Blood Money: Inside the Soviet Economy

Jun 11, 2024

1h 28m

★ 7.5

Overview

How did the USSR - a country considered a second-rate industrial power, economically inferior to Germany, the USA and the UK - shape its victory over the armies of Hitler's regime, and secure its place among the winners?

Genres

Documentary

War

History

TV Movie

Production Companies

Gogogo Films

ARTE

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Narrator (voice)

Florence Loiret Caille

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