobert KusnierzSelf - Professor of History, University of Pomerania
- MMaria LähteenmäkiSelf - Professor of History, University of Eastern Finland
- RRaija-Liisa MäkeläSelf - Author
