Television: The truth hurts Russia has yet to come to terms with the gulags, where up to 50 million "enemies of the people" were killed

The Independent - London | July 10, 1999| | Copyright

What's your idea of the perfect relaxing Saturday night at home? A takeaway curry, bottle of wine and George Clooney video? Or an unremitting three-hour documentary about the full horror of Stalin's gulags?

Don't dash out to the video-shop just yet. While nobody's idea of a feel- good night in, Gulag is a television event, the kind of highly serious history documentary that perhaps only the BBC would produce.

Angus Macqueen, the producer/director who made his name with such award- winning documentaries as The Second Russian Revolution, The Death of Yugoslavia and Dancing for Dollars, would be ...

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