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The Soviet Story

  • 2008
  • K-18
  • 1h 26m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
3.4K
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The Soviet Story (2008)
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The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.

  • Director
    • Edvins Snore
  • Writer
    • Edvins Snore
  • Stars
    • Jon Strickland
    • Vladimir Bukovsky
    • Vladimir Lenin
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    3.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Edvins Snore
    • Writer
      • Edvins Snore
    • Stars
      • Jon Strickland
      • Vladimir Bukovsky
      • Vladimir Lenin
    • 30User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Jon Strickland
    • narrator in English version
    • (voice)
    Vladimir Bukovsky
    • Self - Russian dissident
    Vladimir Lenin
    Vladimir Lenin
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (as V.I. Lenin)
    Norman Davies
    • Self - historian, University of Cambridge
    Nikolay Melnik
    • Self - survivor of Ukrainian Famine 1932-33
    Volodimir Sergiychuk
    • Self - historian, National University of Kyiv
    Boris Sokolov
    • Self - historian
    Pierre Rigoulot
    • Self - historian, Institut d'histoire sociale, Paris
    Françoise Thom
    • Self - historian, Université Paris-Sorbonne
    Alfred Rosenberg
    Alfred Rosenberg
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    George Watson
    • Self - literary historian, University of Cambridge
    Joseph Goebbels
    Joseph Goebbels
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Hermann Göring
    Hermann Göring
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Adolf Eichmann
    Adolf Eichmann
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Aleksandr Guryanov
    • Self - Memorial society, Moscow
    Nicolas Werth
    • Self - co-author of 'The Black Book of Communism'
    • Director
      • Edvins Snore
    • Writer
      • Edvins Snore
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    10/10
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    The movie is excellent. It is well known that winners are writing the history- so the truth of soviet mass murders and genocide is still not truly known for the world. The movie is well-structured and compares two parallel regimes, so opposite but at the same time so similar. People from the countries that were occupied by red plague, know these stories from they parents and grandparents. it is rough to realize for a western world- but the soviet Russia was in no case better than Nazi Germany. For Baltic States people for example, actually it was in number of times worse, the real "holocaust" was created by red army. I have spoken with a lot of people who were in WW2 (for example my grandpa and grandma and et.) and all of them are describing Germans as "at least culture nation" but red soldiers as "dirty brutal people with no honor and compassion". Number of killed persons was several times bigger by Stalin than by Hitler. So who was the worst dictator? That is the question that this movie adduces and it is good, there are so much to bring to daylight and rewrite the history.
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    • Jan 12, 2014

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    • Release date
      • April 9, 2008 (Belgium)
    • Country of origin
      • Latvia
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Kertomus Neuvostoliitosta
    • Filming locations
      • Berlin, Germany
    • Production company
      • Labvakar
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    • Budget
      • €170,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 26 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White

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