title: Musya
abstract: &lt;p&gt;This paper is written in support of my documentary film &lt;em&gt;Musya. &lt;/em&gt;The film follows a group of students from a Russian school in Toronto as they re-enact life stories of a living witness to Stalin’s Reign of Terror, for whom “life under the Soviets was worse than under the Germans during the war”. With major parts of the Soviet security service archives still classified, the topic of mass repressions is being deliberately excluded from the pro-Soviet narrative currently