Russia: Red Lies Pts 1 & 2
21 & 22 minutes, 1998
Ref: 64

These multi-award winning films look at one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War through some unprecedented access. Over two decades, the Soviet Union amassed the largest biological weapons program the world has ever known, huge stockpiles of deadly germs such as smallpox, plague and anthrax -- all ready to be unleashed on civilian populations. Boris Yeltsin has promised the secret weapons program ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But did it?