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Executed by the very revolutions they built: that is the fate this show investigates. Party founders, guerrilla commanders, and true believers who were executed not by their enemies but by their own comrades. These are the true stories of executed communists.

Each episode reconstructs one case in full, cinematic detail: the revolutionary rise, the shifting party line, the midnight arrest, the confession extracted or invented, and the sentence carried out in a courtyard or a cellar. No host chatting between clips, no panel debating ideology. Just one complete story, narrated start to finish, built from trial transcripts, rehabilitation files, and the letters the executed left behind.

You will follow revolutionaries executed for winning too much loyalty, ministers executed for policies they were ordered to carry out, and old Bolsheviks who confessed to impossible crimes before being executed by the state they created. Some episodes follow a single purge trial session by session; others trace a life from underground militant to the execution wall. All of them treat the executed as what the archives reveal them to be: men and women devoured by the machine they helped build.

If you are drawn to history's darkest political dramas, this is built for you. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe now so the next case lands the moment it goes live.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Mondiale
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  • A single secret dispatch from Mashhad that lost him Stalin's trust

    A single secret dispatch from Mashhad that lost him Stalin's trust
    Oct 20 2026
    A Soviet consul in Mashhad sends one secret dispatch that costs Stalin's trust-what happens when diplomacy collides with covert power?

    A single secret dispatch from Mashhad that lost him Stalin's trust

    In this episode, we trace the years between a Sochi dacha where Garegin Apresov sat with Stalin and a forest outside Oryol where men were shot. The episode follows Apresov’s rise through diplomacy and intelligence in Persia and Xinjiang, and asks how a man so useful to Moscow fell from favor.

    Person: Garegin Abramovich Apresov
    Date: 11 September 1941
    Location: Oryol (forest outside Oryol)
    Event: secret dispatches and intelligence operations from Mashhad and Xinjiang
    Period: 1922-1934 (service in Persia and transfer to Xinjiang)

    - Born in Baku in 1890, Apresov studied law in Moscow, served on the Caucasian Front, and moved into revolutionary and diplomatic roles without waiting for permission.
    - In 1922-1924 he served as consul in Rasht, Mashhad, and Isfahan and acted as Soviet Commissioner in Persia while cultivating language skills and regional networks.
    - British dispatches in January 1923 accused him of organizing thefts of consular documents in Mashhad; copies of private correspondence flowed to Moscow via his network.
    - Colleagues and defectors described him as fluent in Persian and a Turkic dialect, adept in the psychology of the East, and “created by nature” for OGPU work in the region.
    - In 1933-34 he was posted to Xinjiang where he coordinated secret Soviet military support for warlord Sheng Shicai as Red Army units crossed the border without insignia.

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    22 min
  • The SAVAK informant's phone call toppled his one-hundred-twenty plan

    The SAVAK informant's phone call toppled his one-hundred-twenty plan
    Oct 19 2026
    A SAVAK informant’s phone call collapses a promised one-hundred-twenty-member network on a Tehran hillside-how do you fall from that high?

    The SAVAK informant's phone call toppled his one-hundred-twenty plan

    In this episode, we trace Bijan Jazani’s life from childhood courier to philosopher imprisoned in Evin, following the decisions and betrayals that shaped a clandestine network’s rise and unraveling. What choices and deceptions turned a plan for one hundred and twenty fighters into a single fatal transfer?

    Person: Bijan Jazani
    Date: April 19, 1975
    Location: Hills above Evin Prison, Tehran
    Event: Merger with Razm Avaran promising one hundred and twenty members
    Person: Naser Aghayan (SAVAK informant)

    - Born 1938 into a Tudeh Party household, Jazani began carrying secret messages at ten and trusted family networks.
    - By the 1960s he studied philosophy, joined student politics, was arrested in 1965 for circulating underground material, and later completed a doctorate.
    - Jazani merged his group with Razm Avaran in the mid-1960s after leader Abbas Sourky promised scale, weapons, and one hundred and twenty fighters.
    - Naser Aghayan had infiltrated Razm Avaran as early as 1963 and was present during the merger and planning meetings.
    - On April 19, 1975, nine bound prisoners including Jazani were taken from Evin to a hillside-his writings from four books written in prison remained after his transfer.

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    20 min
  • The Party Membership That Turned a Revolutionary Into an Enemy of the State

    The Party Membership That Turned a Revolutionary Into an Enemy of the State
    Oct 18 2026
    A revolutionary linked to the Communist Party of India lands on a Soviet kill list - how does someone rise that high and fall that far?

    The Party Membership That Turned a Revolutionary Into an Enemy of the State

    In this episode, we follow Abaninath Mukherji’s path from mill apprentice to international communist organizer and the choices that carried him across continents. What decisions and institutional ties pushed a weaver’s son from Jabalpur into the inner circles of the Soviet project-and onto a list that marked him for execution?

    Person: Abaninath Mukherji
    Location: Jabalpur; Ahmedabad; Germany; Singapore; Java; Amsterdam; Petrograd; Tashkent
    Event: Co-drafted the Indian Communist Manifesto; founded the Communist Party of India; commanded the Indian Military School
    Date: Manifesto published June 24, 1920; Comintern Congress July 19-Aug 7, 1920; CPI founded Oct 17, 1920
    Status: Listed as "first category of repression" on a Soviet list

    - Born in 1891 in Jabalpur, Mukherji rose from a weaving family to become an assistant weaving master in Ahmedabad by 1910.
    - Sent to Germany in 1912 to study weaving, he returned radicalized and soon worked at Andrew Yule Mill before joining Rash Behari Bose’s revolutionary network.
    - Arrested in Singapore in 1915 for arms procurement, he spent about two years in Fort Canning and later escaped to Java under the name Dar Shaheer.
    - In Amsterdam and Petrograd in 1920 he met M.N. Roy, co-drafted the Indian Communist Manifesto read by Lenin, and attended the Second Congress of the Comintern.
    - In Tashkent he helped found the Communist Party of India, took operational command of the Indian Military School, and joined the Russian Communist Party, shifting from guest to committed member.

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