Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Central Asia Season 1 Episode 20 Stalin, War, and New Identities

Revisit the era known as the Great Terror, in which Stalin annihilated the first generation of Soviet communists in Central Asia, with the execution and deportation of intellectuals, political figures, and entire ethnicities. Grasp the ways in which the hardships and horrors of World War II, notwithstanding the vast suffering, laid the foundations of a Soviet identity for Central Asians.