| ETERNAL MEMORY: VOICES FROM THE GREAT TERROR |
Title: Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror
Runtime Listing: 81 minutes
Director: David Pultz
Country: Canada
Genre: Documentary
Original Airdate, Release: Unknown
During the 1930s and 1940s, "social surgery on a monumental scale" was practiced in the USSR by
the Stalinist regime: 20 million died in labor camps, of famine, or in wholesale execut-ions.
Memories of this tragic period are preserved in the ritual exhumation and reburial of innumerable mass graves, by the riveting
testimony of survivors.
Narrated by Meryl Streep, this award-winning documentary examines the Stalinist purges and
terror in the former Soviet Union during the 1930s and '40s, when an estimated twenty million
people lost their lives--some in labor camps, others starved in state-induced famine, and many
others executed for "crimes against the state." Focusing on Ukraine, the film incorporates
historical footage, interviews with witnesses and survivors, public officials, and historians,
including former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Roman Szporluk of Harvard
University, and Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror: A Reassessment.
National Film Network
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