Death Of An Empire - Episode 1

Episode one traces the communist super-state built by Joseph Stalin which once covered one sixth of the planet and crossed eleven time zones. Irishwoman Mairead Breslin Kelly shares her personal story about her father, Padraic Breslin, who died in Stalin’s work camps in 1940. Seamus speaks with an old friend in Moscow, Andrei Mironov, the human rights activist, who was also imprisoned in the 1980s by Soviet reformer Mikhail Gorbachev. “After the coup of ’91, my friends found in archives the document on my imprisonment signed by Gorbachev” Andrei Mironov.