Never Before Seen Life In The USSR | Red Empire | Our History

The massacre at a workers' demonstration against food price rises in a town in South Russia in 1962... the ingenious methods used by dissidents to spread news of secret police repression...

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the vast network of corruption throughout the economy, notably in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan... the problems faced by a film editor entrusted with the task of making Leonid Brezhnev's speeches comprehensible after a stroke in 1976... the epic struggle to build a new railway line across the empire... This programme features further extraordinary eyewitness accounts of life and events in the Soviet Union, many never told before.

This film was first broadcast: 26 Aug 1990

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