For This Land

A true story of the all encompassing importance of land to peasants and the lengths they will go to own it. Starting with Catherine the Great, the Russian Empire started recruiting people to settle and develop a remote province called Volhynia. These freedom-loving, land-hungry farmers cleared the swamps and forests, built towns and churches and created communities with a school system based on their values. After 100 years of progress, their way of life began to crumble as persecutions stirred up by jealousy and political expediency began tear at them. Fighting against betrayal and exile they finally turned for help to a new power rising in Germany. Promises of rescue and redemption quickly turned into more betrayal and the final end of their 150 years in the Russian province of Volhynia.. With the end of WWII they found themselves surrounded by enemies seeking revenge.