Stalin's Last Purge

This documentary draws upon rarely seen archive footage and information from the newly-opened secret Soviet prison files. It includes interviews with survivors of the period and relatives of some of Stalin's victims who tell their ... stories of life in the Soviet police state. Stalin's last purge not only details the devious plots of Stalin's final years, but it is also the first comprehensive film to examine his actions from the point of view of Russia's Jewish leaders. Many of them, passionate supporters of Stalin during the war years, were later hunted down by his secret police. 15 Jewish writers were put on secret trial and murdered. And in the Doctor's Plot of 1953, Stalin devised a scheme that he hoped would finally demolish all his enemies - first the Jews, then his secret service, and then Mikoyan, Beria and Molotov