Stalin and The Betrayal of Leningrad

BBC - Stalin and The Betrayal of Leningrad (2002-TVRip-d0x).avi



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Runtime......: 00:48:17 (72,429 fr)

Genre........: Documentary

Languages....: English, Russian, German

Translations.: English subtitles

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BBC - Stalin and The Betrayal of Leningrad



On the night of October 1, 1950, five high-ranking Soviet Communist

Party officials who led the city of Leningrad through its tragic

wartime siege, were marched out into the cold night and executed.



The death of the leaders under Stalin's direct orders, was part of a

witchhunt that started three years after the war ended and became

known as the "Leningrad Affair".



Based on a series of bizarre allegations, Stalin executed not only

the city's senior party leaders but purged the whole city from the

top down. More than 2000 Leningraders were arrested and fantastic

efforts were made to conceal historic records of events in Leningrad

during the siege.



Stalin And The Betrayal of Leningrad features documents stored in

Stalin's personal archive for 60 years. They reveal the post-war

paranoia that led him to take the brutal steps against those who won

the war for him. Stalin feared they were a danger to his power and

that the war lessened the mass Soviet belief in his central

leadership.



Stalin and Betrayal of Leningrad also tells the real story of the 900

days under German siege, when more than one and a quarter million

Leningraders perished. It features interviews with the last survivors

of the siege, documents and original film material from the period.



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