Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In the 1930's a great famine struck the Soviet Union and prompted a vast exodus: in two years, more than ten million people left the countryside, plunging the cities into chaos and criminality. To restore law and order, Stalin organized in 1933 a great “cleansing” of Moscow and Leningrad of all citizens deemed a social nuisance. 6000 “unwanted” people were randomly chosen and arrested: peasants, petty criminals, visitors, vagrants or just individuals who didn’t fit into the ideal communist class structure.
Men, women and children were transported during eight days by train to Nazino, a small and desert Siberian island located 3000 km east of Moscow. Deported to the vast emptiness of Siberia, the prisoners were abandoned with only flour for food, a few tools and little clothing, whereas temperatures fell below zero. Nazino had nothing, no shelter or infrastructure. Despair quickly led to theft and criminality and starvation to scenes of mass cannibalism…
Through reconstitutions and archive pictures, this documentary unveils the arbitrary, disorganized and hasty methods used by the Soviet Regime for deporting people. From Moscow to Nazino, the filmmaker leads a thrilling investigation to follow the deportees’ trail. An unbelievable and nightmarish story that plays like a thriller with a tension that lasts until the end.
Documentary: Cannibal Island
Director: Cédric Condon
Production: Kilaohm productions
#fulldocumentary #documentary #film #Stalin #SovietUnion #HistoryDocumentary #Nazino #Gulag #WWIIHistory #ColdWar #SovietHistory #StalinEra #HumanTragedy #SurvivalHistory #Russia
In the 1930's a great famine struck the Soviet Union and prompted a vast exodus: in two years, more than ten million people left the countryside, plunging the cities into chaos and criminality. To restore law and order, Stalin organized in 1933 a great “cleansing” of Moscow and Leningrad of all citizens deemed a social nuisance. 6000 “unwanted” people were randomly chosen and arrested: peasants, petty criminals, visitors, vagrants or just individuals who didn’t fit into the ideal communist class structure.
Men, women and children were transported during eight days by train to Nazino, a small and desert Siberian island located 3000 km east of Moscow. Deported to the vast emptiness of Siberia, the prisoners were abandoned with only flour for food, a few tools and little clothing, whereas temperatures fell below zero. Nazino had nothing, no shelter or infrastructure. Despair quickly led to theft and criminality and starvation to scenes of mass cannibalism…
Through reconstitutions and archive pictures, this documentary unveils the arbitrary, disorganized and hasty methods used by the Soviet Regime for deporting people. From Moscow to Nazino, the filmmaker leads a thrilling investigation to follow the deportees’ trail. An unbelievable and nightmarish story that plays like a thriller with a tension that lasts until the end.
Documentary: Cannibal Island
Director: Cédric Condon
Production: Kilaohm productions
#fulldocumentary #documentary #film #Stalin #SovietUnion #HistoryDocumentary #Nazino #Gulag #WWIIHistory #ColdWar #SovietHistory #StalinEra #HumanTragedy #SurvivalHistory #Russia
