S1E6:The Communist Threat

World War II: Behind Closed Doors

15 Dec 200851 minTV-MA

At the end of the war, the Soviets were denying millions of Europeans the freedoms which many in the West thought they’d been fighting to protect. The once-vital ally, the USSR, soon became the enemy, as the people of Eastern Europe swapped one tyranny for another. Archive material reveals how the Soviet Union began using a notorious Nazi concentration camp for its own prisoners.