Yeah, it's definitely insane. I have spoken with a few neo-communist types and they are some of the worst people I have ever met. Some of them even go so far as to say that everyone who was enslaved, imprisoned, tortured or murdered by men like Lenin and Stalin deserved it-and then gleefully call for more blood and death. You'd think we'd be at a point where we can all agree that slavery and murder are wrong, but apparently not. Some people still seem to think those things are okay as long as it isn't the West or the Nazis who are doing it.
Everyone talks about neo-Nazis, and they should. But nobody really talks about Holodomor deniers, Stalin stans, and people very fond of the phrase “CIA propaganda”
I have spoken with some of those people. Unsurprisingly, they are always very rude, arrogant, and bigoted and sometimes even embrace the mass slaughter, saying that it's okay to kill people who are opposed to the "glorious and happy ways of our leaders Lenin". It's sick and demented to the core. I still don't get why they seem to think I'll join them if they insult me enough. Maybe they're all still in elementary school. You have to be almost as stupid as a flat-earther to deny the bloodsoaked history of Communism with all the evidence of it in every country it was tried. I still have a whole lot to learn about the history of the USSR, but what I've read and watched so far was worse than I could have even imagined.
Nazists, Communists, Capitalists.. All just the worst of the sewer that is humanity.. But true, sadly we in the west tend to downplay the beast from the east..
after the Nazi concentration camp, any prison will be paradise. As for the GULAG, it was there, in the camp hospital, that in 1952 Solzhenitsyn was operated on for a cancerous tumor. And, what a surprise, he did not die and lived to be 90 years old.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э working at - 50 C without proper clothing on starvation rations and absurd quotas, and under constant threat of summary execution if you did not meet them. Getting abused and humiliated not only by the prison guards, but by criminal inmates. Resorting to looting buried corpses of civilians for clothing and cannibalism for meat not out of the question. Hint: this is not about Holocaust camps.
My great grandfather was deported from Western Estonia to Kolyma, and he eventually died in Magadan. A nice 11,000 km journey to imprisonment and death. Pleasures of living next to this fundamentally sick state.
As a relative, according to Russian lawyou have the right to request his personal case, to learn about his faith. It may take a month or two, but you will learn about him more. Good luck
In Soviet times you didn't have to move out id your territory to make a living, people actually had jobs and population of Baltic States grew significantly, unlike now you just dying off just like most of former Soviet republics.
my great grandfather was in gulag, guards lined up prisoners to execute them with guns and out of all prisoners they missed to my great grandfather he pretended to be dead for hours until he had a chance to escape and he escaped, he spend months trying to get back to Lithuania, but he came back and created a family and because of that here I am writing this comment.
@@blackpoolbootz2790 --- . . . and do not forget to LEAVE OUT the facts about the weather, so that you can misrepresent Stalin as a Communist with Supernatural Powers.
Another brutal gulag was in Norilsk. The officer core of the Lithuanian, Estonian, and Lativan army were sent to their deaths there along with many Soviet bureaucrats who were viewed as enemies of the state.
Giant steel scythe blades were mounted on the undersides of the last carriages of the prisoner transport trains; these were so that any prisoner destined for the GULAGs that attempted to escape by means of pulling up the wood planks making up the floor of the car in an effort of dropping onto the tracks and waiting for the train to pass safely overhead, would be cut in half laterally once the train passed. ....That is of course, assuming you were lucky enough to be destined for a GULAG in the first place. Historians are aware of at least two alleged accounts of where up to 2,000 prisoners were herded onto an old ferry, locked in holds on the lower decks, then sailed out to sea and deliberately sunk through the use of scuttling charges so that all drowned en masse. People were starved so thoroughly that many resorted to picking out the corn and barely husks out of feces and eating it. It got so bad, a type of barter exchange dealing specifically in this type of commodity developed inside some of the GULAGs, and others (the most brutal), some of the most desperate prisoners resorted to cannibalsim. And in the end, modern analysis indicates the GULAGs never even achieved Stalin's supposed "self sufficient" economic model -- that is to say, he claimed the genius behind them was that they would pay for their own upkeep, and/or achieve his goals at a more cost-efficient rate than would running them with standard paid labor -- because there was no real incentive to meet one's quotas in most cases (doing so only kept you on a less intensive form of starvation rations), and so meant progress was often stunted by the frequent death of the most experienced laborers in technically inclined jobs; as the video said, "after three months, we don't need you anymore". The White Sea-Baltic Canal was another example of this failure; after the deaths of anywhere from 12,000-25,000 people (that number being directly from the Soviets' own official estimates, which in turn would be kept deliberately low to avoid international condemnation should the subject ever be discovered later on, as things like the Katyn massacre did) and possibly up to 250,000 people (as the estimate per Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a GULAG survivor), the Canal didn't even serve its primary intended purpose because it was dug too narrow and too shallow to support the traffic of the ships it was intended from the get-go to transport. It is utterly incomprehensible to me how, in the modern era, Stalin isn't as widely regarded as being every bit as Hitler is, even apparently in Russia itself. It's absolutely unbelievable.
I only mentioned his figures to give another general upper figure (in keeping with pretty much standard reporting practices for losses in major events across history from earthquakes to medieval battles in any country that has ever existed), but even so, it's amusing to me is that both of you immediately ignore the fact that I also cited to the Soviet government's own records in this very same matter, but you completely ignored that as if it didn't exist. The video we're commenting on used film footage taken of the gulags and the corpses therein, ALSO by the Soviet government. All of this information was not widely known until the Soviet Government itself began declassifying its own archives and began releasing the documents and files their own operatives collected to the world about what they have now admitted was happening during those times. Let me guess: Next I suppose you'll try to have me believe all of that was somehow smuggled in by anti-Soviet Western imperialist spies that managed to infiltrate their seat of government, plant literally buildings full of incriminating documents and archival film footage inside of, all without the Russian security service ever knowing, and not finding out until after they had tragically and unknowingly already admitted full responsibility to many of these crimes. Your brand of humor, although strange, is pretty rich gentlemen, and it was indeed worth a good laugh. Y'all have a merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
@@TheShockwaveDragon Mate, ignore them. You could mention Solzhenytsin, Shalamov, and the accounts of a thousand other survivors of Gulag, and it will always be antisoviet propaganda, no matter how compelling the evidence, no matter how extensive the documentation. Stalin is a hero, that is the official line of the Russian government and a belief of many Russians. Let me elucidate with a joke: a man who believed he was dead was committed to an institution. The doctors went to great lengths to prove that he is alive, because he would not eat or drink, as dead people don't need food or water, but the man would not budge. Finally one doctor asked: Do dead people bleed? The patient replied, after they have been dead for some time, of course no, the blood has congealed, and the heart is not functioning anymore. The doctor then proceeded to prick the patient's finger and show him that it is bleeding. The patient looked at the finger in awe and exclaimed 'what do you know, dead people do bleed after all'! Don't waste your effort.
It's hard to tell who was really worse, Stalin or Hitler. When get into their numbers of murdered it's hard to tell. Stalin has better press even today. I was aware of the horrors of Gulag after reading Solzhenitsyn' s Gulag Archipelago; a distressing book to read as he somehow survived the Gulag.
Like the Katyn Massacre that was blamed on Germany for over 50 years with our help...only to have Putin admit Russian blame more recently. How could Poland ever forgive...even now?
@@M167A1 almost like giving few people in power too much of it always produces terrible results, especially when that ideology requires someone to be afraid of
@@M167A1 yeah its an invalid question. Theyre both worse than the other in multiple ways. They both believed & were the main propagators of an extremely evil ideology. Both are the worst you can get pretty much. Same w that goebbels guy.
You could add to the list the mines of Jáchymov (former Tchechoslovakia) where the prisonners were extracting raw pechblende which contain uranium and radium in diverse concentrations. No need to tell what was the life expectancy of people handling raw radio-active materials.......
How terrible! Oh wait, people worked in uranium mines in all countries under the same conditions, without proper protection. In the US, it was until the mid-60s, where government and corporate health warnings were ignored because uranium is more important than human lives.
A decade long sentence but life expectancy was 3 months, after that prisoners were refared to as 'goners' so they got all the work out them they could within 3 months then the dead were replaced with new prisoners brought in for just saying "Stalin should slow down with his 5 yrs plan abit" that would get somebody report you to the NKVD and 10 yrs in a siberian gulag where a shift was a constant 16 hours that could be amended to 20 yrs if needed? 🤣🤣🤣 I'll never complain about the universal credit workprogram again!!
Step 8 Reznov FREEDOM! For you mason, not for me! Jokes aside, The Gulags were a hell pit and I appreciate your channel delving more into their horrid history, cheers
No , one lie has been told about Solovki . Everything else is about the same , but my knowledge of English does not allow me to be one hundred percent sure of this .
If anything, Reznov and Mason were extremely lucky to escape Vorkuta. From what I heard, even if you could escape the prison camp, the extreme cold weather would kill you so escape was nearly impossible and pointless. My guess is Vorkuta had a rare "sunny' day at the time
Reading through the comments, even after the facts are there for all to see and the USSR is dead and buried -- I get the feeling there's still a few wannabe concentration camp guards and administrators here.
@@xbox1286 why does anybody denying the existance of the system have cyrillic in their username? Cold it be caused by the same reason as why most defending nazism have some blatant dog whistles in theirs.
Not defending communism but capitalism is the biggest lie. Communism can kill you but capitalism can make you struggle in a way that makes you wanna kill yourself.
@@maxb9315 how do you opt out of it no matter we’re you go your gonna be taxed and have to work for a boss that pays you half of what they make nothing is perfect capitalism nor communism we need something that transcends human ideology we need a god to lead us into a new age of green and peace
My uncle was arrested by the Stasi and thrown into a copper mine gulag for 3 years. They pulled him from his home beat him in front of his family and drove him away. He never got a trial. They worked these people to the point of death. What did my uncle do? He did the unthinkable act of speaking out against the Soviet regime.
Serves him right for treasonous thoughts against the great starlin and the unbreakable regime he’s lucky they were forgiving to only give him 3 years for such a crime
@@SpaceMonkeyBoi What's truly scary is that a LOT of people nowadays seem to fit that description. Long gone are the days of debates and exchange of ideas, now it's me vs. you, with no possible compromise.
@@albertojoseyanespantin2803 when society gets to that point, useful idiots elect dictators that instill a century of suffering onto the country, then those same idiots realize what they've done when it's all too late. Like the Germans all those years ago. You know how it is: In the world of politics, people only learn when people die, and sometimes even mass death and hellish conditions doesn't open people's eyes. Some people will hide in a corner with their ears plugged by their fingers as they're surrounded by bodies.
My grandfather was sent to a siberian gulag.. and came back. Many people lost so many relatives, almost entire bloodlines of some families were lost. R.I.P to the ones that lost their lives.
My great grandfather was sent to GULAG, he spent 10 years there for just a being a homeguard. Came back alive. Soviets locked up there not just russians... Thats why im curious why Germany was the only evil in ww2 and soviets even didnt pay for their crimes.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э home guard could mean any country. Britain had a home guard and it was just people who were unfit to actually go out and fight so they setup a defence in case of invasion. Plus being arrested is very different to being sent to a gulag.
@@harryeyre1322 the fact that he complains about the USSR means that he was in Nazi-occupied territory. The Nazis actively formed "self-defense" detachments from local collabrationists to fight the resistance and help in the genocide. And he said about "ten years". In 1955, the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On the amnesty of Soviet citizens who collaborated with the invaders during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" was issued. "Plus being arrested is very different to being sent to a gulag." I will disappoint you, but no. The Gulag is a common country prison administration, like the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the United States. No prisons were called that.
My great grandfather was deported to soviet labor camp after Latvia’s “””liberation””” by the Soviet Union. His wife, my great grand mother, died shortly after due to having to work so much just to meet early post wat quotas. My grandfather was an orphan hence.
Deportations of latvian families started weak before germans liberated Latvia from communists, so u can understand what happened later People angered and full with revange joined germans as theyre liberators from this red terror. That was reaction against soviet humiliation and full time unarmed latvian civilian shotings,rape and deportations. Alot of latvians thought that this red terror would end so they wilingly joined waffen ss and fought alongside germans against communists. There was alot of families, older family members that was sick of this represion and nonsense killing so they wanted to take revange on communists and joined german forces. Latvians understood that there are two evils, both regimes were evil... But they had to choose lesser evil. They marched to the front for 30km a day and nobody deserted, nobody. From other Latvian battalions everyone came . However, it indicates a very correct mood. They went and sang - ''let's beat them red and then those in bluish-gray. Germans didn`t touch them , because they knew they won`t go to other side. That was clear as a water.
I had a girlfriend, the daughter of Latvian immigrants. Her mother experienced WW2 and it's aftermath. She said that compared to the Soviets, the Nazis were angels.
@@randycook2170 Literally almost anyone who survived WW2 and post WW2 Latvia says that. Considering nazis were far from angels, you can only imagine how terrible the soviets were.
I have family that was sent to Solovetsky, Magadan and other camps in Kolyma. My great grandfather was a Moldovan-Ukrainean and also was sent to Magadan. Miraculously he came back after 16 years, my whole family thought he was long dead. His only crime was being a Ukrainean farmer. He survived Magadan by pretending to be a doctor for 5 years and never working in the mines. He was a very interesting man, he was well established before communism and well established after communism and being sent to Gulag some how. On my moms side my great-grandmothers whole family was deported to Solovetsky they were also Ukrainian farmers who resisted the communist. The communists came to there land and took all of there food, livestock, land and possessions. This didnt work the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time they did this, each time they recovered and built the farms back. So they were all sent to gulag and none of them ever came back. Only my great-grandmother who was a girl came back because her aunt traded the jewelry and sex for the guard to sneak her in the boat so she wouldn’t go to Solovetsky.
In his book, "Tortured for Christ", Richard Wurmbrand relates many of the agonizing years he endured as a prisoner of the Soviet system. Kidnapped by the KGB, he was torn away from his family and spent the next 14 years in a 5 by 8 cell that was 30 feet under the ground where he endured endless unmentionable tortures. They beat the bottom of his feet with rubber hoses hard enough that he was never able to walk properly again. IT WAS HELL ON EARTH! In the 1960's, Swedish Christians found out where he was, and 'bought' him from the USSR. I personally heard him speak in 1974, and my life was never the same. His message: "Imagine if you could talk to a baby in the womb. You say, 'Hi baby. How are you doing?' The baby answers: 'Good, but I have hands, but cannot use them; I have eyes, yet cannot see; I have feet, but cannot walk.' And you answer: 'Yes, I know, but they are not for THIS world. They are for the world to come!" HERE IS THE PROGRESS OF LIFE. LIFE begins at conception -- 9 in the womb; 90 in the world; then in the WHEREVER FOREVER! In John 14:6, Jesus said: I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE!! NO MAN comes to the Father but by ME!! THE FINAL PHASE IS CRITICAL! IT IS FOREVER!! DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD!
There is a documentary on stalin on UA-cam that is over 3 hours long. I've watched it over 50 times. It is the best doc I've ever seen. Anne applebaum does very good presentations of Soviet life. Gulag archipelago is an amazing work, but I doubt most modern young Americans could grasp it.
@@savoirfaire3469 lol, the answer to not having communism isn't to teach people how bad communism is. The answer to not having communism is doing something to fix the problems that make people think they want communism. There's no way around fixing some things
@@SamBrickell this kind of thinking is exactly what made people say that slaves would be happy if abolitionists weren't putting stupid "freedom" ideas in their heads, or that black people during the civil rights movement would be fine with things if uppity people like MLK weren't talking about "rights". No, if you remove democrats, immigrants (not even sure how they fit in), and the media then we wouldnt suddenly be in a magical utopia sir. The problems in people's lives are real, they aren't made up and you would know that if you actually listened or if you had an ounce of compassion for people who think differently than you
Socialism without the scruples of democracy I would agree wholeheartedly. There is a reason no Socialist/Communist state was ever a good place to live and that is because, by human nature power became concentrated in a few people. If it were a democratic system, say the Federalist system with Socialist like tendencies (better social programs, universal basic income and other such programs) then I believe it may work.
Tell me what does gulag system have anything to do with communism. Stalin was sick man who used communist ideals to enslave millions. In no way were gulags a part of communism. It's like saying capitalism is bad because Nazi Germany used money...
Such a barbaric act. You'd think it was fiction but nah it's all real. Shows you just how terrifying and dark real history can be. Hell believe it or not but real history is my biggest source for my worldbuilding fiction.
I have limited knowledge of the gulag system. But recently someone I know lead a tour of musical acts through Europe and one of the venues was a club that was previously part of a gulag in Estonia. I think the story of the gulags is gut wrenching. I’d like to see the film industry explore this. Thanks for making this video.
watch the movie called "mrJones" and you will realize the actual reason why no one knows of the holodomor. marxists do not want the evils of their ideology put on display. pulitzer prize winning 'journalist' walter duranty helped to censor information coming out of the soviet union and cover up the atrocities. the next obvious question, 'why would he do such a thing?' answer: he was an obvious communist himself. btw, it's still happening today.
@@Alexander-jk9qz my great grandma legit fleed the soviet union She said that life in the East was worse then in the west She used to live in Belarus minsk
I have family that was sent to Solovetsky, Magadan and other camps in Kolyma. My great grandfather was a Moldovan-Ukrainean and also was sent to Magadan. Miraculously he came back after 16 years, my whole family thought he was long dead. His only crime was being a Ukrainean farmer. He survived Magadan by pretending to be a doctor for 5 years and never working in the mines. He was a very interesting man, he was well established before communism and well established after communism and being sent to Gulag some how. On my moms side my great-grandmothers whole family was deported to Solovetsky they were also Ukrainian farmers who resisted the communist. The communists came to there land and took all of there food, livestock, land and possessions. This didnt work the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time they did this, each time they recovered and built the farms back. So they were all sent to gulag and none of them ever came back. Only my great-grandmother who was a girl came back because her aunt traded the jewelry and sex for the guard to sneak her in the boat so she wouldn’t go to Solovetsky.
For really good and depressing lecture on the subject, i recomend A World Apart by Gulag survivor Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, who managed to survive only thanks to amnesty Stalin was giving Poles so they could fight Germans after agreement with the Allies
if i had to choose between working to death for a government i fought against and were punished by or kill my self i would take the latter. why live and suffer just to help something u tried to destroy ??
Exactly! Before I was too weak, I'd try to take out as many guards and administrators as I could. I'd basically continue my fight. The only good commie, is a dead commie imo.
@@_wanted_outlaw3007 Particular bravery in war could even be particularly dangerous. Before individual awards were given, the cadre file of the soldier was checked and anyone who did not have an absolutely clean cadre file there, was not given a medal but was sent to the Gulag.
The pictures of camps and cattle cars as well as the accounts of what happened reminds me of the holocaust. It’s weird tho bc schools (at least in New York) heavily focus on the holocaust barely touching what happened with the gulags
So Its safe to assume you were never taught about the "holodomor" then? A bigger atrocity in terms of loss of life @ between 20 and 40 million, yet......
@@craigharrison6662 I’m American, most of us probably don’t learn about holodomor unless you took an elective called Holocaust or a relating class. However many of us learn history ourselves, don’t think that all us Americans don’t know about our worlds recent history.
I am not anti-Semitic but Jewish companies put massive funding into teaching the Holocaust. In the UK they pay for history teachers to go to Auschivitz
@@eddypowell2308 --- FINISH SPEAKING. | You have not completed your deep thought about "they" teaching about the right-wing-sponsored Holocaust. Speak up.
Suppose it depends where you're from?... I'm from Ireland and we learned about this in school when studying the Russian Revolution, WWII and the Cold War.
Excellent presentation. After hearing about Soviet Gulag for many years it was too horrifying to lean the details. Now though in your program it's been less brutal than reading the Gulag Archipelago which I have put of for decades, so many thanks for your well handled commentary.
the gulag archipelago is graphomaniac nonsense, so that you understand the quality of the video at 53 seconds of the imperial hard labor, also in the form of a lot of cartoons from the times of perestroika
@@xbox1286 Mmmm. That means only an impulse to write. Not so difficult to understand the motivation after those folks unfortunately encarerated were forced to endure. Do you resent them for writing of their experiences or is what they recall inaccurate? .
Man. It appears that Germany, Russia, and Japan never received their copy of the Geneva Convention. Brutal stuff. BTW, Have a very happy holiday and new year, my friend !
Germany followed the Geneva convention for prisoners of war from the western allies, as they had signed it. But the Soviets haven't hence why all prisoners on the eastern front was treated a lot worse.
@@hnorrstrom The whole scale objective of operation Barbossa was the extermination of slavs to create the living space for hitler aryans,they didnt just invade the soviet to hold hands and sing kumbaya
Well that’s because they didn’t sign it. (Except Germany) Kinda unrealistic to expect a country to adhere to an agreement they didn’t make The Nazis mostly honored the agreement on the western front, but didn’t on the eastern front for that very reason. Why give the Soviets special considerations they have no intention of giving you? This is one of the reasons Hitler referred to the Bolsheviks as barbarians, and he believed that brutality must be met with greater brutality
So I saw a comment saying that under the Gulag trains, they would have giant blades to cut people in half if they tried to escape from the trains floors, can anyone confirm this?
@@charliebeareuwu I mean we're talking about trains in Siberia.. They all had Giant blades in the front and back of the trains to plow snow. Would be a pretty easy way to scare people who don't know better..
Putin warned for 15 years if NATO military activity was at Russia's border he will view as threat and respond militarily, so he saw ukraine joining NATO as threat to Russia, as NATO can easily place military hardware. But his warnings got ignored. How would you feel if Cuba allied with Russia and Russia had troops and missiles there?
@@monteniggrianCRUSHER your talking like Ukraine is still a state of Russia it's its own country they wanted to join nato plus putin has always wanted to get Ukraine he wants to bring back the whole soviet Union I saw let the people of Ukraine Decide what they want to do not nato or Russia
"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.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
"Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, " Already at this point, any sane person will understand that Solzhenitsyn is nothing more than an idiot, unable to come up with any plausible lie.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э Thats some fertile imagination considering he wrote 3 volumes that were each subdivided into 2 parts. Also, there have been many other writings besides Solzhenitsyn about the atrocities of Stalin. Bill, here, just scratched the surface. ua-cam.com/video/h5QTjg2HI5Y/v-deo.html&ab_channel=TruthRevoltOriginals Enjoy, Comrade.
Solzhenitsyn did not work in the archives. All his works are fiction and lies designed to discredit the Soviet system. "Archipelag GULAG" - fiction. In Russia, people consider Sozhenitsyn a liar and a traitor. By the way, Solzhenitsyn betrayed his best friend (childhood friend) and first wife too. The peoples of the former USSR consider the science fiction writer Solzhenitsyn a scum, becouse there is also his indirect role in the collapse of the USSR. It's another matter that the modern bourgeois authorities of the Russian Federation really need a writer like Solzhenitsyn and others like him, becouse Solzhenitsyn's delirium seems to justify the actions of the current government, which robbes the workers, seizes common enterprizes, row material, land, ect.
@@dumler_nvvb everyone: behold the power of the Russian education/indoctrination school system. There are many other writers and sources that talk about the atrocities of the Soviet Union. Just keep in mind that Stalin killed more Russian Commies than Hitler did.
My grandfather was send to Siberia..he served for 6y and returned back home.. I think my grandma and his 2very young children were the only reason he survived and kept going..
most of the GULAG prisoners were ordinary criminals. 97.5% of Soviet people were not affected in any way by political repression. The number of deaths in the Gulag during its entire existence was less than one and a half million (900 thousand of which died in 41-45), while more than 11 million died in Nazi concentration camps.
Well, I feel bad for poor Americans, who cannot afford good food and place to sleep, but can afford drugs. Also, why so many private prisons with so many prisoners?
All these edgy college kids who call themselves "communists" need to learn about this! Communism is not a viable form of government. Capitalism isn't perfect, but its the best we can get
To be fair Stalin wasnt a communist. He was a stalinist. Communism teaches human rights, fair pay and distribution of wealth. Stalin was the exact opposite
@@cn2673 you're wrong I'm right. He didn't follow the practices. It's regarded as stalinist because he changed it. It doesn't change the facts whether he was called that before, during or after. The facts are the facts.
According to Solzhenitsyn, the Kolyma camp was absolutely the worst. Gold had been discovered and in the early 30s Stalin decided to start exploiting the mining resources. The descriptions of the life conditions are simply atrocious. Then I think, we the humans are so proud of the civilizations we built, the great achievements in the arts, intellect, technology, spirituality. We really feel we are the best of the bestest. This is sheer delusion drenched in megalomaniac arrogance, predatory cruelty and the abomination of our being. Animals are much more moral and ethical then us. They are part of nature. We are not. We are savages bent on the destruction of our world in a delirium of omnipotence.
My Opa spent 45 to 48 in a Soviet gulag in Siberia, Then My Uncle Immo was sent to a Soviet gulag. He was involved in the Spring Uprising in the 50s. He spent 3 years in a copper mine In inhumane conditions. He performed slave labor. There was a 50% death rate.
@@TheFront Or maybe it's enough to stop see Solzhenitsyn as the truth and start reading people who are much more competent and did not suffer from the desire to make a name and money for themselves? Like Nikolai Zemskov, who worked for years with the documents of the NKVD and the government and established the exact number of prisoners and victims of the Gulag? Surprise, but their number is much less than "tens of millions of innocents."
Hitler had lost his mind somewhere in WW1 or in between watching Germany slide into shame and poverty after the war....his extremism had a foundation in pure hatred. Stalin grew up in a merciless and impoverished class of Russians under the thumb of Imperial Russian rule. What he witnessed growing up and what he did to prepare himself for his leadership role was unvarnished and unapologetic. Stalin carried Russia out of Imperial corruption and was seen as the man in charge that won WW2. It is hard to tell Russians even today that he was a bad person. Another perspective has to be that he sent people to the gulag that he thought were not worthy of living in his newly created communist nation ( remember he kept paper logs and ledgers of every single person sent to the gulags ) There was a vision of purifying the country of people who were seen as tainted by anything that was opposite to the new ideal. That ideal may have failed in the end but at that time in the 1930's it was a fever to pursue a perfect society based on socialst simplicity. It was a dream that they couldn't see clearly only hoped for the best with. Killing people was considered immaterial. If you were living inside of communist Russia at the time you had to have a right to be alive. That wasn't a right written in law. It was how you looked, how you spoke, how you acted.....decisions you made that came from who you were. It could be taken at any moment from you. Were you white Russian ? Did you sympathize with the old ways ? Were you an intellectual ? If so did you believe thoroughly in communism ? Maybe not ? You can consider yourseld dead. That's how it went. Foreign ethnic group or minority ? Dead. Of no worth. It is perception of worth and value to society. Stalin's rule was an example of a ruler that had no doubts about his decisions. It may have been cruel...it may have been brutal.....but it wasn't at the expense of corrupt rulers who bleed the entire nation. It was just a percentage of the nation under Stalin. Yes everyone was affected but not everyone was starved as under Imperial rule. Stalin knew things were bad and food was not available for everyone but he didn't say ' I don't care let everyone in the nation starve ' . That would have generated another revolution. He was perceived as trying to do something about it. It wasn't perfect and it didn't work well at times but.....it was an effort. Those that got sent to the penal system were a ' percentage " of the population.....not the entire population. Imperial Russia allowed everyone to starve....the entire nation of human beings was the penal system
Simon --- CORRECT. | Be careful when telling Truth and Facts about monarchy, most people fear Freedom and Liberty, because they mark the person as an adult.
How can a person say witch camp was the worse! All of them must have been pure hell . I couldn't imagine spending one day there how can we continue to treat each other this way? We are a cruel Animal shame on us all ..
After reading the comments , I am so disappointed that anyone can in all good conscience say that anything that happened in the camps to be a good thing and people were deserving of this treatment. What is wrong in some of your minds.
Terrorists, bandits, rapists, murderers, thieves, pedophiles, Nazi collaborators and other such criminals deserve to be treated well? I am more disappointed by mass pathological laziness and naive belief in Solzhenitsyn's lies.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э not talking about them! Talking about millions of people who did NOTHING but disagree with the state, put to death! You are just as sick as them!
Communism, has a short history and a big impact on human suffering. This is not isolated to The USSR shit like this is happening in North Korea today the killing fields of Cambodia, Chairman Mao's policies all of which basically said fascist hold my beer. These days I do not see people arguing against the methods or the atrocities just on who's list of people who should be liquidated. The lesson is not the other guy did it worse the lesson is this is what happens when there is an authoritarianism power structure that has little controls on what it can and can not do history has seen this play out in many forms of government from monarchy's, Fascist, dictatorships, theocracies. It makes me happy when I see people protesting and resisting fascism, but then I often see people in those crowds waving hammer and sickle or other communist symbols and then I get angry because if you can hate fascist for their crimes against humanity then those hammer and sickles ought to be condemned and shunned as much as any swastika it does not make sense to me to hate on a fascist then allow a communist to Allie themselves with the group. With all the promises of equality the reality is your equally worthless.
16 hour work days?! Damn whenever I feel ungrateful, I always stumble upon videos like these. Not that enjoy them but I sit in awe and just think. Think how I have it easy and that my long work days don't compare to hell like this. Those poor souls were forced to do that as punishment...
There was that gulag on an island in central Russia where they dumped a bunch of prisoners but didn't supply them with any shelter or food. They resulted in cannibalisms, often just eating parts of living prisoners.
The only thing just as a bad as this was Nazino Island where not only did u have deal with the guards and Weather killing you. It was the other fellow prisoners that would both kill and EAT YOU!
I read "The Gulag Archipelago". Solzhenitsyn relates how the prisoners would catch rats to supplement the meager food rations. The Soviets had a particular hatred of "the Bourgeoisie", so they rounded up all of the intellectuals, professors, business owners, etc., anyone who they thought were a threat to their communist ideology. My ex wife's mom was living in Latvia at the time of the Soviet annexation of the Baltics. Her family owned several mercantile establishments. She told us, with tears in her eyes, of the night that they were raided, of running through the woods being chased by Red Army soldiers armed with AK's. She escaped, but my exes' great uncle was captured, and sent to the gulags, where he died.
@@brunodrweski3689 if his memoirs and experiences are to be ignored bcoz he lacks a specific university degree in history, then what does that say of u?
I lived in riviera maya In Mexico and got over 325 mosquito bites in one night, happened to be 4th of July! Next day had a fever and my ankles were so swollen and soar! Had to get this cream and steroids Was crazy!
Why is it the schools will constantly teach about the holocaust but genocides like this barely have a mention? I geuss the Holodomor and communist persecution are not considered as sexy.
I get the Russian autocracy before Lenin and Stalin were out of touch with the average peasant. but was Tsar Nicholas II as brutal as his soviet counterparts?
@@bmuller7471 now you just smoking crack or you think Tsar Russia was more extreme or the same as Soviet Union or are you just questioning it was? Also to your answer you would be better off in Tsar Russia then Soviet Russia.
Before Stalin took his last breath it was noted whiteness by his staff. As he sat up he was looking at the darkened window as he pointed at the window his mouth opened and he began to shake his eyes opened wide unable to speak with the most horrific expression on his face he then fell back and died. This tells me that because of the actions that he oversaw maybe it was SATIN himself that he saw coming in to claim his soul
I wonder if they gaslighted them and told them they're just trying to keep them safe, like we have nowadays, in the worldwide electro-gulag that's escalating nowadays.
Thanks for posting this video. Several of my relatives died in the Gulag. Many people recall or know about the Nazi camps and that is right; too few seem to know about the Soviet ones.
9:07: A really interesting use of torture, and one that really fascinates me... wonder if it's listed or not in the Geneva Conventions? As godforsakenly inhumane as possible, up to the point that putting them into words might make it either X-rated or even not putting it the proper justice. Can't tell... but in the end, Vorkuta is most likely the more familiar one, albeit for different reasons.
The three month life span wasn’t happenstance. There’s a reason they did it that way. All of this and all they are doing now is not just killing us but humiliating us as well. It’s a big part of communism. Not just Chinese communism. But all of communism. All levels from commune to socialism to communism it’s all subjugation and submission. ie go on strike. Get shot? Or work to death. Pick your death. But your gonna die. They might have planned better. Or not. But at least try to over power one and get his gun. Use your tools.
could you please do a video on the Falklands war of 1982 as there was an interesting story of the Argentinian frontline bombers attempting to attack British shipping and ending up getting shot down by sea harriers?
Harriers shot down lots of Argentine Skyhawks and Mirages. The Skyhawks attacked so low their bombs weren’t fused properly and were dropped too low to go off
@@chrismartin3197 Sea harriers we’re credited with shooting down 29% of all aerial kills in the falklands and sea harriers shot down a aregentian c130j and Canberra bomber
@@billyjones6626 i believe he's referring to 'covid containment camps' where they are going to send unvaccinated people like they are doing in Australia. Haven't checked articles on this but thats what I think he's talking about. Australia IS doing this, not 100% sure on Canada tho
At Kolyma the temps often got to -90°F. Breakfast for these prisoners was a cup of tea and 10 g of sugar. I had soup for dinner and that was it. It was an extermination camp just like Auschwitz but without the gas chambers.
The Vice President of the United States. Henry Wallace, said Kolyma was a fine place after he visited there in 1944. Perhaps Wallace could be forgiven for being duped---but clearly Henry Wallace saw only what Henry Wallace wanted to see anyway.
When I was at school during the 1980s left leaning teachers liked to point out how quickly the Soviet Union modernized as evidence of how advanced communism was.
Paul Smith --- THINK IT THROUGH | Correct, and compare the disappeared U.S.S.R. with the primitive, Third World conditions in which the majority of workers live and toil in the U.S.A. of A.D. 2022, because living wages (food and shelter) are . . . Communism.
@@twt000 --- After the Big War, the U.S. were busy reinstating Blacks into Jim Crow subordination, whilst the Communists were rebuilding the U.S.S.R. and building rockets and spacecraft and artificial satellites, and THAT RACISM is how and why the U.S. "fell behind" in the "space race".
@@twt000 soviets and Americans had also both kidnapped German engineers and scientists. Communism wasn’t advancing anything besides in death, evil and brutality.
1:12 imagine if that guy simply threw Stalin overboard to drown. 30 million more fathers and mothers and children would’ve lived. What if one of those sent to the gulags was the person to invent a cure for cancer? How different the world would’ve been.
Prisoners cut off their hands to get some rest. I can see it. When I worked at a Saw Mill I wanted to accidently shoot myself in the foot to get a break from the work load. Problem was i did not know where to place the shot so I'd make a full recovery.
All this shit happened and the world did little to nothing. But hey, let's make kids listen for the trillionth time in school how bad the Nazis and Japanese were.
My grandfather was a pow of the russians after he got captured in Stalingrad. He was a sniper for the Wehrmacht. Spent 8 years in a POW Gulag in siberia before he and two finish guys escaped. It wasnt pretty
Its isane how some people still admire and defend Stalin's Soviet Union. If they only could experience it by themselves....
To be fair, it was better when you were the pleb who never had to live in a Gulag.
Yeah, it's definitely insane. I have spoken with a few neo-communist types and they are some of the worst people I have ever met.
Some of them even go so far as to say that everyone who was enslaved, imprisoned, tortured or murdered by men like Lenin and Stalin deserved it-and then gleefully call for more blood and death.
You'd think we'd be at a point where we can all agree that slavery and murder are wrong, but apparently not. Some people still seem to think those things are okay as long as it isn't the West or the Nazis who are doing it.
@@warrioroflight6872 It's the same rhetoric I hear Everytime I bring up the damaged Businesses from BLM riots saying they too deserved it
Nobody Defends Anything. But there are MANY LIES that are going around about Soviet Union. These lies got set by USA
@@jxsxn5892 Another Denier of the Gulags detected.
The amount of Neo-Communists brigading the comment section and saying that what was discussed in this video is a good thing deeply concerns me.
Then they arent neo communists but more the old guard ML Still comrades, neo communis are sjws who think sweden is socialist
@@militaristaustrian I'm pretty sure the American right thinks Sweden is a socialist country.
Everyone talks about neo-Nazis, and they should.
But nobody really talks about Holodomor deniers, Stalin stans, and people very fond of the phrase “CIA propaganda”
@@Johnthecollie yes
Very concerning
It disturbs me that some people deny what happened in the gulags or that they even happened. Do not forgive those that excuse this history.
I have spoken with some of those people. Unsurprisingly, they are always very rude, arrogant, and bigoted and sometimes even embrace the mass slaughter, saying that it's okay to kill people who are opposed to the "glorious and happy ways of our leaders Lenin".
It's sick and demented to the core. I still don't get why they seem to think I'll join them if they insult me enough. Maybe they're all still in elementary school.
You have to be almost as stupid as a flat-earther to deny the bloodsoaked history of Communism with all the evidence of it in every country it was tried. I still have a whole lot to learn about the history of the USSR, but what I've read and watched so far was worse than I could have even imagined.
I Support it but im Borderline a fascist so yeah
Whoopi Goldberg just got on TV saying the holocaust wasn't about race lol
Nazists, Communists, Capitalists..
All just the worst of the sewer that is humanity..
But true, sadly we in the west tend to downplay the beast from the east..
Communists are not people.
Imagine being the guy who survived a Nazi concentration camp only to be moved into a gulag later
You want to look for Witold Pilecki then
That would be so sad...
after the Nazi concentration camp, any prison will be paradise. As for the GULAG, it was there, in the camp hospital, that in 1952 Solzhenitsyn was operated on for a cancerous tumor. And, what a surprise, he did not die and lived to be 90 years old.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э working at - 50 C without proper clothing on starvation rations and absurd quotas, and under constant threat of summary execution if you did not meet them. Getting abused and humiliated not only by the prison guards, but by criminal inmates. Resorting to looting buried corpses of civilians for clothing and cannibalism for meat not out of the question. Hint: this is not about Holocaust camps.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э get away with that commie shit. That places were crime against humanity
My great grandfather was deported from Western Estonia to Kolyma, and he eventually died in Magadan. A nice 11,000 km journey to imprisonment and death. Pleasures of living next to this fundamentally sick state.
@Andrew-~ Dunno probs Estonia 🤣
@@Г.Георгий Estonia. As I said, my great grandfather was from Western Estonia.
Im from Latvia, we too suffered massively under that sick regime. Stay strong Eesti brothers🤜🤛
As a relative, according to Russian lawyou have the right to request his personal case, to learn about his faith. It may take a month or two, but you will learn about him more. Good luck
In Soviet times you didn't have to move out id your territory to make a living, people actually had jobs and population of Baltic States grew significantly, unlike now you just dying off just like most of former Soviet republics.
my great grandfather was in gulag, guards lined up prisoners to execute them with guns and out of all prisoners they missed to my great grandfather he pretended to be dead for hours until he had a chance to escape and he escaped, he spend months trying to get back to Lithuania, but he came back and created a family and because of that here I am writing this comment.
Good shit Lil Meep, good shit. Fuck those communists.
Wow
Noice lil meep
You are, lucky …. 👍🏻
Your great granddad was a true survivor hats off to the man :)
I never learned about the atrocities under Stalin, all I heard was Soviets helped win the War. I need to educate myself in this more
From the Boomers down to Gen-Z, we've all been feeding on the lies and war-era Allied propaganda. It's sickening.
Dont forget WW2 was started by nazis and communists TOGETHER by invading Poland
Katyn Forest massacre is a good starting point.
Check out the Ukrainian famine as well under Stalin.
@@blackpoolbootz2790 --- . . . and do not forget to LEAVE OUT the facts about the weather, so that you can misrepresent Stalin as a Communist with Supernatural Powers.
Another brutal gulag was in Norilsk. The officer core of the Lithuanian, Estonian, and Lativan army were sent to their deaths there along with many Soviet bureaucrats who were viewed as enemies of the state.
Bureaucrats sent there you say?
Norilsk was terrible the most far north city in the world they still find body’s today in the mines
Baisu
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@@chancebrock289 great...i might go it sounds cool
Giant steel scythe blades were mounted on the undersides of the last carriages of the prisoner transport trains; these were so that any prisoner destined for the GULAGs that attempted to escape by means of pulling up the wood planks making up the floor of the car in an effort of dropping onto the tracks and waiting for the train to pass safely overhead, would be cut in half laterally once the train passed.
....That is of course, assuming you were lucky enough to be destined for a GULAG in the first place. Historians are aware of at least two alleged accounts of where up to 2,000 prisoners were herded onto an old ferry, locked in holds on the lower decks, then sailed out to sea and deliberately sunk through the use of scuttling charges so that all drowned en masse.
People were starved so thoroughly that many resorted to picking out the corn and barely husks out of feces and eating it. It got so bad, a type of barter exchange dealing specifically in this type of commodity developed inside some of the GULAGs, and others (the most brutal), some of the most desperate prisoners resorted to cannibalsim.
And in the end, modern analysis indicates the GULAGs never even achieved Stalin's supposed "self sufficient" economic model -- that is to say, he claimed the genius behind them was that they would pay for their own upkeep, and/or achieve his goals at a more cost-efficient rate than would running them with standard paid labor -- because there was no real incentive to meet one's quotas in most cases (doing so only kept you on a less intensive form of starvation rations), and so meant progress was often stunted by the frequent death of the most experienced laborers in technically inclined jobs; as the video said, "after three months, we don't need you anymore".
The White Sea-Baltic Canal was another example of this failure; after the deaths of anywhere from 12,000-25,000 people (that number being directly from the Soviets' own official estimates, which in turn would be kept deliberately low to avoid international condemnation should the subject ever be discovered later on, as things like the Katyn massacre did) and possibly up to 250,000 people (as the estimate per Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a GULAG survivor), the Canal didn't even serve its primary intended purpose because it was dug too narrow and too shallow to support the traffic of the ships it was intended from the get-go to transport.
It is utterly incomprehensible to me how, in the modern era, Stalin isn't as widely regarded as being every bit as Hitler is, even apparently in Russia itself. It's absolutely unbelievable.
What a lovely piece of anti-Soviet shit. Seriously, already mentioning Solzhenitsyn demonstrates your problem.
Solzhenitsyn is a very reliable source. It was sarcasm
I only mentioned his figures to give another general upper figure (in keeping with pretty much standard reporting practices for losses in major events across history from earthquakes to medieval battles in any country that has ever existed), but even so, it's amusing to me is that both of you immediately ignore the fact that I also cited to the Soviet government's own records in this very same matter, but you completely ignored that as if it didn't exist. The video we're commenting on used film footage taken of the gulags and the corpses therein, ALSO by the Soviet government. All of this information was not widely known until the Soviet Government itself began declassifying its own archives and began releasing the documents and files their own operatives collected to the world about what they have now admitted was happening during those times.
Let me guess: Next I suppose you'll try to have me believe all of that was somehow smuggled in by anti-Soviet Western imperialist spies that managed to infiltrate their seat of government, plant literally buildings full of incriminating documents and archival film footage inside of, all without the Russian security service ever knowing, and not finding out until after they had tragically and unknowingly already admitted full responsibility to many of these crimes.
Your brand of humor, although strange, is pretty rich gentlemen, and it was indeed worth a good laugh. Y'all have a merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
@@TheShockwaveDragon no, you started to appeal to Solzhenitsyn. Already proof that you have no knowledge other than anti-Soviet idiocy.
@@TheShockwaveDragon Mate, ignore them. You could mention Solzhenytsin, Shalamov, and the accounts of a thousand other survivors of Gulag, and it will always be antisoviet propaganda, no matter how compelling the evidence, no matter how extensive the documentation. Stalin is a hero, that is the official line of the Russian government and a belief of many Russians.
Let me elucidate with a joke: a man who believed he was dead was committed to an institution. The doctors went to great lengths to prove that he is alive, because he would not eat or drink, as dead people don't need food or water, but the man would not budge. Finally one doctor asked: Do dead people bleed? The patient replied, after they have been dead for some time, of course no, the blood has congealed, and the heart is not functioning anymore. The doctor then proceeded to prick the patient's finger and show him that it is bleeding. The patient looked at the finger in awe and exclaimed 'what do you know, dead people do bleed after all'! Don't waste your effort.
It's hard to tell who was really worse, Stalin or Hitler. When get into their numbers of murdered it's hard to tell. Stalin has better press even today. I was aware of the horrors of Gulag after reading Solzhenitsyn' s Gulag Archipelago; a distressing book to read as he somehow survived the Gulag.
Like the Katyn Massacre that was blamed on Germany for over 50 years with our help...only to have Putin admit Russian blame more recently. How could Poland ever forgive...even now?
Not a valuable question.
Both varieties of socialism, national and international, are equally horrifying.
@@M167A1 almost like giving few people in power too much of it always produces terrible results, especially when that ideology requires someone to be afraid of
@@M167A1 exactly!
@@M167A1 yeah its an invalid question. Theyre both worse than the other in multiple ways. They both believed & were the main propagators of an extremely evil ideology. Both are the worst you can get pretty much. Same w that goebbels guy.
You could add to the list the mines of Jáchymov (former Tchechoslovakia) where the prisonners were extracting raw pechblende which contain uranium and radium in diverse concentrations. No need to tell what was the life expectancy of people handling raw radio-active materials.......
How terrible!
Oh wait, people worked in uranium mines in all countries under the same conditions, without proper protection. In the US, it was until the mid-60s, where government and corporate health warnings were ignored because uranium is more important than human lives.
A decade long sentence but life expectancy was 3 months, after that prisoners were refared to as 'goners' so they got all the work out them they could within 3 months then the dead were replaced with new prisoners brought in for just saying "Stalin should slow down with his 5 yrs plan abit" that would get somebody report you to the NKVD and 10 yrs in a siberian gulag where a shift was a constant 16 hours that could be amended to 20 yrs if needed? 🤣🤣🤣 I'll never complain about the universal credit workprogram again!!
* Czechoslovakia 😘
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э it is still terrible regardless of who else has done it too
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э We get it, you’re Russian, that doesn’t mean you have to defend the worse aspects of that evil empire imposed on your people.
Step 8 Reznov FREEDOM!
For you mason, not for me!
Jokes aside, The Gulags were a hell pit and I appreciate your channel delving more into their horrid history, cheers
No problem!
No , one lie has been told about Solovki . Everything else is about the same , but my knowledge of English does not allow me to be one hundred percent sure of this .
If anything, Reznov and Mason were extremely lucky to escape Vorkuta. From what I heard, even if you could escape the prison camp, the extreme cold weather would kill you so escape was nearly impossible and pointless. My guess is Vorkuta had a rare "sunny' day at the time
I knew I wouldn’t have to scroll far to find this comment
And that was the last you saw Victor Reznov?
Reading through the comments, even after the facts are there for all to see and the USSR is dead and buried -- I get the feeling there's still a few wannabe concentration camp guards and administrators here.
because this is a lie, almost all your anti-Soviet stories are broken by facts and logic
@@xbox1286 please provide me one example that says gulags weren't real
@@xbox1286 why does anybody denying the existance of the system have cyrillic in their username? Cold it be caused by the same reason as why most defending nazism have some blatant dog whistles in theirs.
The leftists of the world are cruel. Fascists and Communists are 2 sides of the same coin.
@@dogsrule-sj2iv ну сам по себе ГУЛАГ был , но почти всё что о нём рассказывают ложь . Мне лень переводить , поэтому Google тебе в помощь.
Communism: an ideology so great there are laws against it's criticism.
You can say the exact same thing about capitalism
@@pharaohsmagician8329 No you cant
Not defending communism but capitalism is the biggest lie. Communism can kill you but capitalism can make you struggle in a way that makes you wanna kill yourself.
@@mast3rchief536 If you don't like capitalism, you're free to opt out of it. That's not the case with communism.
@@maxb9315 how do you opt out of it no matter we’re you go your gonna be taxed and have to work for a boss that pays you half of what they make nothing is perfect capitalism nor communism we need something that transcends human ideology we need a god to lead us into a new age of green and peace
My uncle was arrested by the Stasi and thrown into a copper mine gulag for 3 years. They pulled him from his home beat him in front of his family and drove him away. He never got a trial. They worked these people to the point of death. What did my uncle do? He did the unthinkable act of speaking out against the Soviet regime.
Serves him right for treasonous thoughts against the great starlin and the unbreakable regime he’s lucky they were forgiving to only give him 3 years for such a crime
@@nichtwiedu2470 yes. Never forget them.
Rip to those people that died there
What does that mean?
@@Anti-Furry-tm4tr Rest In Peace
**walks up to gulag survivor**
"That wasn't real communism. You don't appreciate the brotherhood and unity it brings."
I think ussr sympathizers & neo-communists are some of the most ignorant people on earth.
@@IndiaNumberOneCoubtry that goes for anyone on the political spectrum if all they do is blindly follow something without studying the consequences.
@@SpaceMonkeyBoi What's truly scary is that a LOT of people nowadays seem to fit that description. Long gone are the days of debates and exchange of ideas, now it's me vs. you, with no possible compromise.
@@albertojoseyanespantin2803 when society gets to that point, useful idiots elect dictators that instill a century of suffering onto the country, then those same idiots realize what they've done when it's all too late. Like the Germans all those years ago. You know how it is: In the world of politics, people only learn when people die, and sometimes even mass death and hellish conditions doesn't open people's eyes. Some people will hide in a corner with their ears plugged by their fingers as they're surrounded by bodies.
@@IndiaNumberOneCoubtry **coughs** "ANTIFA!" **coughs**
My grandfather was sent to a siberian gulag.. and came back. Many people lost so many relatives, almost entire bloodlines of some families were lost. R.I.P to the ones that lost their lives.
My great grandfather was sent to GULAG, he spent 10 years there for just a being a homeguard. Came back alive.
Soviets locked up there not just russians...
Thats why im curious why Germany was the only evil in ww2 and soviets even didnt pay for their crimes.
And why was he sent to the Gulag? Can you say?
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э he said, for being a home guard
@@harryeyre1322 This means that he was a collaborator.
Name a country where collaborators who served the Nazis were not considered a crime?
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э home guard could mean any country. Britain had a home guard and it was just people who were unfit to actually go out and fight so they setup a defence in case of invasion. Plus being arrested is very different to being sent to a gulag.
@@harryeyre1322 the fact that he complains about the USSR means that he was in Nazi-occupied territory. The Nazis actively formed "self-defense" detachments from local collabrationists to fight the resistance and help in the genocide. And he said about "ten years". In 1955, the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On the amnesty of Soviet citizens who collaborated with the invaders during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" was issued.
"Plus being arrested is very different to being sent to a gulag."
I will disappoint you, but no. The Gulag is a common country prison administration, like the Federal Bureau of Prisons in the United States. No prisons were called that.
My great grandfather was deported to soviet labor camp after Latvia’s “””liberation””” by the Soviet Union. His wife, my great grand mother, died shortly after due to having to work so much just to meet early post wat quotas. My grandfather was an orphan hence.
Deportations of latvian families started weak before germans liberated Latvia from communists, so u can understand what happened later
People angered and full with revange joined germans as theyre liberators from this red terror.
That was reaction against soviet humiliation and full time unarmed latvian civilian shotings,rape and deportations.
Alot of latvians thought that this red terror would end so they wilingly joined waffen ss and fought alongside germans against communists.
There was alot of families, older family members that was sick of this represion and nonsense killing so they wanted to take revange on communists and joined german forces.
Latvians understood that there are two evils, both regimes were evil... But they had to choose lesser evil.
They marched to the front for 30km a day and nobody deserted, nobody.
From other Latvian battalions everyone came .
However, it indicates a very correct mood.
They went and sang - ''let's beat them red and then those in bluish-gray.
Germans didn`t touch them , because they knew they won`t go to other side. That was clear as a water.
I had a girlfriend, the daughter of Latvian immigrants. Her mother experienced WW2 and it's aftermath. She said that compared to the Soviets, the Nazis were angels.
@@randycook2170 Literally almost anyone who survived WW2 and post WW2 Latvia says that. Considering nazis were far from angels, you can only imagine how terrible the soviets were.
I have family that was sent to Solovetsky, Magadan and other camps in Kolyma.
My great grandfather was a Moldovan-Ukrainean and also was sent to Magadan. Miraculously he came back after 16 years, my whole family thought he was long dead. His only crime was being a Ukrainean farmer. He survived Magadan by pretending to be a doctor for 5 years and never working in the mines. He was a very interesting man, he was well established before communism and well established after communism and being sent to Gulag some how.
On my moms side my great-grandmothers whole family was deported to Solovetsky they were also Ukrainian farmers who resisted the communist.
The communists came to there land and took all of there food, livestock, land and possessions. This didnt work the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time they did this, each time they recovered and built the farms back. So they were all sent to gulag and none of them ever came back. Only my great-grandmother who was a girl came back because her aunt traded the jewelry and sex for the guard to sneak her in the boat so she wouldn’t go to Solovetsky.
You forgot about that camp on an island on a river where the prisoners actually ate each other.
fake
@@dumler_nvvb real
In his book, "Tortured for Christ", Richard Wurmbrand relates many of the agonizing years he endured as a prisoner of the Soviet system. Kidnapped by the KGB, he was torn away from his family and spent the next 14 years in a 5 by 8 cell that was 30 feet under the ground where he endured endless unmentionable tortures. They beat the bottom of his feet with rubber hoses hard enough that he was never able to walk properly again. IT WAS HELL ON EARTH! In the 1960's, Swedish Christians found out where he was, and 'bought' him from the USSR.
I personally heard him speak in 1974, and my life was never the same. His message: "Imagine if you could talk to a baby in the womb. You say, 'Hi baby. How are you doing?' The baby answers: 'Good, but I have hands, but cannot use them; I have eyes, yet cannot see; I have feet, but cannot walk.' And you answer: 'Yes, I know, but they are not for THIS world. They are for the world to come!"
HERE IS THE PROGRESS OF LIFE. LIFE begins at conception -- 9 in the womb; 90 in the world; then in the WHEREVER FOREVER! In John 14:6, Jesus said: I am the way, the truth, and the LIFE!! NO MAN comes to the Father but by ME!! THE FINAL PHASE IS CRITICAL! IT IS FOREVER!! DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD!
There is a documentary on stalin on UA-cam that is over 3 hours long. I've watched it over 50 times. It is the best doc I've ever seen. Anne applebaum does very good presentations of Soviet life. Gulag archipelago is an amazing work, but I doubt most modern young Americans could grasp it.
They will grasp it or it will grasp them.
@@savoirfaire3469 lol, the answer to not having communism isn't to teach people how bad communism is. The answer to not having communism is doing something to fix the problems that make people think they want communism. There's no way around fixing some things
@@oakinwol The problems that make people think they want communism are things like the media, the democrat party, and immigrants.
@@SamBrickell this kind of thinking is exactly what made people say that slaves would be happy if abolitionists weren't putting stupid "freedom" ideas in their heads, or that black people during the civil rights movement would be fine with things if uppity people like MLK weren't talking about "rights". No, if you remove democrats, immigrants (not even sure how they fit in), and the media then we wouldnt suddenly be in a magical utopia sir. The problems in people's lives are real, they aren't made up and you would know that if you actually listened or if you had an ounce of compassion for people who think differently than you
Anyone who even considers Communism or Socialism is fooling themself if they have not read The Gulag Archipelago, Book 1.
Socialism without the scruples of democracy I would agree wholeheartedly. There is a reason no Socialist/Communist state was ever a good place to live and that is because, by human nature power became concentrated in a few people. If it were a democratic system, say the Federalist system with Socialist like tendencies (better social programs, universal basic income and other such programs) then I believe it may work.
Tell me what does gulag system have anything to do with communism. Stalin was sick man who used communist ideals to enslave millions. In no way were gulags a part of communism. It's like saying capitalism is bad because Nazi Germany used money...
Ahhh shaddap
@@echo2302 except that in all cases of communist states a gulag type system has been put in place...strange that
@@craigharrison6662 If gulag type system is not a part of communism how can a state that uses them describe itself as communist?
It would’ve been nice to hear a bit about Cannibal Island but I understand why that would be too graphic to add
Simon whistler’s Geographics channel has a good breakdown of this for those interested
Here’s the link: ua-cam.com/video/CaOwcYLGTMo/v-deo.html
There are other videos on YT that talk about that place.
@@PLANTF00D I’ve seen it I’ve just never had time to watch it which is why I was hoping for a 4 minute piece on The Front
Saw that one messed-up
Such a barbaric act. You'd think it was fiction but nah it's all real. Shows you just how terrifying and dark real history can be.
Hell believe it or not but real history is my biggest source for my worldbuilding fiction.
Imagine being sent to a gulag. Prison dont sound so bad...
Honestly death sounds better. i personally dont believe in suicide but i would be really conflicted in those conditions
Prison sounds like luxury compared to gulags
Yes, especially if you believe such a big liar as Solzhenitsyn.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э He had the courage to speak out against his country, while you are blindly saying they did nothing wrong. Pathetic.
@@thorthewolf8801 wow big courage - speaking shit in late 1980s USSR
Currently reading Gulag Archipelago pt 2. Always incredible what human beings can do to each other with a simple diffusion of responsibility
So true. Cover your nose.
It is unbelievable but at the same exact time a brutal reality
I have limited knowledge of the gulag system. But recently someone I know lead a tour of musical acts through Europe and one of the venues was a club that was previously part of a gulag in Estonia. I think the story of the gulags is gut wrenching. I’d like to see the film industry explore this. Thanks for making this video.
watch the movie called "mrJones" and you will realize the actual reason why no one knows of the holodomor. marxists do not want the evils of their ideology put on display. pulitzer prize winning 'journalist' walter duranty helped to censor information coming out of the soviet union and cover up the atrocities. the next obvious question, 'why would he do such a thing?' answer: he was an obvious communist himself. btw, it's still happening today.
And there are still people that say the soviet Union was a "good place to live"
Depends on where you live and in what time
@@Alexander-jk9qz and how do you know
If that was the case why did people try to flee it
@@Alexander-jk9qz my great grandma legit fleed the soviet union
She said that life in the East was worse then in the west
She used to live in Belarus minsk
@@Alexander-jk9qz oh so you think you know it better then someone that actually lived there?
Sure go on i can listen all day
@@stansearcheslife6363 i need u proof
"Evil Empire" was too kind, the Soviet Union was a circle of the devil's hell and kama backlashes in its own time not that of mortals.
Grandad spent 15 in vorkuta till 1953 after get sent to Krasnoyarsk.died 2001 aged 94.
I have family that was sent to Solovetsky, Magadan and other camps in Kolyma.
My great grandfather was a Moldovan-Ukrainean and also was sent to Magadan. Miraculously he came back after 16 years, my whole family thought he was long dead. His only crime was being a Ukrainean farmer. He survived Magadan by pretending to be a doctor for 5 years and never working in the mines. He was a very interesting man, he was well established before communism and well established after communism and being sent to Gulag some how.
On my moms side my great-grandmothers whole family was deported to Solovetsky they were also Ukrainian farmers who resisted the communist.
The communists came to there land and took all of there food, livestock, land and possessions. This didnt work the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time they did this, each time they recovered and built the farms back. So they were all sent to gulag and none of them ever came back. Only my great-grandmother who was a girl came back because her aunt traded the jewelry and sex for the guard to sneak her in the boat so she wouldn’t go to Solovetsky.
For really good and depressing lecture on the subject, i recomend A World Apart by Gulag survivor Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, who managed to survive only thanks to amnesty Stalin was giving Poles so they could fight Germans after agreement with the Allies
if i had to choose between working to death for a government i fought against and were punished by or kill my self i would take the latter. why live and suffer just to help something u tried to destroy ??
Exactly! Before I was too weak, I'd try to take out as many guards and administrators as I could. I'd basically continue my fight. The only good commie, is a dead commie imo.
Many people who fought FOR Russia bravely ended up in their labor camps, this inspired reznovs story from call of of duty waw and black ops.
they didnt have the luxury knowing the future. maybe one day you could be released. obviously not the case, but you wouldn't know at the time.
Yeah, just give up. It's so much easier than living.
@@_wanted_outlaw3007 Particular bravery in war could even be particularly dangerous. Before individual awards were given, the cadre file of the soldier was checked and anyone who did not have an absolutely clean cadre file there, was not given a medal but was sent to the Gulag.
The pictures of camps and cattle cars as well as the accounts of what happened reminds me of the holocaust. It’s weird tho bc schools (at least in New York) heavily focus on the holocaust barely touching what happened with the gulags
So Its safe to assume you were never taught about the "holodomor" then? A bigger atrocity in terms of loss of life @ between 20 and 40 million, yet......
@@craigharrison6662 --- Cut him some slack, he has a dodgy American education.
@@craigharrison6662 I’m American, most of us probably don’t learn about holodomor unless you took an elective called Holocaust or a relating class. However many of us learn history ourselves, don’t think that all us Americans don’t know about our worlds recent history.
I am not anti-Semitic but Jewish companies put massive funding into teaching the Holocaust. In the UK they pay for history teachers to go to Auschivitz
@@eddypowell2308 --- FINISH SPEAKING. | You have not completed your deep thought about "they" teaching about the right-wing-sponsored Holocaust. Speak up.
"If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone"
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
would now refer to the solzha in almost 2022
Could you imagine reading the reports sent back to Moscow from those in charge of the camps. Even the Doctors reports would be interesting to read.
Everybody watching this needs to ask themselves: "Why wasn't I taught about Communist atrocities in history class in school?" Think about it 💡
why? because of some conspiracy? grow up.
@@XD-te6vj I'll see you in the gulag comrade😁
History is written by the victors…
Suppose it depends where you're from?... I'm from Ireland and we learned about this in school when studying the Russian Revolution, WWII and the Cold War.
Why? Because global capitalists do business with commie China and Commie Russia. $$ Talks.
Excellent presentation. After hearing about Soviet Gulag for many years it was too horrifying to lean the details. Now though in your program it's been less brutal than reading the Gulag Archipelago which I have put of for decades, so many thanks for your well handled commentary.
the gulag archipelago is graphomaniac nonsense, so that you understand the quality of the video at 53 seconds of the imperial hard labor, also in the form of a lot of cartoons from the times of perestroika
@@xbox1286 Mmmm. That means only an impulse to write. Not so difficult to understand the motivation after those folks unfortunately encarerated were forced to endure. Do you resent them for writing of their experiences or is what they recall inaccurate? .
Man. It appears that Germany, Russia, and Japan never received their copy of the Geneva Convention. Brutal stuff. BTW, Have a very happy holiday and new year, my friend !
Germany followed the Geneva convention for prisoners of war from the western allies, as they had signed it. But the Soviets haven't hence why all prisoners on the eastern front was treated a lot worse.
@@hnorrstrom The whole scale objective of operation Barbossa was the extermination of slavs to create the living space for hitler aryans,they didnt just invade the soviet to hold hands and sing kumbaya
@@muhacnt7988 Yes the war in the east was extremely brutal. Way different from the west.
Well that’s because they didn’t sign it. (Except Germany) Kinda unrealistic to expect a country to adhere to an agreement they didn’t make
The Nazis mostly honored the agreement on the western front, but didn’t on the eastern front for that very reason. Why give the Soviets special considerations they have no intention of giving you? This is one of the reasons Hitler referred to the Bolsheviks as barbarians, and he believed that brutality must be met with greater brutality
Its not just like that the french and british did similar things in north africa and in india even after ww2
Great video, once again. I love the range of topics you cover! My teaching next year will feature a number of your resources. Thank you.
So I saw a comment saying that under the Gulag trains, they would have giant blades to cut people in half if they tried to escape from the trains floors, can anyone confirm this?
That does seem a bit far-fetched, even for the insanity that was the USSR
@@charliebeareuwu I mean we're talking about trains in Siberia.. They all had Giant blades in the front and back of the trains to plow snow. Would be a pretty easy way to scare people who don't know better..
That doesn't even make sense
The number of older Russians that want to bring back the Soviet union or defend Putin's actions is horrifying.
Putin warned for 15 years if NATO military activity was at Russia's border he will view as threat and respond militarily, so he saw ukraine joining NATO as threat to Russia, as NATO can easily place military hardware. But his warnings got ignored. How would you feel if Cuba allied with Russia and Russia had troops and missiles there?
It is not his fault, you fell for the lies.
@@monteniggrianCRUSHER your talking like Ukraine is still a state of Russia it's its own country they wanted to join nato plus putin has always wanted to get Ukraine he wants to bring back the whole soviet Union I saw let the people of Ukraine Decide what they want to do not nato or Russia
@@mattycashenthusiast8928 How do you know he wants to bring back the soviet union? Did he tell you personally?
"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.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Say... anyone hear anything more about the Covid Camps in Australia?
Just asking... ;)
"Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, "
Already at this point, any sane person will understand that Solzhenitsyn is nothing more than an idiot, unable to come up with any plausible lie.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э Thats some fertile imagination considering he wrote 3 volumes that were each subdivided into 2 parts.
Also, there have been many other writings besides Solzhenitsyn about the atrocities of Stalin. Bill, here, just scratched the surface.
ua-cam.com/video/h5QTjg2HI5Y/v-deo.html&ab_channel=TruthRevoltOriginals
Enjoy, Comrade.
Solzhenitsyn did not work in the archives. All his works are fiction and lies designed to discredit the Soviet system. "Archipelag GULAG" - fiction. In Russia, people consider Sozhenitsyn a liar and a traitor. By the way, Solzhenitsyn betrayed his best friend (childhood friend) and first wife too.
The peoples of the former USSR consider the science fiction writer Solzhenitsyn a scum, becouse there is also his indirect role in the collapse of the USSR.
It's another matter that the modern bourgeois authorities of the Russian Federation really need a writer like Solzhenitsyn and others like him, becouse Solzhenitsyn's delirium seems to justify the actions of the current government, which robbes the workers, seizes common enterprizes, row material, land, ect.
@@dumler_nvvb everyone: behold the power of the Russian education/indoctrination school system.
There are many other writers and sources that talk about the atrocities of the Soviet Union.
Just keep in mind that Stalin killed more Russian Commies than Hitler did.
My grandfather was send to Siberia..he served for 6y and returned back home.. I think my grandma and his 2very young children were the only reason he survived and kept going..
Im thankful to be American. I feel bad for the good peace loving people of Russia. Great Video THANK YOU.
most of the GULAG prisoners were ordinary criminals. 97.5% of Soviet people were not affected in any way by political repression. The number of deaths in the Gulag during its entire existence was less than one and a half million (900 thousand of which died in 41-45), while more than 11 million died in Nazi concentration camps.
Don't forget to pay for your student debt/mortgage/healthcare, get some opioids and avoid being shot by schoolboys/police))
@@ontheline3077 these poor souls do not understand that they could have lived in a much better system.
Well, I feel bad for poor Americans, who cannot afford good food and place to sleep, but can afford drugs.
Also, why so many private prisons with so many prisoners?
Better have pity on the millions of people around the world who have been killed and plundered by American imperialism.
Thank you for sharing, the people who lived through it felt that they were forgotten
All these edgy college kids who call themselves "communists" need to learn about this! Communism is not a viable form of government. Capitalism isn't perfect, but its the best we can get
To be fair Stalin wasnt a communist. He was a stalinist. Communism teaches human rights, fair pay and distribution of wealth. Stalin was the exact opposite
@@cn2673 you're wrong I'm right. He didn't follow the practices. It's regarded as stalinist because he changed it. It doesn't change the facts whether he was called that before, during or after. The facts are the facts.
@@cn2673 whatever helps you sleep better at night. You're still wrong .
@@repunklican1181 there is no such thing as human rights under a socialist/communist ruled country
According to Solzhenitsyn, the Kolyma camp was absolutely the worst. Gold had been discovered and in the early 30s Stalin decided to start exploiting the mining resources.
The descriptions of the life conditions are simply atrocious.
Then I think, we the humans are so proud of the civilizations we built, the great achievements in the arts, intellect, technology, spirituality. We really feel we are the best of the bestest.
This is sheer delusion drenched in megalomaniac arrogance, predatory cruelty and the abomination of our being.
Animals are much more moral and ethical then us. They are part of nature. We are not. We are savages bent on the destruction of our world in a delirium of omnipotence.
My Opa spent 45 to 48 in a Soviet gulag in Siberia, Then My Uncle Immo was sent to a Soviet gulag. He was involved in the Spring Uprising in the 50s. He spent 3 years in a copper mine In inhumane conditions. He performed slave labor. There was a 50% death rate.
So much for the people who want socialism and their way to Utopia
What a wicked evil system! How people embrace this shit is beyond belief!
The fact communist atrocity deniers aren't equally as hated as holocaust deniers is a tragedy of the modern education system
@@TheFront Or maybe it's enough to stop see Solzhenitsyn as the truth and start reading people who are much more competent and did not suffer from the desire to make a name and money for themselves?
Like Nikolai Zemskov, who worked for years with the documents of the NKVD and the government and established the exact number of prisoners and victims of the Gulag? Surprise, but their number is much less than "tens of millions of innocents."
Easy. Because the chance of getting into the Gulag was less than 100 to 3.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э you say that like its good odds.
I think Nazino also deserves a spot.
Nicknamed "Cannibal island" because you can imagine what people had to do not to starve.
I recommend Anne Applebaum's book Gulag. Great book.
Hitler had lost his mind somewhere in WW1 or in between watching Germany slide into shame and poverty after the war....his extremism had a foundation in pure hatred. Stalin grew up in a merciless and impoverished class of Russians under the thumb of Imperial Russian rule. What he witnessed growing up and what he did to prepare himself for his leadership role was unvarnished and unapologetic. Stalin carried Russia out of Imperial corruption and was seen as the man in charge that won WW2. It is hard to tell Russians even today that he was a bad person. Another perspective has to be that he sent people to the gulag that he thought were not worthy of living in his newly created communist nation ( remember he kept paper logs and ledgers of every single person sent to the gulags ) There was a vision of purifying the country of people who were seen as tainted by anything that was opposite to the new ideal. That ideal may have failed in the end but at that time in the 1930's it was a fever to pursue a perfect society based on socialst simplicity. It was a dream that they couldn't see clearly only hoped for the best with. Killing people was considered immaterial. If you were living inside of communist Russia at the time you had to have a right to be alive. That wasn't a right written in law. It was how you looked, how you spoke, how you acted.....decisions you made that came from who you were. It could be taken at any moment from you. Were you white Russian ? Did you sympathize with the old ways ? Were you an intellectual ? If so did you believe thoroughly in communism ? Maybe not ? You can consider yourseld dead. That's how it went. Foreign ethnic group or minority ? Dead. Of no worth. It is perception of worth and value to society. Stalin's rule was an example of a ruler that had no doubts about his decisions. It may have been cruel...it may have been brutal.....but it wasn't at the expense of corrupt rulers who bleed the entire nation. It was just a percentage of the nation under Stalin. Yes everyone was affected but not everyone was starved as under Imperial rule. Stalin knew things were bad and food was not available for everyone but he didn't say ' I don't care let everyone in the nation starve ' . That would have generated another revolution. He was perceived as trying to do something about it. It wasn't perfect and it didn't work well at times but.....it was an effort. Those that got sent to the penal system were a ' percentage " of the population.....not the entire population. Imperial Russia allowed everyone to starve....the entire nation of human beings was the penal system
Simon --- CORRECT. | Be careful when telling Truth and Facts about monarchy, most people fear Freedom and Liberty, because they mark the person as an adult.
@@marianotorrespico2975 is that some kind of joke that people who have opinions pretend to be adults ?
This will go on till the end of time. Humans simply cannot leave each other alone.
How can a person say witch camp was the worse! All of them must have been pure hell . I couldn't imagine spending one day there how can we continue to treat each other this way? We are a cruel Animal shame on us all ..
They had the courage to dare speak out against the great leadership
After reading the comments , I am so disappointed that anyone can in all good conscience say that anything that happened in the camps to be a good thing and people were deserving of this treatment. What is wrong in some of your minds.
Terrorists, bandits, rapists, murderers, thieves, pedophiles, Nazi collaborators and other such criminals deserve to be treated well? I am more disappointed by mass pathological laziness and naive belief in Solzhenitsyn's lies.
@@ИгорьПищулин-ю7э not talking about them! Talking about millions of people who did NOTHING but disagree with the state, put to death! You are just as sick as them!
they're rarted
My wife’s grandmother spent 9 years in one. The conditions were horrible. She was barely kept alive.
Communism, has a short history and a big impact on human suffering. This is not isolated to The USSR shit like this is happening in North Korea today the killing fields of Cambodia, Chairman Mao's policies all of which basically said fascist hold my beer. These days I do not see people arguing against the methods or the atrocities just on who's list of people who should be liquidated. The lesson is not the other guy did it worse the lesson is this is what happens when there is an authoritarianism power structure that has little controls on what it can and can not do history has seen this play out in many forms of government from monarchy's, Fascist, dictatorships, theocracies.
It makes me happy when I see people protesting and resisting fascism, but then I often see people in those crowds waving hammer and sickle or other communist symbols and then I get angry because if you can hate fascist for their crimes against humanity then those hammer and sickles ought to be condemned and shunned as much as any swastika it does not make sense to me to hate on a fascist then allow a communist to Allie themselves with the group. With all the promises of equality the reality is your equally worthless.
A personal dishonorable Gulag to mention would be Kolyma, which was also known as the "Soviet Auschwitz" by some
Communism Never.
16 hour work days?! Damn whenever I feel ungrateful, I always stumble upon videos like these. Not that enjoy them but I sit in awe and just think. Think how I have it easy and that my long work days don't compare to hell like this. Those poor souls were forced to do that as punishment...
punishment was an excuse
The extreme Bootcamp to graduate to serve our country send the new generation here
There was that gulag on an island in central Russia where they dumped a bunch of prisoners but didn't supply them with any shelter or food. They resulted in cannibalisms, often just eating parts of living prisoners.
I remember seeing videos on that island. Horrendous
The only thing just as a bad as this was Nazino Island where not only did u have deal with the guards and Weather killing you. It was the other fellow prisoners that would both kill and EAT YOU!
I read about Nazinsky a few times and it still disturbs me to this day.
The intro of this channel is simply amazing!
The best WW2 channel
Ha no. Mark Felton.
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For me
I read "The Gulag Archipelago". Solzhenitsyn relates how the prisoners would catch rats to supplement the meager food rations. The Soviets had a particular hatred of "the Bourgeoisie", so they rounded up all of the intellectuals, professors, business owners, etc., anyone who they thought were a threat to their communist ideology. My ex wife's mom was living in Latvia at the time of the Soviet annexation of the Baltics. Her family owned several mercantile establishments. She told us, with tears in her eyes, of the night that they were raided, of running through the woods being chased by Red Army soldiers armed with AK's. She escaped, but my exes' great uncle was captured, and sent to the gulags, where he died.
Solzhenitsyn is not an historian, he is a writer. He writes novels, not historical books.
@@brunodrweski3689 if his memoirs and experiences are to be ignored bcoz he lacks a specific university degree in history, then what does that say of u?
I literally just subscribed. You guys make it easy to learn but hard to imagine what they had to go through. Thanks
And Russians still celebrate the Soviet Union and Stalin…
Yes
When I die, a lot of rubbish will be applied to my grave, but the wind of time will ruthlessly sweep it away (с) J. Stalin
why they shouldn't?
Life in Soviet union was pretty good after WW2.
Why not? Iz was a glorius and strong nation
We need to keep these crimes from being forgotten. And this doesn't even touch those who were murdered or died before they got to the gulags.
Cool tale, bro! it's good that this is just an invention of fiction writer Solzhenitsyn and an exaggeration of anti-Soviet propaganda
Dude how is this Anti Soviet Propaganda? All this shit is layed on sources
@@wallnusschef6526 your sources are Solzhenitsyn, the Ministry of Propaganda of the Third Reich and cranberries from the McCarthy era
@@xbox1286 dude stop write in alien language. English do you speak it ?
@@wallnusschef6526 take
@@xbox1286 Bro you talking shit. The fucking sources are layed on an international comitee
We fought the wrong enemy
I lived in riviera maya In Mexico and got over 325 mosquito bites in one night, happened to be 4th of July!
Next day had a fever and my ankles were so swollen and soar!
Had to get this cream and steroids
Was crazy!
Why is it the schools will constantly teach about the holocaust but genocides like this barely have a mention? I geuss the Holodomor and communist persecution are not considered as sexy.
what are you talking about, do you understand that you are crazy
it’s sickening to learn the things the human race is capable of doing to each other…
Communists aren’t human.
I get the Russian autocracy before Lenin and Stalin were out of touch with the average peasant. but was Tsar Nicholas II as brutal as his soviet counterparts?
I think I have a little sociopath in me as I'm on the autism spectrum, and even I find this sickening.
@@PEACHPIG agree 👍
@@bmuller7471 now you just smoking crack or you think Tsar Russia was more extreme or the same as Soviet Union or are you just questioning it was?
Also to your answer you would be better off in Tsar Russia then Soviet Russia.
Before Stalin took his last breath it was noted whiteness by his staff. As he sat up he was looking at the darkened window as he pointed at the window his mouth opened and he began to shake his eyes opened wide unable to speak with the most horrific expression on his face he then fell back and died. This tells me that because of the actions that he oversaw maybe it was SATIN himself that he saw coming in to claim his soul
I wonder if they gaslighted them and told them they're just trying to keep them safe, like we have nowadays, in the worldwide electro-gulag that's escalating nowadays.
Thanks for posting this video. Several of my relatives died in the Gulag. Many people recall or know about the Nazi camps and that is right; too few seem to know about the Soviet ones.
9:07: A really interesting use of torture, and one that really fascinates me... wonder if it's listed or not in the Geneva Conventions?
As godforsakenly inhumane as possible, up to the point that putting them into words might make it either X-rated or even not putting it the proper justice.
Can't tell... but in the end, Vorkuta is most likely the more familiar one, albeit for different reasons.
The three month life span wasn’t happenstance. There’s a reason they did it that way. All of this and all they are doing now is not just killing us but humiliating us as well. It’s a big part of communism. Not just Chinese communism. But all of communism. All levels from commune to socialism to communism it’s all subjugation and submission.
ie go on strike. Get shot? Or work to death. Pick your death. But your gonna die. They might have planned better. Or not. But at least try to over power one and get his gun. Use your tools.
The Soviet Union wasn’t a signatory to the Geneva convention
could you please do a video on the Falklands war of 1982 as there was an interesting story of the Argentinian frontline bombers attempting to attack British shipping and ending up getting shot down by sea harriers?
Harriers shot down lots of Argentine Skyhawks and Mirages. The Skyhawks attacked so low their bombs weren’t fused properly and were dropped too low to go off
@@chrismartin3197 Sea harriers we’re credited with shooting down 29% of all aerial kills in the falklands and sea harriers shot down a aregentian c130j and Canberra bomber
Take a good look Canadians
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Take a good look, aussies.
Take a good look Australians
@@billyjones6626 i believe he's referring to 'covid containment camps' where they are going to send unvaccinated people like they are doing in Australia. Haven't checked articles on this but thats what I think he's talking about. Australia IS doing this, not 100% sure on Canada tho
Eh?
At Kolyma the temps often got to -90°F. Breakfast for these prisoners was a cup of tea and 10 g of sugar. I had soup for dinner and that was it. It was an extermination camp just like Auschwitz but without the gas chambers.
Probably the best history channel out there 👍
No one should be sent to these places. They were just too terrible for words.
call it by its name, death camps
It's not a prison man.
The Vice President of the United States. Henry Wallace, said Kolyma was a fine place after he visited there in 1944. Perhaps Wallace could be forgiven for being duped---but clearly Henry Wallace saw only what Henry Wallace wanted to see anyway.
True.
And Henry Wallace and Franklin Roosevelt, both lying leftists and communist apologists, should’ve been inmates in the GULag.
Undoubtedly he was shown only that the Soviets wanted him to see, most likely Potemkin Villages.
You forgot Cannibal Island, a gulag where prisoners ate the dead and dying in order to survive
Communist Soviet Russia.... it was a horrible society full of fear, censorship, pain & death
The Gulags were very much like the Nazi concentration camps: pure terror, torture, mass killings and starvations.
Brilliant video. Thank you.
When I was at school during the 1980s left leaning teachers liked to point out how quickly the Soviet Union modernized as evidence of how advanced communism was.
Paul Smith --- THINK IT THROUGH | Correct, and compare the disappeared U.S.S.R. with the primitive, Third World conditions in which the majority of workers live and toil in the U.S.A. of A.D. 2022, because living wages (food and shelter) are . . . Communism.
Soviet Union did though, and then scared America with Sputnik. America was not devastated after WW2 also.
@@twt000 --- After the Big War, the U.S. were busy reinstating Blacks into Jim Crow subordination, whilst the Communists were rebuilding the U.S.S.R. and building rockets and spacecraft and artificial satellites, and THAT RACISM is how and why the U.S. "fell behind" in the "space race".
@@twt000 soviets and Americans had also both kidnapped German engineers and scientists. Communism wasn’t advancing anything besides in death, evil and brutality.
There can be nothing better than Capitalism. Who does not believe, look at how good it is to work for Amazon.
Capitalism is when Amazon
Amazon has nothing to do with the topic of this video.
You can also choose not to work there.....
@@johnbaker4246 Of course not. I am writing about this. What is good is that Amazon can always insure you in case of dismissal from work.
@gasgod Of course my goal is to promote healthy capitalist relationships.
Patton was right...
Nein, war er nicht.
This should get as much or more attention as the Nazi holocaust. This is pure evil.
hto trite hobatov, change the hurdy-gurdy of the times
1:12 imagine if that guy simply threw Stalin overboard to drown. 30 million more fathers and mothers and children would’ve lived. What if one of those sent to the gulags was the person to invent a cure for cancer? How different the world would’ve been.
Since so many of your videos are about WWII, you should make a video where you play Hearts of Iron IV.
Love your content! It's super informative :)
This is a ww2 channel? Damn.
Prisoners cut off their hands to get some rest. I can see it. When I worked at a Saw Mill I wanted to accidently shoot myself in the foot to get a break from the work load. Problem was i did not know where to place the shot so I'd make a full recovery.
All this shit happened and the world did little to nothing.
But hey, let's make kids listen for the trillionth time in school how bad the Nazis and Japanese were.
Well genocide is worse then some work camps
@@militaristaustrian USSR did that too.
@@Cacowninja were? I dont know of an industrialised genocide in the sssr
My grandfather was a pow of the russians after he got captured in Stalingrad. He was a sniper for the Wehrmacht. Spent 8 years in a POW Gulag in siberia before he and two finish guys escaped. It wasnt pretty
Russia missed out on getting the maximum out of the Gulags they should have privatized, like the American system