There is a Russian joke. Three men are on a train going through the snow to the Gulag, they huddle together for warmth, and they start asking each other how they got there. The first man says, I heard a joke about Comrade Petrov and someone heard me laugh. The second says I wrote an article about Comrade Petrov and here I am. The third man says "I am Comrade Petrov".
When the USSR fell, plenty of documents were released to the public. People who had spent 10's of years in jail realized that their neighbour or best friend told on them for saying something critical about their government. I'll always remember the story of that mother who thanked her neighbour for taking care of her daughter between age 2 and 19. To later discover that that neighbour ratted on her for criticizing the government. The horror never ends.
My Opa was the Bergermeister of a East German village in 49. He had a communist snitch in his office. When I went over to visit in 2009 my Aunt pointed out the grave of the snitch. She spit on the head stone and kicked dirt at it….
@@shadowbannedaccont9479 It could totally happen in America. Imagine cancel culture with incarceration and executions. It happens in every revolution. Either people find reforms to slow, or no reform is possible and it leads to a revolution. We need to listen to both side before the polarization is too much.
@@shadowbannedaccont9479 he turn my Opa in for diverting food to a starving widow and her kids. Opa would have been arrested and thrown back into the Gulag for a second time if it wasn’t for his secretary. She warned him. My mom Uncle Uwe Oma and Opa escaped to the west. My Uncle Immo elected to stay behind (He was later pulled from his house by the Stasi and send to a copper mine gulag) Forgiving Communist is not in our vocabulary
4:18 The smiling man who appears by Stalin's side is Nikolai Yezhov, a NKVD agent responsible for a great amount of mass arrests, tortures and executions under Stalin's orders. However, Stalin accused him in 1938 of leading anti-Soviet activities and forced the agent to make a confession, being executed two years later. He was then removed from the picture we can see in the video, making it seem like he was never there
Nikolai Yezhov succeeded Genrikh Yagoda, who created the GULAG Camp system. Ultimately Stalin accused Yagoda of Anti-Soviet activities and executed him. Yezhov, the bloody dwarf, played a key role in the Purges of 1937-38.
He was also Jewish. There is no Hitler if men like him didn’t instill fear across Eastern Europe. There’s no coincidence hitler came to power after the Holodomor and repeatedly used the term Bolshevik Jews.
Gulag guard: How long is your sentence? Prisoner: Twenty years, but I'm innocent, I tell you! Gulag guard: What a liar; if you're innocent, you only get ten years!
There were voluntears from all over. It's scary that some were from western europe and usa. There were a lot of people who actually believed in the ideology.
I had 2 relatives in Gulags. My Opa from 45 to 48 in Siberia and my uncle Immo in a copper mine gulag 53 to 57. Both had similar stories. The absolute brutality of the guards. The complete lack of any medical attention. And the starvation. When they did feed you it was dirty cabbage soup with 3 grams of bread. My Opas friend fell into the latrine with his bowls hanging from his anus. The guards laughed as he died in human waste. My uncle had to kill a man with a shovel because he kept stealing his food. Nobody even blinked…As you probably guessed my family hates anything Russian and even worse any communist..
I remember reading a story where a new father came home to his tiny apartment in a crowded block in a Soviet City and proudly asked his wife 'where is my little gold '....meaning his new son. A neighbor heard him, informed on him and he was shipped off to a Gulag for multiple years. It seemed that any reason was good enough to end up in a Gulag.
I heard someone came back home I. A Soviet city . He farted and his fart was smelled in the next door apartments . They took him to the gulag . soviets were something else .
@@tarekdbouk3464 No genuine reason was needed as the entire system was geared to getting workers into resource rich regions where others didn't want to go.
@@dannyhughes4889 (Slaves. This was Slavery, and it is important that we call it that; so that apologists and fascists can not camoflauge this behavior)
According to Solzhenitsyn, it didn't even take a dirty look to be sent to the gulags - because there were quotas, people were rounded up indiscriminately, guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Stalin was very famous for being extremely upset if his quotas weren't met, arbitrarily numbers of hundreds of thousand that were simply invented off the top of his head. To show how awfull Stalin was a famous story , Stalin told his gaurds ," He was not to be disturbed" he then closed the doors to his office and waited a few minutes and then started screaming for "HELP ! " when the guards rushed in to help him he had them all shot as he told them ,"He was not to be disturbed".
There was a poster in (Komsomol house or something like that) it said "Life has become better - Stalin -" someone added "for". Nkvd arrrested the caretaker or somebody responsible for premises
I just started reading 'The Gulag Archipelago' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. So far, it is horrifying to say the least. No one, absolutely no one, was above being arrested by the 'SMERSH'!!
Worst thing is that we Russians as a nation did not really accepted that part of our history. Germans acpeted their horible past of Nazis and holocaust, japanese seems at least not supportive of what Japanese empier did to asia in ww2. But to this days there are big part of russian nation that supports Stalin, Comunist and deny that horrors.
"No brutality should be allowed. Although, there's no revolution possible without terror...." *Lenin shortly after the full stablishment of the Soviet Union*
He was obsessed with violence in French revolution. In France it only lasted a few years, from 1789 to 1795. In Soviet Union it was deeply engrained in the system from the beggining. Only Kruschev made some mild reforms in 1956 and Gorbachev in late 80's. But it was fear, paranoia and terror from beggining to end on 1991. Modern day Russia still lives with that legacy.
@@milekrizman In France it lasted for the whole Imperial regime though it became more orderly, less arbitrary under Napoleon. Robespierre was more like the Cheka, Napoleon used a secret service more like the GPU or the NKVD.
I once explained to students that slavery existed during the 1930s - 50s. At first they did not believe me until I explained the Gulags. I challenged them by saying, if this was not slavery, then exactly what was it. I dare say they are not surprised by what is happening in the Ukraine or with the Uyghers in China.
@@nikolaicccp3972 What is the crime....Did one rob, steal, kill, or bring harm to others? or was the crime to think, believe, or simply exist. Did they stand up for themselve or others. Plz just stop. We recogize the truth of the past so that we avoid the same pain in our present and future. I did not want my students to hate Russians, Chinese or anyone else. I wanted them to recognize that potential in themselves.
It's weird how an entire generation has been brainwashed into thinking "slave" is a specifically black problem even to the point the Irish slavery wiki has been entirely rewritten for new history we here celt slavery is a "myth" used to muddy the waters on the issue of US policy a country not even founded at the time!
"Nearly 2 million people died" - According to official soviet scources released by Gorbachev in the 1980's under 'glasnost' it was more like 40 MILLION.
Never will forget a short visit to Vancouver BC cruise ship pier a few years ago, from Washington State, US. We entered a history exhibit around Canada's involvement in the war or 1812. My daughter and I were saracastic. Upon leaving and speaking with docents we realized that we in the U.S. have only been exposed to extremely limited views of any point in history slanted toward U.S. superiority, and that the rest of the world see this while we have been exposed only to the U.S. perspective of dominance and/or superiority over everyone else. It's quite amazing. While the "victors write history", in the case of the U.S., it's just the egos.
I have reed soltzinitsyn the gulach... it was a masterwork.. what he write was a life off suffering.. desease.. dead..starvation .. and also he write who that system works ..that there was nothing you can do ...when you are falling in the hands off the nkvd, i respect the people they survived the horrible campsystem... for me it was the opening from a world that i knever have know that they excist .... excellent books may the victems off the regime rest in peace . This video give more specify whats happened inside the gulachcamps .Thanks for sharing .
And the West thinks that the current "sanctions" will cause people to revolt and make the Putin's regime fall. First, Putin is not the worst (actually, one if the mildest leaders) they ever had. And second, some mild inconvenience due to sanctions will not impress anyone. They had it worse as recently as the 90's. The effects of sanctions will more likely cause protests in the West where people barely know what hardship is anymore. Thus, the war will go on.
@@macon8638 I was deficient in Vitamin B12 all my life probably, but when i started using a exercise vibration plate that pushed my body completely over the top and used up all my Vitamin B12 reserves which isn't stored very well anyway, both my body and brain are complete wreckages now.
Very mildly described. The norther canal took 250000 lives and whe first opened it was only 1 ft deep in places. Kolyma mine produced gold to pay usa for lend-lease. Nearby New Town of magnitogorsk took another quarter million lives, according to notoriously sloppy soviet records. Etc.
@@codymarkley8372 What're you talking about? Do you even live here? But yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing violent criminals enduring such torment. If you think that's wrong, you're an enabler. Violent criminals don't deserve second chances.
@@UA-camViolates1A He is right tho. But not only the USA it is all the west and then the rest. They are all WEF run. Before 2030 they want their technocratic nightmare ready.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward". - The Gulag Archipelago
Solzhenitsyn commented that thieves had a somewhat higher status in the prisons for various reasons including, that they helped in the redistribution of wealth.
Thieves of law were so called capos who worked for guards. Subhumans. And mysteriously these subhumans who cooperated with guards are nowadays portraited as top criminals. In reality the snitch will be lowest of the low in hierarchy. Under the "pakhan" there was no sestyorkas. Shest or number 6 is lowest card in card game. Therefore the sestyorkas are lowest ranking gang members. Far. From being right hand man for pakhna hata = boss of chamber
I survived a year in the Maricopa County jail system, because my case was “forgotten” by the superior court. The average length of stay is normally 30-90 days while awaiting sentencing. The facilities are not designed for long term imprisonment. There were even some inmates that had been there for years because the courts couldn’t decide on what charges to prosecute. Inmates that were finally sentenced would be so excited to go to prison! They literally had parties for receiving 10 year sentences, it was such abject misery in MCSO custody, that going to prison was like going to heaven. Definitely not as harsh as a gulag, but I have a taste of what it feels like being imprisoned by a state that is completely indifferent to your plight.
Last time I was in Las Vegas in the Clark County processing center '92 , I was there for four days locked in a room/cell with about a hundred other people and one toilet and no toilet paper and no fresh air or drinking water (if you were thristy and you wanted water you flushed the toilet then cupped your hands in and drank) , it was so crowded in the small cell with all those people that you couldn't sleep laying down everyone had to sleep sitting straight up on the cold concrete floor with your arms wrapped around your knees. Everyone was horribly sick as even a few days in and you had the flu/cold or what ever nasty virus was going around , everyone so close and no blankets for warmth , what clothes you had on when you were arrested were the clothes you had. I had no money for bail so I was going to be there for weeks but I got an overcrowding early release but I was released in Las Vegas with no way back home to Laughlin as I had been arrested in Laughlin , all people arrested in Clark county were sent there on a bus for processing but were not bussed back to thier home city so you had to find your own way back without food ,water or money wiether it was the middle of a burning hot summer or a cold winter and like most who got out I was sick as a dog. Getting arrested for public intoxication and sobering up in a setting like that is brutal as everyone in the cell was there for different reason some for shoplifting and others for murder/rape there was no distiction so someone who got arrested for failure to appear for a ticket was there beside a person who just got arrested for a voilent offence Until you have experienced the American jail system even for a few weeks it is hard to explain how broke and over crowded it is.
@@chinabluewho I have been arrested multiple times. it's really not that bad, except for the flesh eating diseases, especially when people got them on their faces. some jails even have real milk. to compare it to the gulags is just ridiculous. those people mined granite with their fucking fingertips, and would drink their own piss if they had any. that toilet water would be a blessing to them. there are worse daycares than American jails, but yeah. misery is misery, varying degrees be damned
I watched it and was not impressed. The "horror stories" don't come from trustworthy sources. Solzhenitsyn, for example, is incredibly unreliable (Also a fascist), in fact, when he went to the Gulag he got treatment for his cancer, but of course that goes unmentioned. Using the word 'Gulag' is a clever trick. Gulags were simply prison labor camps, at the time very common around the world, that yes, had horrible conditions at times, that yes, led to neglect and direct deaths, and yes, imprisoned many ideological enemies and innocent people. But with the amount of shit the Russians had gone through, this kind of thing is par for the course, they struggled enough with keeping the supporters afloat and the country running, so really not that surprising. ALSO, the Gulag population per capita at its height was lower than the prison population in the US *today* , just to put the scale in perspective.
@@paradxxicalkxrruptixn7296 If you are not impressed I guess you would find even genocide not impressive...I guess you also admire China as well...If you want to have a proper scale you can just check the respected total imprisonment rates, with the USSR data of course being far from creditable with estimation always biased to lower numbers (something that can be seen even in today's "democracy" of Russia). I hope buddy you don't live in West, because if you are it is really disappointing to see such ungrateful people...
My Russian history teacher told my class a story about a certain book publisher in the days of Stalin. He had a state contract to publish "official" (approved) propaganda that portrayed Stalin as the benevolent genius whose ideologically correct economic policies were solely responsible for all the happiness of all the happy little workers & peasants in the Soviet workers' paradise. Turned out this publisher was a sneaky little insurrectionist who was surreptitiously inserting anti-Stalin sentiments into his publications, between the lines, as it were, yet easily discernible to readers who could ferret out the hidden intentions. Apparently, he'd escaped official detection for a time, at least until the officials were tipped off. It seems one book contained an especially fine photograph of Stalin on one page; the previous page showed a smiling peasant chopping wood. If you held the page up to the light, the grinning peasant appeared to be bringing his axe down upon Stalin's head. Needless to say, this impertinent, ungrateful publisher not only had his state contract cancelled, he was hauled out & shot.
Great job on the video! You should do a video on the building of the Transfagarasan road in communist Romania. Ceausescu did it all with prison labor in the 70’s and it’s still considered the best road in the world by automakers like Ferrari and Lamborghini who use it as a proving ground for their vehicles.
Many people in Russia consider those years of Stalin's rule and GULAG as a golden era of their empire and many of them really want to get back those times.
"Its politicians valued industrialization over anything else." Reminds me of Klaus Schwab and all the people in power around the world moving their country's to complete collapse for the "4th industrial revolution."
Your figure is off by about 38 million people. The two million figure is people who died within a year of release from the gulag. Those who died in the gulag are estimated at 38 million, not mention the 20 million Ukrainians who were starved to death in the 20's. They didn't go to gulag I guess though, they just starved in place.
@@flintmcgerty gae and fake.. Golodnompr its russians mostly starved in the eadt.. Cossacks.. Russian military settlers.. Those in novorossia settled.. Not ukrainians.. It was a famine of the steppe and the dry land.. From new russia all the way to kazakhstan.. Like a russian dustbowl. Those areas were not ukrainian, the were populated with russian speakers
If these ppl had guns maybe they could fight back and avoid being tortured to death in a prison. All tyrants disarm the ppl before they commit genocide.
Putin has closed the gulag museum and forbidden books about it. In neutral Finland the book about the gulag was forbidden ( to not upset the Russian) Up to the the fall of the USSR they had to buy it in Sweden
I'm afraid the author of this video has no knowledge of what parts of Europe at that time were in Poland and what parts were in Ukraine. So no, Soviets and Nazis did not invade Ukraine in 1939 but Poland as Ukraine was already part of USSR. Lviv was not part of Ukraine neither.
Ukrainian were Nazi sympathisers and collaborated with Germany during war.. and to this day there are still there..they have the big Nazis music festivals there annually
My grand father was in the gulag from 45 to 49 I never methim my dad said he never spoke about it I think it took it’s toll on him he died of a heart attack in the early 70s only in his forties
Great point. Due to many purges of paper work and other documents we will never know exactly how many. As a history teacher I'm sure it was way way higher. It was always amazing to me that Stalin said from day 1 that he knew Hitler would betray him, yet Stalin still destroyed his military people
@@erictroxell715 After the German's invaded the USSR in 1941, Stalin told his daughter Svetlana: "It's a shame the Germans had to go and invade us. TOGETHER we could really have done some things!" That is the most chilling thing I've ever read. Just imagine the world if those two monsters had worked together for many years....
A variety of historians have a variety of estimates for how many died in the Gulags. Many of those estimates are far higher than the ones cited in this video. For instance, Anne Applebaum says 20 million died in the Gulag and another 5 million died due to forced internal exile. The late R.J. Rummel cited much larger numbers. The Marxists, of course, claim only a few thousand people died in the Gulag and those only due to "excess zeal" on the part of local administrators.
Does it really need to be said that your not approving or condoning the act of building/running a Gulag? I would hope that would be obvious. Covering a historical subject is different than praising what happened...
Decimation is a term that means to kill one of every 10. If the powers that be on this channel choose to read the posts of their viewers, they will find they have been using the English language incorrectly. The terms you want to use are either annihilation or extermination, never decimation. To lose 1/10 of a force is an acceptable loss annihilation and extermination are total losses.
"Was the sense meaning “to select by lot and kill every tenth man of” the original use of decimate in English? Yes, it was, but not by much. Our earliest record of this meaning is from the end of the 16th century; by the beginning of the 17th century the word had already taken on an additional meaning (“to tithe”). Furthermore, the word decimation, meaning “a tithing,” had been in use for about 60 years before decimate began to be used in any fashion. Perhaps you are one of those true stalwarts who will refuse to be swayed by any argument in this regard, and have resolved not only to continue to use decimate in this way but also to tell those who do not that they are wrong. In that case you deserve applause and support. Come to think of it, you deserve more than that-you deserve an ovation. Except that the original meaning of ovation in English was “a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted,” so I guess we can’t use that word." From Merriam Webster dot com
And at 12:54, he describes prisoners being placed into cells which were then disintegrated. Presumably those fortunate prisoners were free to go after their cells fell into pieces, and very happy that they weren't incinerated instead!
And this is the reason that the 1st, 2nd and every ammendment must not be tampered with. 2A every day... ANY government is capable of this given the right unfortunate, tyranical circumstances.. 2A. Save it.
This surpasses anything the Czars could have ever imagined. Like many revolutions the Russian one was a 360 degree turn that left you right back where you started and worse.
Under the most brutal Czars, roughly 200 to 300 people a year died in captivity. At the height of the Great Purge under Stalin, that many people were killed IN A SINGLE HOUR. (The Great Purge ran for two years.)
@@hughmungus1767 That is completely untrue. Thousands died yearly of hunger and harsh conditions while being used as basically slaves of the nobles and Czars and thousands of Jews died in progroms instigated by the Czars. Of course it doesn't compare to the communist regimes that killed millions. But saying 200-300 died a year is completely untrue.
@@hughmungus1767 I'm not disputing the Soviet system was terrible and worse but far, far more than that were killed under tsarism. Around 5,000 in one group of killings as reaction to the 1905 revolution. Hundreds of thousands of jews murdered.
My family is from latvia and they were in dp camps, their stories are heartbreaking. Then my grandmother will tell me that she was so blessed and lucky because she could have been in a gulag or concentration camp. She is in disbelief of what is going on in the United States nowadays, the entitlement and soft people super obsessed with pronouns/vegan/suppressed information etc. The demonizing of the right by the left as an attempt to dehumanize is similar to nazi dehumanizing the jews. We are headed down a scary path.. history has to be talked about so it is not repeated.
Maybe not quite as drastic as what happened to European Jews in WW2 but it's definitely getting out of hand with all the political correctness these days, at least in America.
@@snapdragon6601 Well you could make an argument that the wars illegal under international law forced by our beutiful world police amerika killed atleast 100 Million People in the last 30-40 years. But Nazi=wOrsT oF aLL tiMe
@@totentanz5445 The US was definitely wrong for getting involved in Vietnam and again in Iraq 2003. The others in my opinion were more or less justified (Korea, Gulf War, Afghanistan). The other question to ask is if Amerika wasn't out there playing world police would it be someone else who doesn't even pretend to avoid civilian casualties (Russia). If nobody did it then would all the smaller wars that would've happened without a policeman around have killed even more people? I think an argument could be made that yes, the hundreds of smaller conflicts could have easily added up to more deaths over the same amount of time. Just look at the Rwandan genocide in the 1990's. The US and UN stayed out for the first 3 or 4 years and the number of people killed in that relatively small area of Africa, was simply astounding. Now multiple that by dozens of hundreds of similar conflicts around the world that would have happened without a global policeman.
Would I survive in the Soviet gulags? Nope. I like to think I'm pretty tough and outdoorsy. I've lived in the South African veld, rain forests of Ecuador, the mangroves of Sulawesi - all without electricity and modern conveniences - for months on end. I'm pretty comfortable with being uncomfortable. When I hear stories of gulags and concentration camps I just think I would give up and perish rather quickly.
I had seen a movie about that years ago. What a horrible and horrific way of life. I hope and pray history doesn’t repeat itself on the way humans destroyed one another.
What happened in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in 20 century isn't communism or socialism. Real socialism is in Sweden. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels weren't for concentraction camps, fear, paranoia and terror. Soviet communism was more like medieval monarcy with 20 century technology.
Americans certainly like Social Security, Telecomm and Farm Subsidies. Germany, France, and Japan love their Industry Unions; to the point that they have expelled American corporations that sought to circumvent them (Walmart and Michlinn for instance.) As for Communism, this video starts on 1923; the Soviets had been disbanded, and sent to the Gulags with everyone else. What is it you think you are describing as Socialism?
It’s crazy how younger generation will only know the Gulag as something fun & where you want to send ppl on Call of Duty. Gulag is celebrated & a joke now. Wild 😂
About one or two years ago there was a survey in Russia, and it showed that more than 70 percent of the population still believes that Stalin was a great hero. So, also in context with the Ukraine war this shows us the mindset of those people. Put it as you want, but I lost all my sympathy for this people which I had
Please post a link to that survey. Also, Ukraine was killing citizens in Eastern Ukraine for the past 8 years. Where was your outrage when civilians were killed 8 years ago?
Russian people have been programmed for generations never talk negatively about their government or they’ll disappear. When your parents and grandparents warn you and tell you of such stories it becomes second nature. That’s what you’re seeing now in Russia
There’s an excellent program uploaded on YT called “Letters from Siberia” about the gulag system it’s unbelievable. Stalin killed & tortured more people than Hitler yet nobody ever talks about Stalin or Pol Pot or Idi Amin Dada anymore. Sad
I'm gonna start a gulag summer camp for teens. I'll have blue haired Americans literally throwing their money at me to go. It's literally the best idea ever. Imagine if the gulags we're filled with people that not only want to be there paid to be there and deserve to be there once they realize they don't want to be there. No refunds
My grandfather was taken to Gulag for being in Estonian defence forces. For being in a "fascist" unit. See everything anti-soviet was "fascist". He was sent to the mines to die. He was in a railcar accident and broke several ribs. He was helped daily to the mine by other prisoners and hidden so he could heal. With the next wave my grandmother and her family were taken. My grandaunt was taken for having Free Estonia magazine. They got back to Estonia 7yrs later. Luckily.
Just like today, everything not sufficiently far left is "fascist" (hilarious too considering fascism is a specified form of socialism, a leftist ideology) Anything not communist is "fascist" to these vermin.
@@Justin.Martyr Fact or not, stupid? What are the facts, not your sloppy understanding if events. You’re afraid to ask for evidence because you know it’s nit there.
3:22 that picture where you're explaining how the gangs resembled the mafia the problem with that actual photograph the man sitting with his shirt on is a prison guard who overtime documented all of the different tattoos there significance there meaning and why and where they're placed he published a book about it. That is why he has a shirt on and the others do not. The prison guard was able to gain their respect and Trust and vice versa he documented this over many decades so it is kind of misleading when you're calling the man sitting the boss and the men behind him the soldiers because man sitting is a prison guard and does not have any tattoos that you would only be able to get in a Russian prison. My memory and the fact that I put here might be a little off here and there but I did not just look this up I am going off of memories from this photo that I learned about its Origins and everything around it five or ten years ago just saying if you get little things wrong how can I trust you get the big things right? Any Research into the gulags and Soviet prisons you would be able to know and understand how misleading and wrong this photo is for what you're explaining just saying my apologies about the lack of punctuation and grammar I'm using voice activated text and they are prohibitively difficult when doing so I do apologize
slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States - 13th Amendment
@@redline1916 that should be repealed and rewritten as slavery shall not be permitted period. Guys spend 40 years making license plates at 5-10c an hour
Don't believe the hype. Records are sketchy at best. If I've read Soviet history even half correctly the Holodomor is the largest mass death event in the USSR's history, excluding WW2. A huge number of internally deported persons also died of exposure and starvation without ever having been in a prison or even charged with a crime or arrested. To become a Zek (A prisoner In the GULAG system) you had to be charged, tried, and sentenced, which could take all of ten minutes.
@@teru797 Specifically in the Gulags? I think 10 or 11 million is way too high. Solzenitzen was my primary source though. I think he puts the figure closer to 2-3 million. There has probably been a lot more scholarship on this, though.
@@tpxchallenger Yeah, I also forgot to ask is that counting just Russia or all of Eastern Europe? The 20 million mark I think is total people murdered by Stalin and the 11 million I think I got that mixed up with the 11 million Ukrainians who were killed in the Holodomor. 2 -3 million may be accurate. I'd lean closer to 3 since the USSR tended to under estimate how many they killed. So if 2 to 3 mil died in the gulags, 11 mil in the Holodomor, i guess the rest were just from mass executions?
@@teru797 Don't discount the deportations. No arrest or criminal charges needed. Whole ethnic populations sent to Kazakhstan and Siberia where many died of conditions related to malnutrition and exposure. Koreans, Tatars, Poles, Volga Germans, Georgians, Ukrainians, and many more. "Bloodlands" is a great book about the terrible plight of people living between Moscow and Berlin. As I said, Solzhenitsyn's "GULAG Archipeligo" is a must-read for anyone interested in this tragic history, but Solzhenitsyn said there were no figures available. Perhaps some research was done in the 1990s when the records were at least partially open, but we will probably never know the accurate truth. From my understanding as a Canadian (Canada has a very large Ukrainian descent population and so very concerned about the Holodomor) the deaths in Ukraine in the 1930s is between 2 and 5 million people. There are no official figures though.
Nonsense. The Soviets kept them as secret as possible and even if the Allies (the Soviets were part of the Allies, but I know you mean Western Allies) knew about them they couldn't have done anything about it. The shame is that once Stalin's terror became known many Western Communists stayed loyal to the cause, as they do to this day.
I mean they could only do so much,if the Russians don’t even care for their own ppl then what can they do ,it’s not like they were jus prosecuting a certain minority or somthing it was mostly their own ppl. Which is even more fucked up in it’s own way🤦🏾♂️
So you are one of them "Team America World Police" kinda progressives...every bad thing in the world is America's fault because we did not prevent it or stop them from doing it? How about blaming the people of Russia for not overthrowing their treacherous government? I know it would be difficult since they aren't allowed to arm themselves against a government that dies kit serve them...but that is why here in the USA the 2nd amendment is such a beautiful insurance policy.
Thank you for this Holocaust Gulags story - In 1939, beginning of WWII, when Germany and Sovietunion invaded Poland thousands of children along with their parents were arested and deported from Poland to the Sovietunion. The Prisoners of War, about forty thousand polish high ranking officers were brutally murdered by Sovietunion secret service in Katyn. Many children became orphans, some were lost in deportations. Hungry, sick, frightened, they often wandered alone. During Hitler-Stalin divorce proceedings Germany invaded Sovietunion in June 1941. The Polish Exile Government in England negotiated the agreement with Stalin to build the Polish Army in Sovietunion. Hundreds of thousands polish soldiers were released from Sovietunion concentration camps to build this army. More as sixty thousands polish civilians also accompanied General Anders Polish Army to get out of the Sovietunion and were saved. At that time, the care of orphans was also organized - among the helpers was the famous pre-war polish actress Hanka Ordonówna, who was also among the deportees. The full history can be found in her book 'Exiled Children'. The first children were evacuated from the Sovietunion to Iran in the spring and summer of 1942. From the Soviet Union death camps to Iran, from there to India, the Middle East, South Africa, New Zealand and Mexico. Nota Bene, from humanity stand point, without those saved children General Anders Polish Army battle of the Monte Cassino in Italy will be only partial victory.
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Was everyone on ephedrine in the 50s?
Do a video about William Wilberforce
@@jarredjones353 ephedrine? I don't follow
weird History of the U.S. Navy
Historie of female hygiene
There is a Russian joke. Three men are on a train going through the snow to the Gulag, they huddle together for warmth, and they start asking each other how they got there. The first man says, I heard a joke about Comrade Petrov and someone heard me laugh. The second says I wrote an article about Comrade Petrov and here I am. The third man says "I am Comrade Petrov".
Nice one 🥲
@@rigopogr2113 Not unlike the cancel culture, in a few years..
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@@pepelemoko01 they are called: "The useful idiots".
There are three of us escaping. 1 of us is ham, the other 2 are bread
When the USSR fell, plenty of documents were released to the public. People who had spent 10's of years in jail realized that their neighbour or best friend told on them for saying something critical about their government. I'll always remember the story of that mother who thanked her neighbour for taking care of her daughter between age 2 and 19. To later discover that that neighbour ratted on her for criticizing the government. The horror never ends.
My Opa was the Bergermeister of a East German village in 49. He had a communist snitch in his office. When I went over to visit in 2009 my Aunt pointed out the grave of the snitch. She spit on the head stone and kicked dirt at it….
Yeah but that kind of thing would never happen in America right??? Hey let's give all the guns to government officials what could go wrong?
@@eshelly4205 I understand that reaction but it's better for her to forgive as hard as that may be.
@@shadowbannedaccont9479 It could totally happen in America. Imagine cancel culture with incarceration and executions. It happens in every revolution. Either people find reforms to slow, or no reform is possible and it leads to a revolution. We need to listen to both side before the polarization is too much.
@@shadowbannedaccont9479 he turn my Opa in for diverting food to a starving widow and her kids. Opa would have been arrested and thrown back into the Gulag for a second time if it wasn’t for his secretary. She warned him. My mom Uncle Uwe Oma and Opa escaped to the west. My Uncle Immo elected to stay behind (He was later pulled from his house by the Stasi and send to a copper mine gulag) Forgiving Communist is not in our vocabulary
4:18 The smiling man who appears by Stalin's side is Nikolai Yezhov, a NKVD agent responsible for a great amount of mass arrests, tortures and executions under Stalin's orders. However, Stalin accused him in 1938 of leading anti-Soviet activities and forced the agent to make a confession, being executed two years later. He was then removed from the picture we can see in the video, making it seem like he was never there
Hey "Jealous" 💫
Nikolai Yezhov succeeded Genrikh Yagoda, who created the GULAG Camp system. Ultimately Stalin accused Yagoda of Anti-Soviet activities and executed him. Yezhov, the bloody dwarf, played a key role in the Purges of 1937-38.
He was also Jewish. There is no Hitler if men like him didn’t instill fear across Eastern Europe. There’s no coincidence hitler came to power after the Holodomor and repeatedly used the term Bolshevik Jews.
@@matthawryliw Yezhov was jewish?? I think the only Jewish NKVD chief was Yagoda who was responsible for 30k deaths.
@@ruturajshiralkar5566 wait what? The guy from Star Wars?! I knew I liked him
*shalom*
Gulag guard: How long is your sentence?
Prisoner: Twenty years, but I'm innocent, I tell you!
Gulag guard: What a liar; if you're innocent, you only get ten years!
You can understand why so many eastern Europeans joined the Waffen SS during ww2. Stalins Soviet union was hell
There were voluntears from all over. It's scary that some were from western europe and usa. There were a lot of people who actually believed in the ideology.
yep ukrainians met german army as liberators
I would too
@@Caesar88888 until they realized they were the basically the same
@@RoCK3rAD they hated jews, in all prespective they fucking hates jews
Kolyma highway is actually known as the road of bones because the people who built it are buried under it.
I had 2 relatives in Gulags. My Opa from 45 to 48 in Siberia and my uncle Immo in a copper mine gulag 53
to 57. Both had similar stories. The absolute brutality of the guards. The complete lack of any medical attention. And the starvation. When they did feed you it was dirty cabbage soup with 3 grams of bread. My Opas friend fell into the latrine with his bowls hanging from his anus. The guards laughed as he died in human waste. My uncle had to kill a man with a shovel because he kept stealing his food. Nobody even blinked…As you probably guessed my family hates anything Russian and even worse any communist..
Good God, how awful, I'm so sorry that they had to go through that. I don't even have words to express how awful reading that was.
I think you understand why Ukrainians dont want to surrender
@@Caesar88888 Oh I agree.. The Communist are evil .
@@shrimptonpalace232 Just part of the whole story. The brutality of the Stasi was felt by all. Mom said you don’t live under communism, you exist.
This post is nightmare fuel.
I remember reading a story where a new father came home to his tiny apartment in a crowded block in a Soviet City and proudly asked his wife 'where is my little gold '....meaning his new son.
A neighbor heard him, informed on him and he was shipped off to a Gulag for multiple years.
It seemed that any reason was good enough to end up in a Gulag.
nice story bra
I heard someone came back home I. A Soviet city . He farted and his fart was smelled in the next door apartments . They took him to the gulag . soviets were something else .
@@tarekdbouk3464 No genuine reason was needed as the entire system was geared to getting workers into resource rich regions where others didn't want to go.
@@dannyhughes4889 (Slaves. This was Slavery, and it is important that we call it that; so that apologists and fascists can not camoflauge this behavior)
You could even get sent there for not having your identity papers on you.
According to Solzhenitsyn, it didn't even take a dirty look to be sent to the gulags - because there were quotas, people were rounded up indiscriminately, guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Stalin was very famous for being extremely upset if his quotas weren't met, arbitrarily numbers of hundreds of thousand that were simply invented off the top of his head.
To show how awfull Stalin was a famous story , Stalin told his gaurds ," He was not to be disturbed" he then closed the doors to his office and waited a few minutes and then started screaming for "HELP ! " when the guards rushed in to help him he had them all shot as he told them ,"He was not to be disturbed".
Solzhenitsyn was a fraud
There was a poster in (Komsomol house or something like that) it said "Life has become better - Stalin -" someone added "for". Nkvd arrrested the caretaker or somebody responsible for premises
Sometimes they would take the best and brightest, that way everybody else would be scared.
@@pepelemoko01 And so leadership was destroyed and no one would fight back.
I just started reading 'The Gulag Archipelago' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
So far, it is horrifying to say the least. No one, absolutely no one, was above being arrested by the 'SMERSH'!!
i have this book on my shelf, i really need to crack into it
it is even more horrifying that author did not describe the reality, but deliberately lied in that book.
Should read one day in the life of Ivan desonovich a reader's digest condensed version by the same author
@@kotbayun6731 Proof?
@@crustybastard1068 I plan too👍
A lot of the pictures are taken from "Drawings from the Gulag", by Danzig Baldaev. A truly sobering book.
Worst thing is that we Russians as a nation did not really accepted that part of our history. Germans acpeted their horible past of Nazis and holocaust, japanese seems at least not supportive of what Japanese empier did to asia in ww2. But to this days there are big part of russian nation that supports Stalin, Comunist and deny that horrors.
Life in the past was gruesome. Life in the future will be too.
Looking at the youth these days ... Yes ... Yes, we're fucked
You must be a hit at party's.
You do understand genocides are happening right now, right??
next 5 years...
@@snafu1542 Where do you think "the youth" come from? Mars??
"No brutality should be allowed. Although, there's no revolution possible without terror...."
*Lenin shortly after the full stablishment of the Soviet Union*
He was obsessed with violence in French revolution. In France it only lasted a few years, from 1789 to 1795. In Soviet Union it was deeply engrained in the system from the beggining. Only Kruschev made some mild reforms in 1956 and Gorbachev in late 80's. But it was fear, paranoia and terror from beggining to end on 1991. Modern day Russia still lives with that legacy.
Lenin was a monster and should be regarded as such.
@@milekrizman In France it lasted for the whole Imperial regime though it became more orderly, less arbitrary under Napoleon. Robespierre was more like the Cheka, Napoleon used a secret service more like the GPU or the NKVD.
The will to live is remarkable. How these people did it or why is beyond my meager understanding
To survive is to prevail!
They prevailed over their evil doers!
I once explained to students that slavery existed during the 1930s - 50s. At first they did not believe me until I explained the Gulags. I challenged them by saying, if this was not slavery, then exactly what was it. I dare say they are not surprised by what is happening in the Ukraine or with the Uyghers in China.
prisons in the USA are aloud to perform "slavery".
@@nikolaicccp3972 What is the crime....Did one rob, steal, kill, or bring harm to others? or was the crime to think, believe, or simply exist. Did they stand up for themselve or others. Plz just stop. We recogize the truth of the past so that we avoid the same pain in our present and future. I did not want my students to hate Russians, Chinese or anyone else. I wanted them to recognize that potential in themselves.
@@christopherstewart1163 by nickname of that guy you can see he's obviously communist and Stalin fan
@@gennarosavastano9424 Yep, but never too late to learn. Hope he doesn't need to learn by personal experiance.
It's weird how an entire generation has been brainwashed into thinking "slave" is a specifically black problem even to the point the Irish slavery wiki has been entirely rewritten for new history we here celt slavery is a "myth" used to muddy the waters on the issue of US policy a country not even founded at the time!
"Nearly 2 million people died" - According to official soviet scources released by Gorbachev in the 1980's under 'glasnost' it was more like 40 MILLION.
I think he was talking about that one specific area and camp
Good converge of history that often isn't taught in public US schools
Nor in Russian schools
Never will forget a short visit to Vancouver BC cruise ship pier a few years ago, from Washington State, US. We entered a history exhibit around Canada's involvement in the war or 1812. My daughter and I were saracastic. Upon leaving and speaking with docents we realized that we in the U.S. have only been exposed to extremely limited views of any point in history slanted toward U.S. superiority, and that the rest of the world see this while we have been exposed only to the U.S. perspective of dominance and/or superiority over everyone else. It's quite amazing. While the "victors write history", in the case of the U.S., it's just the egos.
I’m sure Russia’s Nukes have something to do with it
What about private schools, they're the ones that get away with crimes
Then you get some kid from uc Berkeley talking about how great communism is
I have reed soltzinitsyn the gulach... it was a masterwork.. what he write was a life off suffering.. desease.. dead..starvation .. and also he write who that system works ..that there was nothing you can do ...when you are falling in the hands off the nkvd, i respect the people they survived the horrible campsystem... for me it was the opening from a world that i knever have know that they excist .... excellent books may the victems off the regime rest in peace . This video give more specify whats happened inside the gulachcamps .Thanks for sharing .
One of the most amazing aspects of the film, "The Way Back"... the prisoners were so poorly nourished they frequently went blind... frightening.
I nearly went blind from a alack of Vitamin B12, perhaps this was similar.
@@stevensibbet5869 what caused your lack of b12? If you don’t mind me asking
Meat contains B12 so he is probably vegan
And the West thinks that the current "sanctions" will cause people to revolt and make the Putin's regime fall.
First, Putin is not the worst (actually, one if the mildest leaders) they ever had. And second, some mild inconvenience due to sanctions will not impress anyone. They had it worse as recently as the 90's. The effects of sanctions will more likely cause protests in the West where people barely know what hardship is anymore.
Thus, the war will go on.
@@macon8638 I was deficient in Vitamin B12 all my life probably, but when i started using a exercise vibration plate that pushed my body completely over the top and used up all my Vitamin B12 reserves which isn't stored very well anyway, both my body and brain are complete wreckages now.
Thanks, I'm nuts for history. Always appreciated.
Saved me time
Very mildly described. The norther canal took 250000 lives and whe first opened it was only 1 ft deep in places. Kolyma mine produced gold to pay usa for lend-lease. Nearby New Town of magnitogorsk took another quarter million lives, according to notoriously sloppy soviet records. Etc.
*Lend-lease.
@@gregoryfuller1136 thanks, corrected👍
Oh, you forget! This is *NUTTY* !!!
Just replace the word Soviet with j.e.w.s and history will be much easier to understand.
I really hope we can get past this level of brutality in the future. Holy crap.
that what putins scum is doing in Ukraine now and only way to get past it is to defeat russia on battlefield
America is on its way to it again.
@@codymarkley8372 What're you talking about? Do you even live here? But yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing violent criminals enduring such torment. If you think that's wrong, you're an enabler. Violent criminals don't deserve second chances.
The young generation in the U.S. seem to gravitate toward communism. Not a very bright future ahead I’m afraid.
@@UA-camViolates1A He is right tho. But not only the USA it is all the west and then the rest. They are all WEF run. Before 2030 they want their technocratic nightmare ready.
Also there were labor camps in Latvia where the Soviets sent entire families to the camp.
"The Gulag Archipelago" was a pretty crazy book. ive only read a shortened version but i think that was enough
Nothing real in this book
@@КухнинаЗаказЧебоксары-ц9у lots real in this book. the only ones who deny that are commie supporters
@@КухнинаЗаказЧебоксары-ц9у liar
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward".
- The Gulag Archipelago
Solzhenitsyn commented that thieves had a somewhat higher status in the prisons for various reasons including, that they helped in the redistribution of wealth.
Thieves of law were so called capos who worked for guards.
Subhumans.
And mysteriously these subhumans who cooperated with guards are nowadays portraited as top criminals.
In reality the snitch will be lowest of the low in hierarchy.
Under the "pakhan" there was no sestyorkas.
Shest or number 6 is lowest card in card game.
Therefore the sestyorkas are lowest ranking gang members. Far. From being right hand man for pakhna hata = boss of chamber
I survived a year in the Maricopa County jail system, because my case was “forgotten” by the superior court. The average length of stay is normally 30-90 days while awaiting sentencing. The facilities are not designed for long term imprisonment. There were even some inmates that had been there for years because the courts couldn’t decide on what charges to prosecute. Inmates that were finally sentenced would be so excited to go to prison! They literally had parties for receiving 10 year sentences, it was such abject misery in MCSO custody, that going to prison was like going to heaven. Definitely not as harsh as a gulag, but I have a taste of what it feels like being imprisoned by a state that is completely indifferent to your plight.
What did you do to get out into jail?
Because some people deserve to be forgotten in jail!
Last time I was in Las Vegas in the Clark County processing center '92 , I was there for four days locked in a room/cell with about a hundred other people and one toilet and no toilet paper and no fresh air or drinking water (if you were thristy and you wanted water you flushed the toilet then cupped your hands in and drank) , it was so crowded in the small cell with all those people that you couldn't sleep laying down everyone had to sleep sitting straight up on the cold concrete floor with your arms wrapped around your knees.
Everyone was horribly sick as even a few days in and you had the flu/cold or what ever nasty virus was going around , everyone so close and no blankets for warmth , what clothes you had on when you were arrested were the clothes you had.
I had no money for bail so I was going to be there for weeks but I got an overcrowding early release but I was released in Las Vegas with no way back home to Laughlin as I had been arrested in Laughlin , all people arrested in Clark county were sent there on a bus for processing but were not bussed back to thier home city so you had to find your own way back without food ,water or money wiether it was the middle of a burning hot summer or a cold winter and like most who got out I was sick as a dog.
Getting arrested for public intoxication and sobering up in a setting like that is brutal as everyone in the cell was there for different reason some for shoplifting and others for murder/rape there was no distiction so someone who got arrested for failure to appear for a ticket was there beside a person who just got arrested for a voilent offence
Until you have experienced the American jail system even for a few weeks it is hard to explain how broke and over crowded it is.
@@chinabluewho I have been arrested multiple times. it's really not that bad, except for the flesh eating diseases, especially when people got them on their faces. some jails even have real milk. to compare it to the gulags is just ridiculous. those people mined granite with their fucking fingertips, and would drink their own piss if they had any. that toilet water would be a blessing to them. there are worse daycares than American jails, but yeah. misery is misery, varying degrees be damned
@@chinabluewho hahaha it's not that bad!
Your full of it!
@@chrisfloyd8512 It's all funny until you get forgotten in jail for a crime you didn't commit sonny.
Alexander Solzhenitsen did a great job describing the horrors of hell in the gulag.
Young people who call them selves communists need to see this.
The young people today are so well indoctrinated they would want anybody that taught this to be put in prison.
@@reggveg Unfortunately you couldn’t be more right…a spot on assertion.
I watched it and was not impressed.
The "horror stories" don't come from trustworthy sources. Solzhenitsyn, for example, is incredibly unreliable (Also a fascist), in fact, when he went to the Gulag he got treatment for his cancer, but of course that goes unmentioned.
Using the word 'Gulag' is a clever trick. Gulags were simply prison labor camps, at the time very common around the world, that yes, had horrible conditions at times, that yes, led to neglect and direct deaths, and yes, imprisoned many ideological enemies and innocent people. But with the amount of shit the Russians had gone through, this kind of thing is par for the course, they struggled enough with keeping the supporters afloat and the country running, so really not that surprising. ALSO, the Gulag population per capita at its height was lower than the prison population in the US *today* , just to put the scale in perspective.
@@paradxxicalkxrruptixn7296 If you are not impressed I guess you would find even genocide not impressive...I guess you also admire China as well...If you want to have a proper scale you can just check the respected total imprisonment rates, with the USSR data of course being far from creditable with estimation always biased to lower numbers (something that can be seen even in today's "democracy" of Russia). I hope buddy you don't live in West, because if you are it is really disappointing to see such ungrateful people...
@@paradxxicalkxrruptixn7296 praise be this comment 🙌
My Russian history teacher told my class a story about a certain book publisher in the days of Stalin. He had a state contract to publish "official" (approved) propaganda that portrayed Stalin as the benevolent genius whose ideologically correct economic policies were solely responsible for all the happiness of all the happy little workers & peasants in the Soviet workers' paradise. Turned out this publisher was a sneaky little insurrectionist who was surreptitiously inserting anti-Stalin sentiments into his publications, between the lines, as it were, yet easily discernible to readers who could ferret out the hidden intentions. Apparently, he'd escaped official detection for a time, at least until the officials were tipped off. It seems one book contained an especially fine photograph of Stalin on one page; the previous page showed a smiling peasant chopping wood. If you held the page up to the light, the grinning peasant appeared to be bringing his axe down upon Stalin's head. Needless to say, this impertinent, ungrateful publisher not only had his state contract cancelled, he was hauled out & shot.
Credit to you for properly covering this IMMENSE human tagedy.
Great job on the video! You should do a video on the building of the Transfagarasan road in communist Romania. Ceausescu did it all with prison labor in the 70’s and it’s still considered the best road in the world by automakers like Ferrari and Lamborghini who use it as a proving ground for their vehicles.
Many people in Russia consider those years of Stalin's rule and GULAG as a golden era of their empire and many of them really want to get back those times.
sure
They weren't the ones living in the Gulags.
I doubt that highly.
@@redline1916 it's true. Unfortunately even some in Poland and surrounding countries think so nowadays.
"Many." Stunning over-generalization.
"Its politicians valued industrialization over anything else."
Reminds me of Klaus Schwab and all the people in power around the world moving their country's to complete collapse for the "4th industrial revolution."
Yes this is only the beginning
,, these comments will have us sent to the gulag
I am loving these longer videos 💗
*but, IF you ReJect Lord Jesus, then*
*You Get toBURN inHELL Fire for ALL ETERnity!!!!*
History is a vital part of a childs education. I wish we had known this when I was young.
Moral of the story. That's why dictators and criminals always want to disarm citizens....
Your figure is off by about 38 million people. The two million figure is people who died within a year of release from the gulag. Those who died in the gulag are estimated at 38 million, not mention the 20 million Ukrainians who were starved to death in the 20's. They didn't go to gulag I guess though, they just starved in place.
What nonsence
The Holodomor
@@flintmcgerty gae and fake.. Golodnompr its russians mostly starved in the eadt.. Cossacks.. Russian military settlers.. Those in novorossia settled.. Not ukrainians.. It was a famine of the steppe and the dry land.. From new russia all the way to kazakhstan.. Like a russian dustbowl. Those areas were not ukrainian, the were populated with russian speakers
There wasn't ever 20 million Ukraine at that time.
If these ppl had guns maybe they could fight back and avoid being tortured to death in a prison. All tyrants disarm the ppl before they commit genocide.
Excellent video. Thanks 😊
10:15 - “unwelcome intercourse” is known as rape. Seems like correct terminology would be more appropriate.
I think they get hit by youtube algo for using that word.
@@blenderbanana ah, I didn’t realize that. Thank you for the clarification.
Correct plus the video gets demonetisation I thought unwelcome intercourse was a good vocabulary selection it gets the point across
Putin has closed the gulag museum and forbidden books about it. In neutral Finland the book about the gulag was forbidden ( to not upset the Russian) Up to the the fall of the USSR they had to buy it in Sweden
I'm afraid the author of this video has no knowledge of what parts of Europe at that time were in Poland and what parts were in Ukraine. So no, Soviets and Nazis did not invade Ukraine in 1939 but Poland as Ukraine was already part of USSR. Lviv was not part of Ukraine neither.
That's what I thought. I was wondering if the Soviets and Nazis also invaded Ukraine, which I hadn't heard of.
Ukrainian were Nazi sympathisers and collaborated with Germany during war.. and to this day there are still there..they have the big Nazis music festivals there annually
Yea this channel is pretty trash and does that sort of thing a lot. They also like to leave out facts that would get them demonitized for stating.
My grand father was in the gulag from 45 to 49 I never methim my dad said he never spoke about it I think it took it’s toll on him he died of a heart attack in the early 70s only in his forties
I'm actually surprised that only 2 million died. That's something like 10%.
Great point. Due to many purges of paper work and other documents we will never know exactly how many. As a history teacher I'm sure it was way way higher. It was always amazing to me that Stalin said from day 1 that he knew Hitler would betray him, yet Stalin still destroyed his military people
@@erictroxell715 After the German's invaded the USSR in 1941, Stalin told his daughter Svetlana: "It's a shame the Germans had to go and invade us. TOGETHER we could really have done some things!" That is the most chilling thing I've ever read. Just imagine the world if those two monsters had worked together for many years....
A variety of historians have a variety of estimates for how many died in the Gulags. Many of those estimates are far higher than the ones cited in this video. For instance, Anne Applebaum says 20 million died in the Gulag and another 5 million died due to forced internal exile. The late R.J. Rummel cited much larger numbers. The Marxists, of course, claim only a few thousand people died in the Gulag and those only due to "excess zeal" on the part of local administrators.
@@hughmungus1767 man that's horrifying. I can only imgine the murders they would've committed together. Gives me the chills man.
@@erictroxell715
It was way more than 2 million. Stalin alone, by decree had 25 million Christians liquidated (The Old Believers)...
Love the longer content, guys!
Kolyma- where it was said “12 months out of the year it’s winter… and the rest is summer”
*Why DO MorRons use FAKE Names of Other PeoPLe!!!???*
@@Justin.Martyr 😂
Does it really need to be said that your not approving or condoning the act of building/running a Gulag?
I would hope that would be obvious. Covering a historical subject is different than praising what happened...
Relax guy, he is just telling us about some "Nutty History"
Dammit Ivan, the old ruse "don't come any closer or I'll chop off his hand" only works when it's NOT your own hand.
Scary to see similar mentalities in the US these days 😕
"The Gulag Archipelago". Very good book.
I got a nice copy of the original 3 volume set, still trying to set aside time to work through it...
BABE WAKE UP NUTTY HISTORY JUST UPLOADED
Babe go back to sleep, it was just a wet dream!
Decimation is a term that means to kill one of every 10. If the powers that be on this channel choose to read the posts of their viewers, they will find they have been using the English language incorrectly. The terms you want to use are either annihilation or extermination, never decimation. To lose 1/10 of a force is an acceptable loss annihilation and extermination are total losses.
Unless you, or your family are in that 10%?
"Was the sense meaning “to select by lot and kill every tenth man of” the original use of decimate in English? Yes, it was, but not by much. Our earliest record of this meaning is from the end of the 16th century; by the beginning of the 17th century the word had already taken on an additional meaning (“to tithe”). Furthermore, the word decimation, meaning “a tithing,” had been in use for about 60 years before decimate began to be used in any fashion.
Perhaps you are one of those true stalwarts who will refuse to be swayed by any argument in this regard, and have resolved not only to continue to use decimate in this way but also to tell those who do not that they are wrong. In that case you deserve applause and support.
Come to think of it, you deserve more than that-you deserve an ovation. Except that the original meaning of ovation in English was “a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted,” so I guess we can’t use that word."
From Merriam Webster dot com
My brotha from anotha motha
And at 12:54, he describes prisoners being placed into cells which were then disintegrated. Presumably those fortunate prisoners were free to go after their cells fell into pieces, and very happy that they weren't incinerated instead!
I wish people cared more about history so we don't go down the same paths
In Siberia the Inuits were used to track down anyone who tried to escape from the fenceless camps.
And this is the reason that the 1st, 2nd and every ammendment must not be tampered with. 2A every day... ANY government is capable of this given the right unfortunate, tyranical circumstances.. 2A. Save it.
The part with the children. Hurt my heart.
always something interesting with facts i didn't know.
Not just 2 million died in the Gulags but 20 million...
I'm shocked YT allowed you to post this about their heroes!
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@@Justin.Martyr You shouldn't project.
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UA-cam is owned by Google. Unlikely to worship socialists.
@@richardofoz2167 WOW, are you out of touch
Damn Stalin was just pure evil.
The nazis & soviets invaded Poland in Sept 39, when did they have time to invade Ukraine?
The part of Poland that the Soviets seized in 1939 was added to Ukraine after WW II. Perhaps this is what the presenter meant?
@@hughmungus1767 thank you. I did not know that
The Soviets didn't need to invade Ukraine, as it was already the part of the USSR.
This surpasses anything the Czars could have ever imagined. Like many revolutions the Russian one was a 360 degree turn that left you right back where you started and worse.
Under the most brutal Czars, roughly 200 to 300 people a year died in captivity. At the height of the Great Purge under Stalin, that many people were killed IN A SINGLE HOUR. (The Great Purge ran for two years.)
True.
Czar Nicholas managed to bungle his Nation into WW1; getting 3.5 Million Russians killed in the process.
@@hughmungus1767 That is completely untrue. Thousands died yearly of hunger and harsh conditions while being used as basically slaves of the nobles and Czars and thousands of Jews died in progroms instigated by the Czars. Of course it doesn't compare to the communist regimes that killed millions. But saying 200-300 died a year is completely untrue.
@@hughmungus1767 I'm not disputing the Soviet system was terrible and worse but far, far more than that were killed under tsarism. Around 5,000 in one group of killings as reaction to the 1905 revolution. Hundreds of thousands of jews murdered.
That’s not “nutty”. It’s psychotic and evil. Jesus.
Interesting. Excellent video.
My family is from latvia and they were in dp camps, their stories are heartbreaking. Then my grandmother will tell me that she was so blessed and lucky because she could have been in a gulag or concentration camp.
She is in disbelief of what is going on in the United States nowadays, the entitlement and soft people super obsessed with pronouns/vegan/suppressed information etc. The demonizing of the right by the left as an attempt to dehumanize is similar to nazi dehumanizing the jews. We are headed down a scary path.. history has to be talked about so it is not repeated.
Maybe not quite as drastic as what happened to European Jews in WW2 but it's definitely getting out of hand with all the political correctness these days, at least in America.
@@snapdragon6601 Well you could make an argument that the wars illegal under international law forced by our beutiful world police amerika killed atleast 100 Million People in the last 30-40 years. But Nazi=wOrsT oF aLL tiMe
@@totentanz5445 The US was definitely wrong for getting involved in Vietnam and again in Iraq 2003. The others in my opinion were more or less justified (Korea, Gulf War, Afghanistan). The other question to ask is if Amerika wasn't out there playing world police would it be someone else who doesn't even pretend to avoid civilian casualties (Russia). If nobody did it then would all the smaller wars that would've happened without a policeman around have killed even more people? I think an argument could be made that yes, the hundreds of smaller conflicts could have easily added up to more deaths over the same amount of time. Just look at the Rwandan genocide in the 1990's. The US and UN stayed out for the first 3 or 4 years and the number of people killed in that relatively small area of Africa, was simply astounding. Now multiple that by dozens of hundreds of similar conflicts around the world that would have happened without a global policeman.
And in the meantime, the country with the biggest percentage of it's population in prison is...
would love to hear the history of the moors.
Just look it up. No need to "speak between the lines"
@@reginaldgreen6221i have done some in my years. History is writing by the victors. I just like hearing others views on history.
the who?
@@009fly doctor. Doctor who
Based
Would I survive in the Soviet gulags? Nope. I like to think I'm pretty tough and outdoorsy. I've lived in the South African veld, rain forests of Ecuador, the mangroves of Sulawesi - all without electricity and modern conveniences - for months on end. I'm pretty comfortable with being uncomfortable. When I hear stories of gulags and concentration camps I just think I would give up and perish rather quickly.
This man really said Arch-a-po-lego
I had seen a movie about that years ago. What a horrible and horrific way of life. I hope and pray history doesn’t repeat itself on the way humans destroyed one another.
It's weird that every video now needs a disclaimer
I just watched The Way Back a couple days ago, highly recommend!
And there are still people in this world that like socialism and communism. It's never a good ending for people.
Totalitarianism is always bad for the people. Beware Strongman rule of any kind.
What happened in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in 20 century isn't communism or socialism. Real socialism is in Sweden. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels weren't for concentraction camps, fear, paranoia and terror. Soviet communism was more like medieval monarcy with 20 century technology.
Americans certainly like Social Security, Telecomm and Farm Subsidies.
Germany, France, and Japan love their Industry Unions; to the point that they have expelled American corporations that sought to circumvent them (Walmart and Michlinn for instance.)
As for Communism, this video starts on 1923; the Soviets had been disbanded, and sent to the Gulags with everyone else.
What is it you think you are describing as Socialism?
The UKs greatest ever government was also it's only ever socialist one.
massive underestimate of the soviet genocide...more like 40 million dead/killed
The gulags are wayy more viral than you'd think 😂
Anyone else notice the guy in the thumbnail picture was chopping his OWN hand off?
I met a woman who walked out of the gulag with her small daughter. Still can’t imagine how she did it.😊
It’s crazy how younger generation will only know the Gulag as something fun & where you want to send ppl on Call of Duty. Gulag is celebrated & a joke now. Wild 😂
The part about scientists was touched on in the movie Firefox.
About one or two years ago there was a survey in Russia, and it showed that more than 70 percent of the population still believes that Stalin was a great hero. So, also in context with the Ukraine war this shows us the mindset of those people.
Put it as you want, but I lost all my sympathy for this people which I had
Please post a link to that survey. Also, Ukraine was killing citizens in Eastern Ukraine for the past 8 years. Where was your outrage when civilians were killed 8 years ago?
@@kickinthegob obviously you are brainwashed...
@@kickinthegob I hear there are a lot of nazis in Ukraine and Putin is just clearing them out, but this day and age who do you believe?
Russian people have been programmed for generations never talk negatively about their government or they’ll disappear. When your parents and grandparents warn you and tell you of such stories it becomes second nature. That’s what you’re seeing now in Russia
And lots of people in Germany like Hitler, same as americans liking the confederates. Whad do you propose we should do to them?
There’s an excellent program uploaded on YT called “Letters from Siberia” about the gulag system it’s unbelievable. Stalin killed & tortured more people than Hitler yet nobody ever talks about Stalin or Pol Pot or
Idi Amin Dada anymore. Sad
I'm gonna start a gulag summer camp for teens. I'll have blue haired Americans literally throwing their money at me to go. It's literally the best idea ever. Imagine if the gulags we're filled with people that not only want to be there paid to be there and deserve to be there once they realize they don't want to be there. No refunds
The lawyers will eat you for breakfast
@@george5156 thats what waivers are for
Don't forget majority of the German prisoners did not return to Germany.
My grandfather was taken to Gulag for being in Estonian defence forces. For being in a "fascist" unit. See everything anti-soviet was "fascist". He was sent to the mines to die. He was in a railcar accident and broke several ribs. He was helped daily to the mine by other prisoners and hidden so he could heal. With the next wave my grandmother and her family were taken. My grandaunt was taken for having Free Estonia magazine. They got back to Estonia 7yrs later. Luckily.
Just like today, everything not sufficiently far left is "fascist" (hilarious too considering fascism is a specified form of socialism, a leftist ideology) Anything not communist is "fascist" to these vermin.
Sounds a lot like today's leftists and democrats...
One of the things is that they didn’t have musical instruments or arts and crafts, like that other camp we hear so much about.
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@@Justin.Martyr Fact or not, stupid? What are the facts, not your sloppy understanding if events. You’re afraid to ask for evidence because you know it’s nit there.
Human cruelty. One of the core tenets of our species.
7:11 at least they had a band to play while working lol
3:22 that picture where you're explaining how the gangs resembled the mafia the problem with that actual photograph the man sitting with his shirt on is a prison guard who overtime documented all of the different tattoos there significance there meaning and why and where they're placed he published a book about it. That is why he has a shirt on and the others do not. The prison guard was able to gain their respect and Trust and vice versa he documented this over many decades so it is kind of misleading when you're calling the man sitting the boss and the men behind him the soldiers because man sitting is a prison guard and does not have any tattoos that you would only be able to get in a Russian prison. My memory and the fact that I put here might be a little off here and there but I did not just look this up I am going off of memories from this photo that I learned about its Origins and everything around it five or ten years ago just saying if you get little things wrong how can I trust you get the big things right? Any Research into the gulags and Soviet prisons you would be able to know and understand how misleading and wrong this photo is for what you're explaining just saying my apologies about the lack of punctuation and grammar I'm using voice activated text and they are prohibitively difficult when doing so I do apologize
Wow ,sounds like you've more to teach .
They also used some photos of the concentration camp of Auschwitz which was created by Nazi Germany.
This is precisely why Americans have the 2nd Amendment!
Gulags are coming back in a big way
Yes, Justin Trudeau has ordered "Covid" camps be constructed across Canada.
Yea we’ll see about that
slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States
- 13th Amendment
@@blenderbanana They'll repeal it. Mark my words friend, the current administration has none of your well-being or humanity in mind.
@@redline1916 that should be repealed and rewritten as slavery shall not be permitted period. Guys spend 40 years making license plates at 5-10c an hour
Humans can be horribly callous and harsh towards one another. How can this exist at such an industrial scale?
2 million? I'm pretty sure it was closer to 20 million that were killed. over 11 million specifically in Gulags
Don't believe the hype. Records are sketchy at best.
If I've read Soviet history even half correctly the Holodomor is the largest mass death event in the USSR's history, excluding WW2. A huge number of internally deported persons also died of exposure and starvation without ever having been in a prison or even charged with a crime or arrested.
To become a Zek (A prisoner In the GULAG system) you had to be charged, tried, and sentenced, which could take all of ten minutes.
@@tpxchallenger So do you think it was higher or lower than these numbers?
@@teru797 Specifically in the Gulags? I think 10 or 11 million is way too high. Solzenitzen was my primary source though. I think he puts the figure closer to 2-3 million. There has probably been a lot more scholarship on this, though.
@@tpxchallenger Yeah, I also forgot to ask is that counting just Russia or all of Eastern Europe? The 20 million mark I think is total people murdered by Stalin and the 11 million I think I got that mixed up with the 11 million Ukrainians who were killed in the Holodomor. 2 -3 million may be accurate. I'd lean closer to 3 since the USSR tended to under estimate how many they killed. So if 2 to 3 mil died in the gulags, 11 mil in the Holodomor, i guess the rest were just from mass executions?
@@teru797 Don't discount the deportations. No arrest or criminal charges needed. Whole ethnic populations sent to Kazakhstan and Siberia where many died of conditions related to malnutrition and exposure. Koreans, Tatars, Poles, Volga Germans, Georgians, Ukrainians, and many more.
"Bloodlands" is a great book about the terrible plight of people living between Moscow and Berlin. As I said, Solzhenitsyn's "GULAG Archipeligo" is a must-read for anyone interested in this tragic history, but Solzhenitsyn said there were no figures available. Perhaps some research was done in the 1990s when the records were at least partially open, but we will probably never know the accurate truth.
From my understanding as a Canadian (Canada has a very large Ukrainian descent population and so very concerned about the Holodomor) the deaths in Ukraine in the 1930s is between 2 and 5 million people. There are no official figures though.
Geez.... humans have such a terrible history. The way people treated other people. Just horrible
The Allies turned a blind eye regarding the gulags so they were also indirectly responsible for keeping them alive.
Nonsense. The Soviets kept them as secret as possible and even if the Allies (the Soviets were part of the Allies, but I know you mean Western Allies) knew about them they couldn't have done anything about it. The shame is that once Stalin's terror became known many Western Communists stayed loyal to the cause, as they do to this day.
I mean they could only do so much,if the Russians don’t even care for their own ppl then what can they do ,it’s not like they were jus prosecuting a certain minority or somthing it was mostly their own ppl. Which is even more fucked up in it’s own way🤦🏾♂️
Yeah I mean personal accountability is a pretty wild concern isn’t it aye?
How? Really
So you are one of them "Team America World Police" kinda progressives...every bad thing in the world is America's fault because we did not prevent it or stop them from doing it?
How about blaming the people of Russia for not overthrowing their treacherous government? I know it would be difficult since they aren't allowed to arm themselves against a government that dies kit serve them...but that is why here in the USA the 2nd amendment is such a beautiful insurance policy.
Terrible how we treat each other
How did they disinegrate cells full of prisoners?
Take a long, hard look at this video, for if we are not careful it will be OUR future!
This country should become a parking lot...
Russia? I agree
Or a bomb crater, Mikael
Thank you for this Holocaust Gulags story - In 1939, beginning of WWII, when Germany and Sovietunion invaded Poland thousands of children along with their parents were arested and deported from Poland to the Sovietunion. The Prisoners of War, about forty thousand polish high ranking officers were brutally murdered by Sovietunion secret service in Katyn. Many children became orphans, some were lost in deportations. Hungry, sick, frightened, they often wandered alone. During Hitler-Stalin divorce proceedings Germany invaded Sovietunion in June 1941. The Polish Exile Government in England negotiated the agreement with Stalin to build the Polish Army in Sovietunion. Hundreds of thousands polish soldiers were released from Sovietunion concentration camps to build this army. More as sixty thousands polish civilians also accompanied General Anders Polish Army to get out of the Sovietunion and were saved. At that time, the care of orphans was also organized - among the helpers was the famous pre-war polish actress Hanka Ordonówna, who was also among the deportees. The full history can be found in her book 'Exiled Children'. The first children were evacuated from the Sovietunion to Iran in the spring and summer of 1942. From the Soviet Union death camps to Iran, from there to India, the Middle East, South Africa, New Zealand and Mexico. Nota Bene, from humanity stand point, without those saved children General Anders Polish Army battle of the Monte Cassino in Italy will be only partial victory.