In 1938, Stalin has his military leadership purged, and has thousands of his comrades killed or locked up. The reasons as to why he did it are still open for debate.

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Hosted by: Indy Neidell
Written by: Joram Appel
Directed by: Spartacus Olsson and Astrid Deinhard
Executive Producers: Bodo Rittenauer, Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Creative Producer: Joram Appel
Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns
Research by: Joram Appel
Edited by: Daniel Weiss
Sound design: Marek Kamiński

Colorizations by:
- Daniel Weiss

Sources:
From the Noun Project:
- Saluting Veteran by Eric Lamar Pearine
- Russian_soldier_1553396 (Edited) by Wonmo Kang
- Prison by FORMGUT
- Law_585610 by Delwar Hossain
Photos from Color by Klimbim

Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
- Split Decision - Rannar Sillard
- Last Point of Safe Return - Fabien Tell
- Watchman - Yi Nantiro
- Disciples of Sun Tzu - Christian Andersen
- The Inspector 4 - Johannes Bornlöf
- Not Safe Yet - Gunnar Johnsen
- Death And Glory 1 - Johannes Bornlöf
- Dark Beginning - Johan Hynynen
- First Responders - Skrya
- The Charleston 3 - Håkan Eriksson


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