Season 1 (2026)

Episodes: 4

Star Cast: Mikhail Gylling , Nikolaj Iwanow , Aleksi Mainio , Kimmo Rentola ,

Episodes List

Ep.1 Utopia

Air Date: 2026-02-16

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

Ep.2 Epäluulo

Air Date: 2026-02-16

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.

Ep.3 Kauna

Air Date: 2026-02-16

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

Ep.4 Viha

Air Date: 2026-02-16

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.

Star Cast

Mikhail Gylling

Self - Medical Doctor

Nikolaj Iwanow

Self - Professor of History, University of Opole

Aleksi Mainio

Self - Leader of the Project on Stalin's Purges

Kimmo Rentola

Self - Professor of Political History, University of Helsinki

Anni Reuter

Self - Doctor of Political Sciences, University of Helsinki

Meelis Saueauk

Self - Doctor of History, Institute of Estonian Historical Memory

Ina Susi

Self - Teacher

Anneli Ranta

Self - Narrator (voice)

Gints Apals

Self - Head of Department, Latvian Occupation Museum

Jesse Hirvelä

Self - Historian, University of Helsinki

Kaisu Junkkonen

Self - Early Childhood Educator

Robert Kusnierz

Self - Professor of History, University of Pomerania

Maria Lähteenmäki

Self - Professor of History, University of Eastern Finland

Raija-Liisa Mäkelä

Self - Author

Jurii Shapoval

Self - Professor of History, LMU

Igor Frei

Self - Head Director, Ukrainian Theater of Finland

Eero Haapanen

Self - Historian

Ira Jänis-Isokangas

Self - Docent of History, University of Helsinki