All Episodes of The Lost World of Communism

Season 1

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  A Socialist Paradise

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/14/2009

  New series revealing what life was like for people in Eastern Bloc countries before the collapse of communist states, symbolised by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The documentary goes beyond the usual images of spies, secret police and repression to tell the stories of those who lived behind the Iron Curtain through testimonies and rarely seen archive material, beginning with East Germany

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.8/1013 votes

  Socialism in One Family

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/28/2009

  The final programme in the series looks at Romania, where Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ran a personal dictatorship for nearly a quarter of a century. Abortion and contraception were banned as their rule reached far into the private lives of every Romanian. When communism collapsed and the regime was overthrown, the self-styled 'mother and father of the nation' were executed by a firing squad on December 25 1989.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.1/1015 votes

  The Kingdom of Forgetting

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/21/2009

  Documentary looking at Czechoslovakia's attempts to reform communism, which were brutally crushed in an invasion by Warsaw Pact allies in 1968. What followed was the reimposition of hardline communist rule known as 'Normalisation' - under which the reformers were removed, the reforms reversed and history rewritten, leaving the country known as 'the Kingdom of Forgetting'.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown