- Jon Strickland
- narrator in English version
- Vladimir Bukovsky
- Self - Russian dissident
- Vladimir Lenin
- Self
- Norman Davies
- Self - historian, University of Cambridge
- Nikolay Melnik
- Self - survivor of Ukrainian Famine 1932-33
- Volodimir Sergiychuk
- Self - historian, National University of Kyiv
- Boris Sokolov
- Self - historian
- Pierre Rigoulot
- Self - historian, Institut d'histoire sociale, Paris
- Françoise Thom
- Self - historian, Université Paris-Sorbonne
- Alfred Rosenberg
- Self
- Adolf Hitler
- Self
- George Watson
- Self - literary historian, University of Cambridge
- Joseph Goebbels
- Self
- Hermann Göring
- Self
- George Bernard Shaw
- Self
- Adolf Eichmann
- Self
- Aleksandr Guryanov
- Self - Memorial society, Moscow
- Nicolas Werth
- Self - co-author of 'The Black Book of Communism'
- Vladimir Karpov
- Self - former Soviet Colonel
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Self
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Self
- Joseph Stalin
- Self
- Natalia Lebedeva
- Self - historian
- Sergei Slutsh
- Self - historian
- Ari Vatanen
- Self - member of the European Parliament
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Self
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Self
- Heinrich Himmler
- Self
- Winston Churchill
- Self
- Viktor Suvorov
- Self - former Soviet secret agent
- Igor Rodionov
- Self - former Defence Minister of the Russian Federation
- Lev Trotskiy
- Self
- Emma Korpa
- Self - Gulag survivor
- Christopher Beazley
- Self - historian, member of the European Parliament
- Inese Vaidere
- Self - member of the European Parliament
- Rita Papina
- Self - survivor of the Soviet terror
- Janis Dzintars
- Self - KGB interrogator
- Vladimir Putin
- Self - former KGB officer
- Andre Brie
- Self - member of the European Parliament
- Boris Yeltsin
- Self
- Wojciech Roszkowski
- Self - member of the European Parliament
- Leonid Ragozin
- Self
- Nikolay Kuryanovitsh
- Self
- Ratko Mladic
- Self - war criminal
- Girts Valdis Kristovskis
- Self - member of the European Parliament
- Michael Gahler
- Self - member of the European Parliament
