Farewell Comrades!

December 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, calls the main Western heads of State. Shortly after, in a televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev announces: “I quit my duties as President of the USSR.” He ends 80 years of history.

It is an unexpected outcome to the grand communist vision that had held the world in anticipation since the October Revolution in 1917. Yet in 1975, during the Helsinki Conference, the utopia seemed to be at the peak of its geographical expansion, controlling or influencing almost half of the planet‘s population.

Farewell Comrades! is an innovative documentary series telling the story of the countdown to the demise of the Soviet world and of the Socialist utopia, which it was based on.

Filmed in 12 European countries, Farewell Comrades! follows the march of history through testimonies of known and unknown people, who participated in the different stages of this slow erosion, which neither state apparatchiks, nor secret services, nor heads of states around the world had predicted.