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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: After her rape, Aliide is so broken that she marries a communist and later even participates in the above-mentioned ColdBloodedTorture on her ''[[WouldHurtAChild ten-year-old niece]]''. Granted, with a gun to her face, but she still does it.
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** BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: After her rape, Aliide is so broken that she marries a communist and later even participates in the above-mentioned ColdBloodedTorture on her ''[[WouldHurtAChild ten-year-old niece]]''. Granted, with a gun to her face, but she still does it.
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* HeroicBSOD: Aliide has several horrible moments of this. After being raped, she stumbles back home, [[MadnessMantra babbling about socks]].
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** Aliide has several horrible moments of this. After being raped, she stumbles back home, [[MadnessMantra babbling about socks]].
** Aliide has several horrible moments of this. After being raped, she stumbles back home, [[MadnessMantra babbling about socks]].
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* LaResistance: Hans Pekk is a guerrilla soldier who fights against the communists.
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* LaResistance: LaResistance:
** Hans Pekk is a guerrilla soldier who fights against the communists.
** Hans Pekk is a guerrilla soldier who fights against the communists.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Martin Truu, Aliide's husband and an ardent Stalinist fanatic, seems [[LockedOutOfTheLoop blissfully unaware]] of the brutalities that the communists are committing in the village. It is either that or DissonantSerenity.
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* WideEyedIdealist: WideEyedIdealist:
** Martin Truu, Aliide's husband and an ardent Stalinist fanatic, seems [[LockedOutOfTheLoop blissfully unaware]] of the brutalities that the communists are committing in the village. It is either that or DissonantSerenity.
** Martin Truu, Aliide's husband and an ardent Stalinist fanatic, seems [[LockedOutOfTheLoop blissfully unaware]] of the brutalities that the communists are committing in the village. It is either that or DissonantSerenity.
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* Heroic BSOD: Aliide has several horrible moments of this. After being raped, she stumbles back home, [[MadnessMantra babbling about socks]].
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* Heroic BSOD: HeroicBSOD: Aliide has several horrible moments of this. After being raped, she stumbles back home, [[MadnessMantra babbling about socks]].
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* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow
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* HoldingOutForAHero: Hans and whoever else remains of the [[LaResistance Forest Brotherhood]] hope the West will intervene and save them from the Soviets. They're wrong.
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* SurvivalMantra: Even in her old age in post 1989 Estonia, Aliide still recites how she's a true communist when faced with a stranger asking questions.
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** More probably the former, as the party secretary tells Aliide that her husband will be kept in the dark about the torture.
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** More probably the former, as the party secretary tells Aliide that her husband will be kept in the dark about the torture.torture.
* YankTheDogsChain: Implied for Zara's mother. After [[spoiler: being tortured by her aunt as a child]], she is deported to Siberia with her mother. You'd think the horrors would have stopped, but she's terrified enough of black limousines (like that of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's successor and an infamous sexual predator) to break out of her mutism enough to warn her daughter.
* YankTheDogsChain: Implied for Zara's mother. After [[spoiler: being tortured by her aunt as a child]], she is deported to Siberia with her mother. You'd think the horrors would have stopped, but she's terrified enough of black limousines (like that of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's successor and an infamous sexual predator) to break out of her mutism enough to warn her daughter.
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''Puhdistus'' (English title: ''The Purge'') is a 2012 Finnish drama film telling the story of two women: Aliide Truu, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after [=WW2=], and Zara Pekk, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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''Puhdistus'' (English title: ''The Purge'') is a 2012 2007 novel by Finnish drama writer Sofi Oksanen, adapted to film in 2012, telling the story of two women: Aliide Truu, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after [=WW2=], and Zara Pekk, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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* DirtyCop: Pasa, Zara's pimp, is or poses as a police inspector.
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* DirtyCommunists: Aliide's enemies are members and collaborators of the Soviet occupation of Estonia, while Zara's pimps are former KGB members.
* DirtyCop:Pasa, Pasha, Zara's pimp, is or poses as a police inspector.
* DirtyCop:
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** She also has two as a result of her [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] toward her sister: one when she sees her for the first time with Hans, and the other when she learns Zara is her grandniece. Both times she goes to angrily chop wood, shouting [[ForeignCussWord "Perkele"]].
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** She also has two as a result of her [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] toward her sister: one when she sees her for the first time with Hans, and the other when she learns Zara is her grandniece. Both times she goes to angrily chop wood, shouting ishouting [[ForeignCussWord "Perkele"]]."Perkele"]].
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: In the book, Zara's mother warns her to stay away from black limousines, because once Stalin's successor, Lavrentii Beria, used to drive around in one in order to prey on women. The terror in Linda's voice as well as the fact that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she breaks out of her]] [[spoiler: torture-induced]] mutism implies she was one of his victims.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: In the book, Zara's mother warns her to stay away from black limousines, because once Stalin's successor, Lavrentii Beria, used to drive around in one in order to prey on women. The terror in Linda's voice as well as the fact that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she breaks out of her]] [[spoiler: torture-induced]] mutism implies she was one of his victims.
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* AnimalMotifs: The fly appears first as an out-of-body dissociation for Aliide, then as her alias as a communist agent, becoming synonymous with her collaboration, and finally appears as the guilt haunting her in her old age.
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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Aliide, while being raped, whispers to herself "I'm not here... I'm not here... I'm not here..."
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* LesCollaborateurs: Aliide marries a communist and has her sister's family expelled to Vladivostok (on the other end of the former USSR) so that she can have a safe life. It's not entirely fair to blame her, considering the horrors she went through.
* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Aliide, while being raped, whispers to herself "I'm nothere... I'm here" repeatedly. The scene in the book is written as a nightmarish dissociation, describing her as intermittently feeling her rape and details such as the stench of the bag she has over her head, and identifying herself with a fly buzzing around the room and not here... I'm not here..."the woman lying on the floor.
* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Aliide, while being raped, whispers to herself "I'm not
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''Puhdistus'' (English title: ''The Purge'') is a 2012 Finnish drama film telling the story of two women: Aliide Truu, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after WW2, and Zara Pekk, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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''Puhdistus'' (English title: ''The Purge'') is a 2012 Finnish drama film telling the story of two women: Aliide Truu, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after WW2, [=WW2=], and Zara Pekk, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Aliide recognizes Zara, the girl tells her that her mother never speaks because she witnessed the horrors of war as a child. [[spoiler: Later on she is shown being tortured by Aliide herself well after the war, which rendered her mute]].
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* [[ComfortingTheWidow Comforting The Widower]]: After Ingel and her daughter are deported to Siberia, Aliide tries to convince the still-hiding Hans to go on a date with her.
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''Puhdistus'' (English title: ''The Purge'') is a 2012 Finnish drama film telling the story of two women: Aliide, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after WW2, and Zara, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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''Puhdistus'' (English title: ''The Purge'') is a 2012 Finnish drama film telling the story of two women: Aliide, Aliide Truu, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after WW2, and Zara, Zara Pekk, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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* FaceHeelTurn: The jealousy toward her sister and the torture she endures make her side with the communists, at least outwardly. The people in the village definitely believe she's a traitor and [[SpitefulSpit spit in her face]] when they see her. In truth, she is a FakeDefector and continues to hide Hans in the house.
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* FaceHeelTurn: The jealousy toward her sister and the torture she endures make her Aliide side with the communists, at least outwardly. The people in the village definitely believe she's a traitor and [[SpitefulSpit spit in her face]] when they see her. In truth, she is a FakeDefector and continues to hide Hans in the house.house.
* FatBastard: The party secretary and Zara's [[spoiler: last]] client.
* FatBastard: The party secretary and Zara's [[spoiler: last]] client.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Martin, Aliide's husband and an ardent Stalinist fanatic, seems blissfully unaware of the brutalities that the communists are committing in the village. It is either that or DissonantSerenity.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Martin, Martin Truu, Aliide's husband and an ardent Stalinist fanatic, seems [[LockedOutOfTheLoop blissfully unaware unaware]] of the brutalities that the communists are committing in the village. It is either that or DissonantSerenity.DissonantSerenity.
** More probably the former, as the party secretary tells Aliide that her husband will be kept in the dark about the torture.
** More probably the former, as the party secretary tells Aliide that her husband will be kept in the dark about the torture.
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** BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: After her rape, Aliide is so broken that she marries a communist and later even participates in the above-mentioned ColdBloodedTorture on her ''[[WouldHurtAChild ten-year-old niece]]''.
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** BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: After her rape, Aliide is so broken that she marries a communist and later even participates in the above-mentioned ColdBloodedTorture on her ''[[WouldHurtAChild ten-year-old niece]]''. Granted, with a gun to her face, but she still does it.
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* Heroic BSOD: Aliide has several horrible moments of this. After being raped, she stumbles back home, [[MadnessMantra babbling about socks]].
** She also has two as a result of her [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] toward her sister: one when she sees her for the first time with Hans, and the other when she learns Zara is her grandniece. Both times she goes to angrily chop wood, shouting [[ForeignCussWord "Perkele"]].
** She also has two as a result of her [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] toward her sister: one when she sees her for the first time with Hans, and the other when she learns Zara is her grandniece. Both times she goes to angrily chop wood, shouting [[ForeignCussWord "Perkele"]].
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Aliide always holds a weapon when checking who's knocking on the door. At the end, she shoots [[spoiler: Pasa]] with her old gun in order to protect her grandniece.
* TheNoseKnows: Not a literal version. When Aliide starts her courtship with Martin, Hans says that it "smells like Russkies" when she's home. Later, when Martin moves into the house, he claims that he smells an enemy when he's around Hans's hideout.
* TheNoseKnows: Not a literal version. When Aliide starts her courtship with Martin, Hans says that it "smells like Russkies" when she's home. Later, when Martin moves into the house, he claims that he smells an enemy when he's around Hans's hideout.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Aliide always holds a weapon when checking who's knocking on the door. [[spoiler: At the end, she shoots [[spoiler: Pasa]] Pasa with her old gun in order to protect her grandniece.
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* TheNoseKnows: Not a literal version. When Aliide starts her courtship with Martin, Hans says that it "smells like Russkies" when she's home. Later, when Martin moves into the house, [[BrickJoke he claims that he smells an enemy when he's around Hans'shideout.hideout]].
* TheNoseKnows: Not a literal version. When Aliide starts her courtship with Martin, Hans says that it "smells like Russkies" when she's home. Later, when Martin moves into the house, [[BrickJoke he claims that he smells an enemy when he's around Hans's
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* MadnessMontage: [[spoiler: As Pasa continues to pressure Aliide to give away her grandniece, memories of all the painful moments in her life flash through her head before shoots him and his henchman.]]
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''Puhdistus'' (English title: ''The Purge'', 2012) Purge'') is a 2012 Finnish drama film telling the story of two women: Aliide, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after WW2, and Zara, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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* FaceHeelTurn: The jealousy toward her sister and the torture she endures make her side with the communists, at least outwardly. The people in the village definitely believe she's a traitor and [[SpitefulSpit spit in her face]] when they see her. In truth, she is a FakeDefector and continues to hide Hans in the house.
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''Puhdistus'' (2012) is a Finnish drama telling the story of two women: Aliide, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after WW2, and Zara, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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''Puhdistus'' (2012) (English title: ''The Purge'', 2012) is a Finnish drama telling the story of two women: Aliide, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after WW2, and Zara, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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*LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Aliide, while being raped, whispers to herself "I'm not here... I'm not here... I'm not here..."
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* TheNoseKnows: Not a literal version. When Aliide starts her courtship with Martin, Hans says that it "smells like Russkies" when she's home. Later, when Martin moves into the house, he claims that he smells an enemy when he's around Hans's hideout.
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* TheNoseKnows: Not a literal version. When Aliide starts her courtship with Martin, Hans says that it "smells like Russkies" when she's home. Later, when Martin moves into the house, he claims that he smells an enemy when he's around Hans's hideout.
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* BrokenBird: PlayedForDrama with both Aliide and Zara.
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** BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: After her rape, Aliide is so broken that she marries a communist and later even participates in the above-mentioned ColdBloodedTorture on her ''[[WouldHurtAChild ten-year-old niece]]''.
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** BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: After her rape, Aliide is so broken that she marries a communist and later even participates in the above-mentioned ColdBloodedTorture on her ''[[WouldHurtAChild ten-year-old niece]]''.
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* DirtyCop: Pasa, Zara's pimp, is or poses as a police inspector.
* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow
---> '''Aliide''': ''(to Zara)'' You're a mobster's wife. Or a businessman's, as they call them nowadays.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Aliide always holds a weapon when checking who's knocking on the door. At the end, she shoots [[spoiler: the mobster]] with her old gun in order to protect her grandniece.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Aliide always holds a weapon when checking who's knocking on the door. At the end, she shoots [[spoiler: the mobster]] Pasa]] with her old gun in order to protect her grandniece.
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* La Resistance: Hans Pekk is a guerrilla soldier who fights against the communists.
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''Puhdistus'' (2012) is a Finnish drama telling the story of two women: Aliide, who has lived through the horrors of the Soviet occupation of Estonia after WW2, and Zara, who is [[SexSlave a victim of sex trafficking]] by [[TheMafiya the Russian mafia]]. Fleeing from her captors, Zara stumbles upon Aliide's hut and is revealed to be her grandniece. This unlocks Aliide's memories and causes her to relate to the young woman.
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!!This film provides example of:
* ColdBloodedTorture: Gang rapes, beatings and ''inserting white-hot lightbulbs into the vagina''.
** BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: After her rape, Aliide is so broken that she marries a communist and later even participates in the above-mentioned ColdBloodedTorture on her ''[[WouldHurtAChild ten-year-old niece]]''.
* GreenEyedMonster: Aliide is jealous towards her sister Ingel of her husband Hans Pekk. It is part of her motivation to keep him alive.
* La Resistance: Hans Pekk is a guerrilla soldier who fights against the communists.
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in that help never comes and Hans [[spoiler: spends the rest of his life in hiding]].
* NeverMessWithGranny: Aliide always holds a weapon when checking who's knocking on the door. At the end, she shoots [[spoiler: the mobster]] with her old gun in order to protect her grandniece.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Both women are brutally raped over the course of the film.
* WideEyedIdealist: Martin, Aliide's husband and an ardent Stalinist fanatic, seems blissfully unaware of the brutalities that the communists are committing in the village. It is either that or DissonantSerenity.
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!!This film provides example of:
* ColdBloodedTorture: Gang rapes, beatings and ''inserting white-hot lightbulbs into the vagina''.
** BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: After her rape, Aliide is so broken that she marries a communist and later even participates in the above-mentioned ColdBloodedTorture on her ''[[WouldHurtAChild ten-year-old niece]]''.
* GreenEyedMonster: Aliide is jealous towards her sister Ingel of her husband Hans Pekk. It is part of her motivation to keep him alive.
* La Resistance: Hans Pekk is a guerrilla soldier who fights against the communists.
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in that help never comes and Hans [[spoiler: spends the rest of his life in hiding]].
* NeverMessWithGranny: Aliide always holds a weapon when checking who's knocking on the door. At the end, she shoots [[spoiler: the mobster]] with her old gun in order to protect her grandniece.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Both women are brutally raped over the course of the film.
* WideEyedIdealist: Martin, Aliide's husband and an ardent Stalinist fanatic, seems blissfully unaware of the brutalities that the communists are committing in the village. It is either that or DissonantSerenity.
