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The Soviet Story
The Soviet Story

The Soviet Story

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“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...

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Budget

$--

Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

86 mins

Rating

7.2/10

Release Date

09 April 2008

Country

Latvia

Cast

Jon Strickland

Jon Strickland

Narrator

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage)

Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Self (archive footage)

Hermann Göring

Hermann Göring

Self (archive footage)

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

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