Comunismo, a história de uma ilusão

Em vez do milionésimo documentário sobre tubarões, a RTP2 vai emitir entre hoje e quinta-feira, às 23h25, as três partes de 'Comunismo, a história de uma ilusão'.

"It started with Lenin and ended with Gorbachev. In this three-part
documentary we highlight the people and events that played key
roles in the rise of a revolutionary idea and the fall of an empire.
How was it possible that this idea could fascinate so many people,
including hundreds of intellectuals? How did so many thousands of
people put up with suppression, indignity and economic hardship
and still remain true to the fundamental concepts of communism?
We put this question to politicians like the former German
Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt or the American presidential advisor,
Zbigniew Brzezinski, and prominent contemporary witnesses such as
Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Khrushchev, but also with the
unknown victims such as Gulag prisoners. With these interviews, the
history book is brought to life, cold data becomes real-life
experience. Geographically the focus is on Europe but the influence
of the idea and its political implementation in Asia and America are
also explained. The analysis concentrates on the period from 1917
to 1991: a little more than seven decades during which the greatest
political and social experiment in human history took place."

(Via Também isto é vaidade)