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The Soviet Story
A film by Edvins Snore

FILM SCREENING
Monday, November 2, 2009
6:00 p.m.

Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Introductions by Andrejs Pildegovics, Latvia's Ambassador to the U.S.

The Soviet Story is a story that has never been fully told — until now. Many of the crimes committed by the Soviet regime, stretching back over 70 years, have remained hidden or their recounting has been taboo. Assisted by the West, the USSR triumphed in World War II. But, the communist regime had assisted the Nazis in their persecution of the Jews and murdered tens of millions of its own people. This powerful film drills deep into historical events that have remained selectively covered or unacknowledged. These include

• The Great Famine in Ukraine (1932/33)
• The Katyn massacre (1940)
• The SS-KGB partnership (in the late 1930s)
• Mass deportations in the Soviet Union
• Medical experiments and death in the GULAG concentration camps

The Soviet Story also illuminates the impact of the Soviet system on modern day Europe. This screening is a special opportunity to view a powerful film that pulls back myths and intentionally withheld evidence to reveal the true facts, pain, injustices, and more, that have remained in darkness for over a generation.

• Schedule of The Soviet Story on PBS
• The Soviet Story poster
• More about the The Soviet Story
  

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