A Finnish nationalist work by Jean Sibelius written at a time when the Grand Duchy of Finland was chafing under the dictatorship of Czarist Russia. The work was attributed to the rallying of the Finnish people and their eventual freedom.
This video was made for entertaiment purposes and does not reflect a completely accurate historical timeline. Please enjoy it with that in mind.
Video set to his Symphony No. 5 that includes a quick timeline of his life and focuses on a letter he wrote to his brothers called the "Heilgenstadt Testament" that describes what he was feeling while he was going deaf.
A video depicting the wrath Joseph Stalin inflicted on his own people during WWII and the months shortly following the end of the war when he was brutally enforcing communism.