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00:02:52 VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY
00:04:01 NORMAN D AVIES historian,
00:05:32 NIKOLAY MELNIK survivor of the 1932/33
00:05:37 Salted cabbages were taken
00:05:46 All edible goods were taken away.
00:05:50 Everything!
00:06:01 VOLODIMIR SERGIYCHUK historian, University
00:06:06 peasants were also forbidden
00:06:10 To buy, exchange or earn.
00:06:38 BORISS SOKOLOV historian They were dying.
00:06:43 Special guard-squads prevented these
00:06:48 boarding the trains.
00:06:52 leading to Kharkov, Kiev...
00:07:42 They entered a house and asked:
00:07:45 There was only a half-dead
00:07:50 They said:
00:07:54 "Why come after her tomorrow?"
00:07:58 She begged them: "Don't take me.
00:08:07 MARIA ZAGUTS survivor of the
00:08:14 They were all dumped into the grave.
00:08:36 This is a sacred place for me.
00:08:38 Because it is the resting
00:08:44 including my close relatives,
00:11:26 PIERRE RIGOULOT historian,
00:11:52 We must create a new man.
00:11:56 And a new life form
00:12:21 FRANÇOISE THOM professor
00:14:16 GEORGE WATSON literary
00:19:01 VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY
00:20:03 FRANÇOISE THOM professor
00:20:33 You must all know half
00:20:36 who are of no use in this world.
00:20:39 Who are more trouble
00:20:41 Just put them there and say:
00:20:44 to justify your existence?"
00:20:48 "If you can't justify your existence,
00:20:53 if you are not producing as much as
00:20:58 then clearly we cannot use our society
00:21:07 Because your life does not benefit us
00:21:09 and it can't be of very
00:23:26 Let's go and denounce them!
00:23:31 Then we can denounce even more
00:23:34 Don't be afraid to do it.
00:23:57 ALEXANDER GURYANOV "Memorial" society, Moscow In the 1930s
00:24:04 Every administrative region
00:24:10 where corpses were to be buried.
00:24:26 A person was taken down
00:24:29 There was the final ID check.
00:24:34 The victim had to identify himself.
00:24:37 Then he was led to that room.
00:24:40 When he entered, he was shot.
00:24:48 NIC OLAS WERTH co-author
00:27:35 VLADIMIR KARPOV former Soviet Colonel
00:27:40 He was allowed
00:27:44 He asked:
00:28:01 MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Soviet president Stalin
00:28:06 which he signed in packages.
00:28:08 Together with Molotov,
00:28:12 They were the five most active.
00:28:15 change "10 years" to "execution".
00:29:07 NATALIA LEBEDEVA historian As a result, in
00:29:10 NATALIA LEBEDEVA historian As a result, in
00:29:12 11 million!
00:29:16 Can you imagine
00:29:19 the scale of repression
00:30:54 VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY
00:32:26 SERGEY SLUCH historian According
00:32:35 the decision of the Soviet
00:32:42 was a clear act of aggression.
00:33:11 Red Army in 1939
00:33:42 NORMAN D AVIES historian,
00:34:33 Initially, Ribentropp's proposal
00:34:39 However strange it may seem,
00:34:43 the initiator of this
00:34:54 But we denied it, because
00:34:59 the Communist party
00:35:05 So, we denied it up to the last day!
00:35:23 ARI VATAN EN Member of
00:38:29 When Berlin made the decision
00:38:36 German Admiral Raeder
00:38:43 sent a letter to the Commander
00:38:49 expressing deep gratitude for services
00:41:20 PIERRE RIGOULOT historian,
00:48:01 VIKTOR SUVOROV former Soviet Secret Agent
00:48:07 to learn how to build
00:49:02 It is in German...
00:49:05 Beria's signature...
00:49:13 Translation from the German:
00:49:17 Reichsführer SS, Chief of
00:49:20 Berlin, Nov. 3, 1938.
00:49:22 With this warrant, my representative
00:49:24 Standartenführer SS Mueller is given
00:49:27 in Moscow on coordinated activities
00:49:31 the Security Main Office of Germany,
00:49:35 related to strengthening the peace
00:49:37 and security between our countries.
00:49:43 Gruppenführer SS Heydrich.
00:49:51 Attach to the main document.
00:51:11 A secret agreement was signed
00:51:20 About collaboration.
00:51:23 They accused me of lying,
00:51:29 We could not have signed
00:51:35 NATALIA LEBEDEVA historian This contradiction is
00:51:43 was criminal, exception is
00:51:50 If a regime is criminal, then
00:51:54 including foreign affairs.
00:51:57 This should be accepted once and for all!
00:52:33 The NKVD will propose to
00:52:36 a program
00:52:38 to reduce the participation
00:52:41 and to prohibit Jews
00:52:45 from the areas of culture
00:52:49 Chief of GUGB of the Commissariat
00:52:53 Beria.
00:52:54 Representative of the Chief of the
00:52:59 Mueller.
00:53:21 This was a real war.
00:53:24 A war against Jewish Fascism
00:53:53 BORISS SOKOLOV historian... because
00:53:59 for signing any agreement
00:54:13 NORMAN D AVIES historian,
00:54:48 Stalin's police, the GPU has fallen
00:57:21 VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY
00:57:57 Politburo CK VKPb
00:58:01 to shoot all prisoners of war
01:01:39 Major Soprunenko who was
01:01:43 VIKTOR SUVOROV former Soviet Secret Agent
01:01:51 But Serov,
01:01:56 for the shooting of Polish officers,
01:01:59 the highest State decoration.
01:03:22 I swear to obey the orders
01:03:26 of the Commander-in-Chief,
01:03:44 But if among us there will
01:03:49 we ourselves will deal
01:05:19 EMMA KORPA GULAG survivor... and then
01:05:30 When my son was dragged,
01:05:41 Children were not
01:05:47 so they were buried in
01:05:54 And when another child died,
01:06:05 Then I got a chance to visit my son's
01:07:38 CHRISTOPHER BEAZLEY historian,
01:07:56 INESE VAIDERE Member of the
01:10:25 RITA PAPINA survivor of the Soviet terror...
01:10:35 We collected it in a glass jar.
01:10:50 It is hard to speak about it.
01:10:54 It is as if a scar was torn
01:12:47 JANIS DZINTARS
01:13:37 VLADIMIR PUTIN former KGB
01:13:41 that the collapse of the Soviet Union
01:13:43 was the greatest geopolitical
01:13:51 Nobody wants to admit
01:13:54 that one's ancestors
01:14:02 ANDRÉ BRIE Member of the
01:14:58 WOJCIECH ROS ZKOWSKI Member of
01:15:03 There is this feeling of
01:15:06 which was in Germany after WW1,
01:15:10 and we had it after the collapse
01:15:12 It is fertile soil for
01:15:18 This is exactly what
01:15:28 Moscow, November 4.
01:15:35 Since Putin came to power,
01:15:39 there has been
01:15:42 a massive xenophobic
01:15:49 And people have begun to feel
01:15:54 to people of other languages,
01:16:03 The Russian mass media is working
01:16:07 because it is in the hands
01:16:52 Pick it up.
01:16:59 Do you speak Russian?
01:17:11 I am a deputy in the State Duma,
01:17:14 Nikolay Kuryanovich. I am a member
01:17:18 I would like to greet
01:17:23 Glory to Russia!
01:17:39 We were arrested by
01:17:45 Glory to Russia!
01:18:58 RADKO MLADIC war criminal,
01:19:26 Glory to Russia!
01:19:38 Katyn.
01:19:44 Lviv.
01:19:49 Vinnica.
01:19:55 Tartu.
01:20:38 GIRTS V. KRISTOVSKIS Member of
01:20:53 MICHAEL GAHLER Member of the