Suuri vaino
Suuri vaino

Suuri vaino (2026)

9.0 (1 votes)
1 Season
February 16, 2026
FI
Documentary War & Politics

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.

Creator

Aki Forsman

Episodes

Episodes

Utopia
E1

Utopia

Feb 16, 2026
52 min

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

Epäluulo
E2

Epäluulo

Feb 16, 2026
51 min

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.

Kauna
E3

Kauna

Feb 16, 2026
51 min

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

Viha
E4

Viha

Feb 16, 2026
52 min

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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Original Title

Suuri vaino

Status

Ended

Seasons

1

Episodes

4

Production

YLE