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  • War of the Century Vengeance (Season 1, Episode 4)
  • TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History, War

War of the Century

Vengeance (Season 1, Episode 4)
TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History, War
Victory turns to vengeance as the Soviets drive the occupying Germans out of the Soviet motherland and turn their sights on Berlin. It was a time of terror for ethnic minorities on both sides of the battlefront. When Hitler's "final ...See moreVictory turns to vengeance as the Soviets drive the occupying Germans out of the Soviet motherland and turn their sights on Berlin. It was a time of terror for ethnic minorities on both sides of the battlefront. When Hitler's "final solution" reached its horrific climax in extermination camps, prisoners? life expectancy could be measured in just hours. Stalin exiled entire ethnic nations to Siberia as punishment for the small number of ethnic collaborators in their midst. One of the ethnic groups who suffered the most was the Kalmyks from the steppe south of Stalingrad. Stalin ordered every ethnic Kalmyk to be "relocated" to even remoter regions of the Soviet Union. Families were crammed onto unsanitary transport trains; many didn't survive the journey. Officially, 93,000 Kalmyks, 68,000 Karachai people, 500,000 Chechens, 340,000 Balkars and 180,000 Tartars were deported. See less
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Writer
Laurence Rees (written by)
Producer
Laurence Rees
Cinematographer
Martin Patmore
Editor
Alan Lygo
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Updated Oct 26, 1999
Release date
Oct 26, 1999 (United Kingdom)

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