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The Dmitriev Affair (2023)

Name: The Dmitriev Affair
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-02-05T21:54:30+01:00
Rating: 3.88

Documentary | 93 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 93 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Jessica Gorter

IMDb score: 7,2 (83)

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The Dmitriev Affair plot

Yuri Dmitriev digs up what the current Russian rulers would most like to forget. After years of searching, he finds a mass grave in the coniferous forests of Karelia in northwestern Russia with thousands of secretly executed during Stalin's 'Great Terror' of 1937. Not the Russian government, but Dmitriev tirelessly traces their identities in the archives and organizes memorials for the relatives . Thanks to his efforts, they finally know where their missing relatives have gone. The fact that he himself was left behind in a maternity hospital as a baby makes him a man with a mission: 'As a human being, you should be allowed to know where you come from and where your family is buried.'

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mrklm

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5 February 2024 at 21:54

Yuri Dmitriev is the head of the Russian human rights organization Memorial Karelia. In the 1990s he discovered two mass graves in the forests of Karelia, the province bordering Finland. After painstaking research, he found written evidence of the identities of the victims who were executed and buried in a secret location on the orders of Joseph Stalin during 'The Great Terror' in the 1930s. Gorter has been following Dmitriev since 2016, shortly before he is arrested and Russian state television starts a smear campaign to damage his credibility. In fact, they are making a sincere attempt to bend history to their will. Especially with today's knowledge, a sensational documentary and a demasqué of Russia under Putin that demonstrably shows more and more similarities with Stalin's reign of terror.