Liquidation is a highly popular Russian television mini-series. The year is 1946. World War II is over, but the post-war city of Odessa is ruled by serial killer prison-escapees and former Nazi collaborators. Fallen into disfavor, Soviet general Marshal Zhukov is sent to Odessa by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to handle the situation. Together with the head of the local criminal investigation unit, David Gottsman, Marshal Zhoukov begins a special operation post-war Odessa crime cleanup.