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solid video mark, spot on. the funny thing is, the guys who thought they could redeme themselves, by volunteering to fight the nazis, were the same guys that rushed back from the great war in 1917 to overthrow the tsar and his government. they ended up in siberia because no dictator wants an army of fanatics capable of overthrowing a government at liberty. hoping this gets watched and shared by the neomarxist nutters, so they can wake up from the woke.
Going to the gulag, then going to the eastern front, then going BACK to the gulag except everyone hates you now is like Warhammer 40k levels of grimdark.
few gulag funfacts! 1. gulags were constrycted by prisoners themselves. usually a hay wagon carried them to some empty plot of land where they were given axes and told to construct shelter. The first few batches of prisoners were thus basically just thrown away to build a few wooden sheds before they died 2. russians did not want to go work in the guleg, thus most guards were actually former prisoners 3. prisoners were actually allowed to read books and films to indoctrinate them into communism 4. there was ni grass near a gulag because inmates would pluck all dresh grass and roots and eat it 5. The russian populace would on mass hang around train stations where the gulag trains rode through. Trading food and warm clothes for whatever jewelry the inmates had. My great great grandma echanged her wedding ring for half a loaf of bread 6. The best job you could get was a 'delivery person' my grat grandma became one. She rode the horse between gulags delivering messages and packages thus bartered locally. She also would barter on her way with local tribes, and even steal dogfood she delivered so she could eat some meat 7. Gulags had no fences or anything because if you escaped you just died in the cold anyway
@@ryan.1990 if you are interested in the mundane side of Gulag life. If you know polish I recommend "Syberiada" a book about it or just listening to "Syberiak" songs which are songs people sang while stationed there
Lost in translation a bit. The original Russian word is more harsh and in the context of the Soviet prison culture, it was a grave offence to call someone "сука". It meant "someone who cooperate with authorities" and after that it's either you will be dead or your opponent.
Great idea! A part from Twitter I think the modern day War of the internet idiots, should also include : * Tate (who should be in prison)/Musk (who should be in prison)/orange baby (who should be in prison) - who's the biggest scum bag? * TikTok personalities that makes up dangerous and fatal "challenges" * the fight for the podium of the most ridiculous plastic surgeries * UA-cam wanting to become the most ad riddled hosting platform in the world (they leech of free content uploaders to make a buck) * The fall of Reddit 3rd party apps * The idiotic rise and acceptance of Christian/Islamic/nazi extremism. These are all bitches who are fighting for the crown of getting a gold medal of insanity. It would be several hours long but would be great getting these issues to the spotlight. Perhaps split it up in a few episodes 😂
"The wounds he sustained ensuring our victory should have earned him a hero's welcome to Russia. But Stalin had little need for heroes." I feel like this quote from Call of Duty kind of fits gulag prisoners promised their freedom if they fought for the Soviet Union only to be thrown back into the gulags after the war.
@@Smethells2023 I remember that docudrama: Robert Duval was playing Stalin and Roshan Seth was playing Beria--I liked how he cleaned his glasses before drawing his revolver: "Comrade Koba changed his mind'.
The soldiers had seen that the West wasn’t the Hellhole the Party told them it was & they couldn’t have soldiers telling comrades at home how much of a lovely time they had visiting Germany. Off to Gulag for ‘a tenner’.
Russian here. Prison culture of Gulags is something that still has a shit ton of influence here. Suka(Bitch, means literally any enforcement guy) or Kozel (Goat, a prisoner\civilian, who works for the prison administration) is still used to cuss at anyone, who basically touches the state or its affiliates in any way shape or form. Kinda formed the shitstorm that we had up until recently, where, within the country, you'd see people having the "We don't get involved with government, and the government doesn't get involved with us". Would be a semi decent deal, if governments ever held their words or were respecting personal borders.
@enigmatmzI hate communism and have studied it more than 99% of Americans, but US has overthrown more governments and started the most wars in the last 70 years, and we helped cause all the current violent conflicts on earth other than Venezuala versus Guyana (which the Britsh empire caused).
According to old family legend, living near a gulag was also awful. My several times great grandfather wrote of burning the body of a dead man who had fled a gulag and froze to death on the edge of the collective farm he was working on. All the soil was being planted, they had no room to burry him.
12:00 "Becuase they went straight back to a life of crime." Just to point out, even if you did everything right it wasn't a guarantee of safety: Having been sent to the gulag once was taken as a sign of guilt. So if the NKVD needed to meet their quota and round up some random people, you'd be at the top of their list.
My great uncle managed to survive 2 years in a gulag. Around the end of WWII my uncle was stationed in what is now known as the Kuril Islands when the Soviet Union invaded. He was captured and brought to Siberia where he spent 2 years in that frozen hell. Worst two years of his life, he came back to Japan and he lived out his life as a farmer.
@@GitSnik-i3m good time generate weak people, such is life. Most westerners fail to understand that by comparison, the government in many western countries absolutely loves the citizens. That's just by comparison. As someone living in the west now, I really wish that people actually woke up and understood what is at stake. Sometimes I feel like they do, and those people want to actually make absolute hell on Earth, because, honestly, western culture is the last bastion of reason and humanity. And it's crumbling, and a lot of it has to do with the clueless people inside the country.
Thinking of the gulags and the scenarios depicted here, something I often say is more true than ever, that is: "however bad you have it, someone else has it worse." Man, oh, man. Tough stuff. Thanks, Brother. Cheers
Let's face it, criminals are the same world wide. My uncle did lots of time. He told me this when I was nine years old. "Never be a rat. It's the worst thing in the world. And never call anyone a goof." That's the slang term for the guards in Canada. Don't comply.
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I don't know if it covers some of the same material or not, but he put out a series of three books on Russian prison tattoos some years back (perhaps they were posthumously published; I'm not sure), which is also a great read. His artwork was really impressive. I'm pretty sure a few of them shown briefly in the video are his work.
This is why Russian mobsters aren't afraid of American prisons. After what they've seen, American prisons are summer camps (and not the funny Austrian man's sort).
@SlurpeeBoy9999 you know i want to be annoyed that the clown is even referenced but frankly you just get points for remembering the little cunt was austrian not german.
I just finished reading “The White Pill,” a book about the history of the Soviet Union and the Cold War, and I can confidently say I will never complain about American politics ever again
@@comradehogan7636 Not the point. I mean I’ll never complain about how American politics affects ME, or my life or loved ones, because I now realize how unbelievably lucky I am to NOT have been born into a communist hellscape. I also wasn’t exactly being literal.
@@AdrienMelody The USSR had its drawbacks in being the first state to attempt the construction of socialism. However these people had more democratic agency than we do through the soviet councils whereas in the U.S. politics is reserved for the wealthy
@@comradehogan7636 That is such an ignorant and tone-deaf statement that I don’t even know how to respond. I might have guessed you were a Leftist ideologue from your pretentious, disingenuous reply from earlier. You know nothing of the suffering that happened under communism or the malice that kept it going for so long, and I hope other people have enough sense not to listen to a thing you say. “When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘the People's Stick’.”
@@comradehogan7636 Oh yes, When there is one party, they have so much incentive not to hog the trough but to at least pretend to help the common people, as not to get voted out for their competi... oh wait. Also, if you think, that anyone in the party, who had any actual power to do anything cared about "the people," I have a few almost mint condition bridges to sell you, half off. Drawbacks is an understatement of the flipping century btw. I know of no locals that yearn to go back to that atrocity, except for the russian colonizers who were treated as first class citizens compared to locals back during USSR, and maybe some low intellect fellas, who drove a tractor and were way overpaid and venerated because russia was always on the brink of starvation and most of our food was carted off there. So they could get away drinking during work and even just not showing up for week or two after payday, while drinking away their paycheck. To those morons, this was their lives high point
5:57 actually I’ll give the Soviets something they didn’t completely waste their lives, they just used them in a very Soviet fashion. Recon by bodies. When the Soviets planned attacks and counter attack on the grand scale - especially towards the later half of the war - they would use these gulag gangs and penal soldiers to test the front lines of the enemy positions. Essentially it played into the doctrine of Deep Operations. Hit the front line with consistent attacks; Areas that are strong you isolate with artillery, areas that are weak you throw stronger forces against; Once the weak positions are overrun/broken throw as much mobile elements into the areas as possible to begin widening the breach, reinforcing the position and driving off into the enemy supply lines forcing those front units to either retreat or be surrounded/cut off. As such the first part of these operations fell onto the penal battalions. The Soviets would send them in mass against the front lines of the Germans and look at the results. If nobody survived, then it was a heavily defended position and should be isolated. If progress was made but stopped due to casualties, they’d move a few more assets into the areas to support second and further attacks in hopes that erosion of the position over continuing increasing attacks would break the line. Units that made large progress or even broke into the enemy positions showed lightly defended areas of which would immediately be reinforced by assault sapper brigades who’d take the position and then set up defences to hold it while armoured and motorise assets poured into the area/through the area. So yeah the guys were used as cheap cannon fodder but there was purpose behind their attacks. It was literally just to die either fast or slowly so the Soviets could determine where the enemy’s strongest defences were.
A tactic they still use today. Wagner made full use of their ex-con manpower as mobile bullet sponges to soak up attacks and reveal the location of defences in their assault on Bakhmut. It worked eventually, but losses of materiel and casualty numbers were insane. Russia's military really hasn't moved on much from Soviet days, and it's been devastated by corruption and incompetence. They're like a really shit Red Army tribute act - not much risk of that lot rolling through the Fulda Gap any time soon.
Typically armed recon like this would be substituted with Aerial photography. However until the luftwaffa was completely shattered and reduced to crippled interceptors desperately protecting the home front the Soviets had a huge problem with the air war. No point in sending planes up with cameras if the negatives aren't even going to make it back to base. Use what you have I guess.
@@omgocd Do you know how to read? I don't think you understand what I said in my comment when I said the quote but wished he changed the second part of it. It is not the same in anyway shape or form.
10:46 Odd, there was a similar attitude for many enlisted men in the US military. Admitmantly refusing to take another government job after being released and hating the government entirely.
I was given an ostfront medal the 41/42 campaign medal, when i was in my teens. It was taken at normandy after the owner was taken to valhalla. I always thought dang this dude made it through 2 years of the east to be killed in france while probably on leave or refitting... But dang... these pardon guys... they really got the victory shaft
It's a great book. A writer that's not as well known A. S. is Varlam Shalamov, who was in the gulag for 17 or 18 years. He mostly wrote short stories and poetry - powerful stuff, in my opinion..
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@@kentuckyace1068 he sounds like a good one!…. Speaking of Pablo Escobar, he definitely deserves a Mad Lads video of his own!… I’m honestly shocked that Dank hasn’t done a Mad Lads on him yet.
Godfrey Qualls story is all bullshit made up by his son. Plenty of guys from the Detroit street racing scene have come out and said they've never heard of him. How exactly did a completely stock Challenger outrun cars that were built for drag racing? Simple answer, it didn't. 😂
Excited to see this covered, this time in history forever changed the development of organized crime in the Soviet Union and Russian organized crime in the modern era
If you want to read further into the horrors of the gulag I would highly recommend The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shamalov.
There's a book called "Long Walk" that is a true story of a small group of prisoners who in 1941 escaped a Siberian gulag, and walked (was chased) 4000 miles thru Siberia, Mongolia, China, and finally into India. Great book if you have audible and have an extra credit.
I knew an irish guy who did a few years in a gulag. He was probably one of the most dangerous people i ever met. Serial killer bad (google him im not mentioning the mans name here but hes easy to find, google quinn direct extortion and youll find him quick enough. He died of a heart attack a few years ago in an interpol arrest, mostly likely left to die by them and rightly so). He told me that the place he was in was the closest thing to hell he ever experienced, although id say he would revisit that comment today if he could. He told me they had to eat rats theyd catch just to have enough to eat. As stone cold as you get this man was and he even showed emotion describing the place he spent time in.
The red army also dumped the veteran invalids after the war in the north of siberia far away from towns some articles mention they were sent out on barrs and drowned
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Dankula, you don't know how much better your telling of the story is than even all of the documentaries and films on the subject by the Russian sources, even non-propagandiZed ones
an excellent book that illustrates the lengths regular people would go to for a chance at escape is "the long walk" by slavomir rawicz not to be confused with "the long walk" by steven "yes the sewer orgy of minors is important to the story" king
Count dankula, you must do a video on greg the grim reaper scarpa, he is by far the most interesting mafia figure in American history, he goes from being a mafia hitman to battling the KKK to the ending of his life dying of aids while killing multiple people in a mafia war, oh, and he let his protégé bang his wife for 20+ years in a open relationship, honestly you cannot go wrong with this episode
The GULAG criminal code of conduct is common among all levels of Russian society. In my school you'd be ganged on if you didn't follow them. I studied in best Moscow schools. Idk where the teachers were watching, horrifying thinking back. Traumatic
"On January 19, 1951, our column of five hundred men had reached work site ARM. On one side of us was the boundary fence, with no soldiers between us and it. They were about to let us in through the gates. Suddenly a prisoner called Maloy ('Little'. Of who was in fact a tall, broad-shouldered young man) broke ranks for no obvious reason and absent-mindedly walked toward the guard commander. We got the impression that he was not himself, that he did not know what he was doing. He did not raise his hand, he made no threatening gesture, he simply walked on, lost in thought. The officer in charge, a nasty-looking, foppish little fellow, took fright and started hastily backing away from Maloy, shouting shrilly, and try as he would, was unable to draw his pistol. A sergeant Tommy-gunner advanced briskly on Maloy and when he was within a few paces gave him a short burst in the chest and the belly, slowly backing away in his turn. Maloy slowly advanced another two paces before he fell, and tufts of wadding sprang into sight in the back of his jacket, marking the path of the invisible bullets. Although Maloy was down, and the rest of the column had not stirred, the guard commander was so terrified that he rapped out an order to the soldiers and there was a rattle of Tommy guns on all sides, raking the air just above our heads; a machine gun, set up beforehand, began chattering, and many voices vying with each other in hysterical shrillness screamed: 'Lie down! Lie down! Lie down!' While the bullets came lower and lower, to the level of the boundary wires. There were half a thousand of us, but we did not hurl ourselves on the men with the guns and trample on them; we prostrated ourselves and lay with our faces buried in the snow, in a humiliating and helpless position, lay like sheep for more than a quarter of an hour on that Epiphany morning. They could easily have shot every last one of us without having to answer for it: why, this was attempted mutiny! This was what we were like in the first and second years of the Special Camps - pathetic, crushed slaves-but enough has been said about this period in Ivan Denisovitch. How did it come about? Why did so many thousands of these misused creatures, the 58's - damn it all, they were political offenders, and now that they were separated, segregated, concentrated, surely they would behave like politicals - why, then, did they behave so contemptibly, so submissively?" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago. Go read it.
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4:22 the reason why the threat of death for thievery wasn’t working was actually because of starvation and desperation for food and basic amenities. Which is crazy to me!
Impossible to imagine a harder life led in the 20th century. Being sent to the Gulag before the war when Stailinism was at its worst. THEN having to fight for years on the Eastern Front, the most violent war in history , THEN having to return to said Gulag under the shadow of being a collaborator who all the other prisoners hated.
One thing to explain about the Gulags and the possibility of escape was almost all the Gulags were located deep inside Siberia, far, far away from basically any type of civilization , surrounded by nothing but dangerous predator animals, with little to no flora or fauna, basically a desert but instead of rock and sand where life is barely able to even be possible Siberia is a desert of frozen ground and ice. Almost all the Gulags were days of travelling in a train from anything resembling civilization, a very controlled, state owned, operated, secured and patrolled train. So, even if you were somehow able to spare meals and still live, if you were going to escape (which would have to be on foot) you would somehow have to store a couple weeks worth of food, without the guards seeing you, (or without some other inmate discovering your stash and idea, and thus cracking your skull open in your sleep and taking your shit.... or just taking your shit and snitching you out), you would then have to navigate and travel hundreds of miles on foot, somehow keeping ahead of the search party and GIANT WOLF LIKE GUARD DOGS (can't remember the name of the breed they used, but Russia prisons still have them today and OMG are they huge and terrifying) across one of the most hostile and deadly lands on any of the 5 continents where people live. If you would somehow miracle your ass through all that, you would be forever tracked (regardless of where you go... The Soviets were really good at assassinating people in foreign lands, where their targets fled to seek sanctuary, and believed they were safe... one of the most famous was a man who was Stalin's old comrade and basically the only person that was in the running to become the dictator of The Soviet Union after Vladimir Lennon's death, which was the leader of the Red Revolution that overthrew centuries of monarchial rule, known as the Czars.... this man was named Leon Trotsky, had to flee for his life after Stalin came to power, and was murdered by a Soviet agent, after several other attempts, in Mexico City, with A FUCKING ICE PICK to the head,) anyways, if you would somehow, by divine act, make it out of Siberia, and escape into exile, you would still be hunted mercilessly by one of the most brutal, efficient, thorough, and largest security/intelligence agencies the world has ever seen, known as, before the 1950's, the Checka, or the NKVD, which would become the notorious KGB
Well, as a guy who studied Russian history in Stalinist era, while not entirey correct, Dancula is pretty much on point. For those more interested in how life was in Gulags, I stringly recommend Varlam Shalamov, who, while less famous than Solzhenitsyn, is much more accurate, as he actually survived golden mines, the deadliest camps in USSR as a political prisoner.
Prison changes people, even those who dont belong there. People as a whole tend to gravitate toward the lowest common denominator in terms of behavior, so even if you had a prison full of artistic reiannaisance men and a single savage thug, by the end of the year you would just have a bunch of savage thugs who just so happened to be good at poetry.@@Agxigpk-nj7lx
Wtf is even still going on with that? I haven't heard anything about it in ages. Nasty shit though. That's what run away woke pc bullshit gets you though I guess.
also gulags location was middle of no where so escaping was rly hard bc no food or dring while escaping. some returned some get killed and some died for hunger or wild animals
To be fair, Tankies arent known for being the most aware group. Which is generally why theyre the first to go whenever a communist revolution succeeds and the puppet-masters no longer need useless ideologues as meat shields.
There was this episode on Locked Up Abroad or Banged Up Abroad where this guy Jerry Amster was arrested in the USSR for carrying heroin and while he and his friends were stopped at an airport for a baggage search, they found drugs in it and he and his friends were sent to the gulag. He described how harsh it was. He was able to escape the gulag but it wasn't easy
@woahblackbetty7691 you basically have to learn Russian to read 200 years together. No publishing company will translate it to English. Wonder why?..lol.
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@countdankula they hated the government and anyone who aided it...
relatable.
solid video mark, spot on.
the funny thing is, the guys who thought they could redeme themselves, by volunteering to fight the nazis, were the same guys that rushed back from the great war in 1917 to overthrow the tsar and his government.
they ended up in siberia because no dictator wants an army of fanatics capable of overthrowing a government at liberty.
hoping this gets watched and shared by the neomarxist nutters, so they can wake up from the woke.
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Going to the gulag, then going to the eastern front, then going BACK to the gulag except everyone hates you now is like Warhammer 40k levels of grimdark.
Just add corpsestarch
When you put it that way...man, the Russians really had it BAD!
I think I know what language the Space Marines would speak...
Where do you think 40k got it from?
It's incredible what humans are able to adapt to
few gulag funfacts!
1. gulags were constrycted by prisoners themselves. usually a hay wagon carried them to some empty plot of land where they were given axes and told to construct shelter. The first few batches of prisoners were thus basically just thrown away to build a few wooden sheds before they died
2. russians did not want to go work in the guleg, thus most guards were actually former prisoners
3. prisoners were actually allowed to read books and films to indoctrinate them into communism
4. there was ni grass near a gulag because inmates would pluck all dresh grass and roots and eat it
5. The russian populace would on mass hang around train stations where the gulag trains rode through. Trading food and warm clothes for whatever jewelry the inmates had. My great great grandma echanged her wedding ring for half a loaf of bread
6. The best job you could get was a 'delivery person' my grat grandma became one. She rode the horse between gulags delivering messages and packages thus bartered locally. She also would barter on her way with local tribes, and even steal dogfood she delivered so she could eat some meat
7. Gulags had no fences or anything because if you escaped you just died in the cold anyway
This sound like a load of bullshit
Horrific
@@ryan.1990 And to think modern tankies either deny their existence, or even worse, smugly insist everyone sentenced there deserved to suffer.
@@ryan.1990 if you are interested in the mundane side of Gulag life. If you know polish I recommend "Syberiada" a book about it or just listening to "Syberiak" songs which are songs people sang while stationed there
@@viorp5267 I'll check it out, thanks man
"The Bitch Wars" sounds like a future documentary about the Twitter era.
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Lost in translation a bit. The original Russian word is more harsh and in the context of the Soviet prison culture, it was a grave offence to call someone "сука". It meant "someone who cooperate with authorities" and after that it's either you will be dead or your opponent.
Great idea! A part from Twitter I think the modern day War of the internet idiots, should also include :
* Tate (who should be in prison)/Musk (who should be in prison)/orange baby (who should be in prison) - who's the biggest scum bag?
* TikTok personalities that makes up dangerous and fatal "challenges"
* the fight for the podium of the most ridiculous plastic surgeries
* UA-cam wanting to become the most ad riddled hosting platform in the world (they leech of free content uploaders to make a buck)
* The fall of Reddit 3rd party apps
* The idiotic rise and acceptance of Christian/Islamic/nazi extremism. These are all bitches who are fighting for the crown of getting a gold medal of insanity.
It would be several hours long but would be great getting these issues to the spotlight. Perhaps split it up in a few episodes 😂
Lol
@valer119 yep
"The wounds he sustained ensuring our victory should have earned him a hero's welcome to Russia. But Stalin had little need for heroes." I feel like this quote from Call of Duty kind of fits gulag prisoners promised their freedom if they fought for the Soviet Union only to be thrown back into the gulags after the war.
_Not for me Mason, but for you!_
In Vorkuta,we are all brothers,Mason...
Holy cow COD actually got this right
@@Smethells2023 I remember that docudrama: Robert Duval was playing Stalin and Roshan Seth was playing Beria--I liked how he cleaned his glasses before drawing his revolver: "Comrade Koba changed his mind'.
The soldiers had seen that the West wasn’t the Hellhole the Party told them it was & they couldn’t have soldiers telling comrades at home how much of a lovely time they had visiting Germany.
Off to Gulag for ‘a tenner’.
Call it the "Hunger games" lol
Hungry games. Lol.
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The “communism food games”
On god
You mean communism in general?
Yep, that works.
Russian here. Prison culture of Gulags is something that still has a shit ton of influence here. Suka(Bitch, means literally any enforcement guy) or Kozel (Goat, a prisoner\civilian, who works for the prison administration) is still used to cuss at anyone, who basically touches the state or its affiliates in any way shape or form. Kinda formed the shitstorm that we had up until recently, where, within the country, you'd see people having the "We don't get involved with government, and the government doesn't get involved with us". Would be a semi decent deal, if governments ever held their words or were respecting personal borders.
Russian here, these insults did not come from Gulag, but were insults before. You overestimate its influence on Russia.
@enigmatmz spoken like a clueless npc.
@enigmatmzI hate communism and have studied it more than 99% of Americans, but US has overthrown more governments and started the most wars in the last 70 years, and we helped cause all the current violent conflicts on earth other than Venezuala versus Guyana (which the Britsh empire caused).
@enigmatmz you got cooked, ngl
@@davidharman7245conveniently leaving out the fact that Russian and now China is more often than not behind the other side lol
According to old family legend, living near a gulag was also awful.
My several times great grandfather wrote of burning the body of a dead man who had fled a gulag and froze to death on the edge of the collective farm he was working on.
All the soil was being planted, they had no room to burry him.
Everyone lived in hell, atrocities were an everyday thing.
I can’t wait for 20 years from now where the main way gangs are divided are by which social media platform you used
The Tumblr gang always seeming to be 40% smaller than the rest of the gangs no matter how many more recruits they get.
Or what gender they identify as.
Thot crimes.
Redditors are definitely the prison guards.
Telegram hate gang represent! Lol
Please we remind to the audience this is not a call of duty reference.
STEP 1 : SECURE THE KEYS!!!!
STEP 2: ASCEND FROM DARKNESS!!!!
@@JoseHernandez-xv2bt STEP 3: RAIN FIRE!
@@johngavin3180STEP 4: UNLEASH THE HORDE!
@@johngavin3180STEP 4: UNLEASH THE HOARD!!!
@@acatwithaids5398STEP 5: SKEWER THE WINGED BEAST!!!!
Can’t wait to play this one IRL in like 2 years
Leftism, Marxism, post modernism, communism, and The Democrat Party seem to be thriving. Not for long.
A ukrainian i see
@@IbrahimservantofAllah De-Nazification won't happen on its own.
@@HelghastStalker a liberal i see
@@IbrahimservantofAllah Not even close. Marxist-Leninist. Have been since I was in the FDJ.
12:00 "Becuase they went straight back to a life of crime."
Just to point out, even if you did everything right it wasn't a guarantee of safety: Having been sent to the gulag once was taken as a sign of guilt. So if the NKVD needed to meet their quota and round up some random people, you'd be at the top of their list.
My great uncle managed to survive 2 years in a gulag. Around the end of WWII my uncle was stationed in what is now known as the Kuril Islands when the Soviet Union invaded. He was captured and brought to Siberia where he spent 2 years in that frozen hell. Worst two years of his life, he came back to Japan and he lived out his life as a farmer.
Good on him.
People in the west don't appreciate freedom these days so being reminded from time to time is a good thing.
@@GitSnik-i3mnot to mention he was Japanese. They were worse than the nazis
@@GitSnik-i3m good time generate weak people, such is life. Most westerners fail to understand that by comparison, the government in many western countries absolutely loves the citizens. That's just by comparison.
As someone living in the west now, I really wish that people actually woke up and understood what is at stake. Sometimes I feel like they do, and those people want to actually make absolute hell on Earth, because, honestly, western culture is the last bastion of reason and humanity. And it's crumbling, and a lot of it has to do with the clueless people inside the country.
Thinking of the gulags and the scenarios depicted here, something I often say is more true than ever, that is: "however bad you have it, someone else has it worse."
Man, oh, man. Tough stuff.
Thanks, Brother. Cheers
Lmfao it's not something "you" always say you clown, it's always BEEN said and better than you ever could :L
Let's face it, criminals are the same world wide. My uncle did lots of time. He told me this when I was nine years old. "Never be a rat. It's the worst thing in the world. And never call anyone a goof." That's the slang term for the guards in Canada. Don't comply.
They werent even criminals most of the time even, more like victims of the regime
lol goofs. That's so Canadian.
For those who don't know what a "goof" it rhymes with, "why don't you take a seat over there".
Yeah, people get REALLY upset about goof
Dunno where you're from bud but in Onterrible, especially by the bay, a "goof", goofs kids.
Just wanna say, I've been watching you since the Purple Aki video. I'm only 17, I've recently had a liver transplant and during my hospital stay, your videos were one of the only things that kept me happy. Thank you, dank :)
I hope you feel better soon and have a lovely Christmas 🙂
I hope you heal up soon! May God bless you, and always keep you close!
hey man, dunno you, but hope you get better and happy new year...and new liver 😆
Get well soon, hope you have a great new year and all the luck in the world
Easy on the Buckfast, frendo
"Drawings from the gulag" by Danzig Baldaev. Great read.
I don't know if it covers some of the same material or not, but he put out a series of three books on Russian prison tattoos some years back (perhaps they were posthumously published; I'm not sure), which is also a great read. His artwork was really impressive. I'm pretty sure a few of them shown briefly in the video are his work.
This is why Russian mobsters aren't afraid of American prisons. After what they've seen, American prisons are summer camps (and not the funny Austrian man's sort).
Tennis courts.
@SlurpeeBoy9999 you know i want to be annoyed that the clown is even referenced but frankly you just get points for remembering the little cunt was austrian not german.
@@bas-tn3um 🤓🤓
American mobsters who've worked with them can attest to that. They don't fear our justice system at all.
@@haroldbalzac6336Central air conditioning & heat.
Russians what's that?
I just finished reading “The White Pill,” a book about the history of the Soviet Union and the Cold War, and I can confidently say I will never complain about American politics ever again
"I'll never complain about imperialism"
@@comradehogan7636 Not the point. I mean I’ll never complain about how American politics affects ME, or my life or loved ones, because I now realize how unbelievably lucky I am to NOT have been born into a communist hellscape. I also wasn’t exactly being literal.
@@AdrienMelody The USSR had its drawbacks in being the first state to attempt the construction of socialism. However these people had more democratic agency than we do through the soviet councils whereas in the U.S. politics is reserved for the wealthy
@@comradehogan7636 That is such an ignorant and tone-deaf statement that I don’t even know how to respond. I might have guessed you were a Leftist ideologue from your pretentious, disingenuous reply from earlier. You know nothing of the suffering that happened under communism or the malice that kept it going for so long, and I hope other people have enough sense not to listen to a thing you say.
“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘the People's Stick’.”
@@comradehogan7636 Oh yes, When there is one party, they have so much incentive not to hog the trough but to at least pretend to help the common people, as not to get voted out for their competi... oh wait. Also, if you think, that anyone in the party, who had any actual power to do anything cared about "the people," I have a few almost mint condition bridges to sell you, half off. Drawbacks is an understatement of the flipping century btw. I know of no locals that yearn to go back to that atrocity, except for the russian colonizers who were treated as first class citizens compared to locals back during USSR, and maybe some low intellect fellas, who drove a tractor and were way overpaid and venerated because russia was always on the brink of starvation and most of our food was carted off there. So they could get away drinking during work and even just not showing up for week or two after payday, while drinking away their paycheck. To those morons, this was their lives high point
I asked my great great grandad : ''great great grandad,were you in the penal battalion during the war?''
GGD: ''nein''
My Ggd was a headmaster in the penile colony
5:57 actually I’ll give the Soviets something they didn’t completely waste their lives, they just used them in a very Soviet fashion. Recon by bodies.
When the Soviets planned attacks and counter attack on the grand scale - especially towards the later half of the war - they would use these gulag gangs and penal soldiers to test the front lines of the enemy positions.
Essentially it played into the doctrine of Deep Operations.
Hit the front line with consistent attacks;
Areas that are strong you isolate with artillery, areas that are weak you throw stronger forces against;
Once the weak positions are overrun/broken throw as much mobile elements into the areas as possible to begin widening the breach, reinforcing the position and driving off into the enemy supply lines forcing those front units to either retreat or be surrounded/cut off.
As such the first part of these operations fell onto the penal battalions.
The Soviets would send them in mass against the front lines of the Germans and look at the results.
If nobody survived, then it was a heavily defended position and should be isolated.
If progress was made but stopped due to casualties, they’d move a few more assets into the areas to support second and further attacks in hopes that erosion of the position over continuing increasing attacks would break the line.
Units that made large progress or even broke into the enemy positions showed lightly defended areas of which would immediately be reinforced by assault sapper brigades who’d take the position and then set up defences to hold it while armoured and motorise assets poured into the area/through the area.
So yeah the guys were used as cheap cannon fodder but there was purpose behind their attacks. It was literally just to die either fast or slowly so the Soviets could determine where the enemy’s strongest defences were.
A tactic they still use today. Wagner made full use of their ex-con manpower as mobile bullet sponges to soak up attacks and reveal the location of defences in their assault on Bakhmut. It worked eventually, but losses of materiel and casualty numbers were insane.
Russia's military really hasn't moved on much from Soviet days, and it's been devastated by corruption and incompetence. They're like a really shit Red Army tribute act - not much risk of that lot rolling through the Fulda Gap any time soon.
Eh....... Those minefields ain't gonna clear themselves.
Typically armed recon like this would be substituted with Aerial photography.
However until the luftwaffa was completely shattered and reduced to crippled interceptors desperately protecting the home front the Soviets had a huge problem with the air war. No point in sending planes up with cameras if the negatives aren't even going to make it back to base.
Use what you have I guess.
Was really hoping you were going to say "moral of the story is, don't trust the government".
Also that.
For shere.
he did when he said "dont be a bitch"
@@omgocd Do you know how to read? I don't think you understand what I said in my comment when I said the quote but wished he changed the second part of it. It is not the same in anyway shape or form.
@@joshuahorner8595 he said the same thing, just not how you wanted him to.
10:46
Odd, there was a similar attitude for many enlisted men in the US military. Admitmantly refusing to take another government job after being released and hating the government entirely.
@KnightoftheRound-kp9hd nothing makes you hate government more than working for them
I can assure you, being enlisted isn’t much better than being in prison sometimes.
@@atpyro7920at least in prison you aren't being shot at
I was given an ostfront medal the 41/42 campaign medal, when i was in my teens. It was taken at normandy after the owner was taken to valhalla. I always thought dang this dude made it through 2 years of the east to be killed in france while probably on leave or refitting...
But dang... these pardon guys... they really got the victory shaft
Do a video on the Pig War. It's one of the most comical threat of war between the US and Britain ever
That really is quite the story. 👌
Big shout out for the Piers Morgan thing yesterday. Watching you laughing at him was brilliant. Much respect mate.
Anyone who hasn’t needs to read the Gulag Archipelago
It's a great book. A writer that's not as well known A. S. is Varlam Shalamov, who was in the gulag for 17 or 18 years. He mostly wrote short stories and poetry - powerful stuff, in my opinion..
all for one little joke ;)
@@erniebuchinski3614
indeed, it's horrifying...😢
Blonde Knight of Germany is also a good read, in regards to Soviet imprisonment.
"For half a century and more the enormous state has towered over us, girded with hoops of steel. The hoops are still there. There is no law."
Dank. Here’s some suggestions for future videos...
Colton Harris Moore aka the Barefoot Bandit: Real Life GTA Character.
Godfrey Qualls and his Black Ghost Dodge Challenger: Detroit Traffic Officer by day and Street Racer by night… the real Brian O’Conner.
Intelsat 708: when Communist China played Kerbal Space Program in real life
Mad Mike Hughes: Flat Earther that died from crash landing his homemade rocket
Colin McCrae: Scottish Rally Car Driver
Rainbow Farm Siege
Cokeville Hostage Crisis
Milton Bill Cooper: conspiracy radio host killed by the government
Mad Mike Hoare: Irish Mercenary
The Iran-Iraq War Swamp Electrocution
Colton Moore is awesome. He’s out now and has given a couple interviews, bet he’d talk to Dank.
Another one he could do is Peter McAleese: The mercenary who almost killed Pablo Escobar
@@kentuckyace1068 he sounds like a good one!…. Speaking of Pablo Escobar, he definitely deserves a Mad Lads video of his own!… I’m honestly shocked that Dank hasn’t done a Mad Lads on him yet.
Godfrey Qualls story is all bullshit made up by his son. Plenty of guys from the Detroit street racing scene have come out and said they've never heard of him. How exactly did a completely stock Challenger outrun cars that were built for drag racing? Simple answer, it didn't. 😂
A fellow enjoyer of the iran-iraq swamp stories i see. Those poor kids honestly
Hey dankula, my boss fired me because he didn’t like me, so I’ve been binging your videos. I’m happy you exist.
Hey me too.
You're gonna find something better bro
Stay strong man, I sincerely hope everything works out okay for you!
Enjoy your life because in 200 years none of this will matter
@@jowxxiii4Because people and events which happened 200+ years ago have no impact today, amirite?
5:53 "Red Mist" I caught that pun.
Excited to see this covered, this time in history forever changed the development of organized crime in the Soviet Union and Russian organized crime in the modern era
I'd say when a large chunk of KGB just ended switching hats to become organized crime after the "fall" of the Soviet Union had far more of an effect.
Imagine being the guy who gets a derogatory tattoo and the next day the gulag closes down
Well, on the bright side, he wouldn't have to be a rooster (bottom boy) any longer, at least in prison.
You got some shine on crowders show this morning nice to see it😂
Crowder couldn't hold a candle to Dank.
@@mgaeeeee9150 No Doubt, but the platform is far more reaching. Dank should do a mug club show and maybe with Isaac B
Stalin was like "Service guarantees citizenship. SIKE!"
Citizenship guarantees service
Woke up from my night shift to another new Count Dankula video.
It’s impossible to Have a bad day when a new video drops. Cheers Lads!
If you want to read further into the horrors of the gulag I would highly recommend The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shamalov.
Excellent book. I second the recommendation.
and now we have history repeating itself with PMC Wagner etc
My grandfather was a penal soldier because he was cought smuggling in Norway, dude thought he would get home guard duty, ended up in Russia!
This wasn't exactly what I was anticipating with something called the "bitch wars" in a prison lol.
There's a book called "Long Walk" that is a true story of a small group of prisoners who in 1941 escaped a Siberian gulag, and walked (was chased) 4000 miles thru Siberia, Mongolia, China, and finally into India.
Great book if you have audible and have an extra credit.
Suki is plural, suka is singular. "Сука" and "суки"
thank you ivan.
This is my favorite work of yours yet.
I never thought I'd see the day when Dank gets a repsectable sponsor.
I'll never get tired of hearing you say the word "burglary."
do a whole segment on "annihilation battalions" tramplers and the like. imagine watching the enemy use own troops to clear minefields.
Good vid. By far the best thing that popped up in my suggestions
I specifically like the any day that a new video pops up from this guy the video could be 12 minutes or could be 132 minutes.
This format will never get old to me.
I knew an irish guy who did a few years in a gulag. He was probably one of the most dangerous people i ever met. Serial killer bad (google him im not mentioning the mans name here but hes easy to find, google quinn direct extortion and youll find him quick enough. He died of a heart attack a few years ago in an interpol arrest, mostly likely left to die by them and rightly so).
He told me that the place he was in was the closest thing to hell he ever experienced, although id say he would revisit that comment today if he could. He told me they had to eat rats theyd catch just to have enough to eat. As stone cold as you get this man was and he even showed emotion describing the place he spent time in.
Why can’t you mention his name?
If he's dead, why can't you mention his name?
@@mikepalmer1971if he's talking about an Irish person and is Irish, then we have data protection laws, but if he said allegedly should've been fine
he got munsoned out in the middle of a russian gulag apparently.
*_Huh...??_*
It's always so fun to watch someone non-russian describe prison culture with 'sooki' and 'vory'
“Snetches get steches” 😂 great story. Well told.
The red army also dumped the veteran invalids after the war in the north of siberia far away from towns some articles mention they were sent out on barrs and drowned
I just recently discovered your channel and I gotta say: I've learned a good handful of new historical and mythological facts just from your Celtic mythology and "Absolutely Mad" series. I love delving into wild stories from the past, but something about hearing it from the mouth of a cheeky Scotsman just hits different. From a random stranger on the Internet: thanks for sharing your vast fount of knowledge with us. We sincerely appreciate you. ✌🏻
Dankula, you don't know how much better your telling of the story is than even all of the documentaries and films on the subject by the Russian sources, even non-propagandiZed ones
an excellent book that illustrates the lengths regular people would go to for a chance at escape is "the long walk" by slavomir rawicz
not to be confused with "the long walk" by steven "yes the sewer orgy of minors is important to the story" king
The guys that took the offer and didn't just disappear were kinda thick headed. Russia doesn't keep its word on a damn thing.
Not many governments if any do.
Dankula Gon Dank .......Rock on sir!
Count dankula, you must do a video on greg the grim reaper scarpa, he is by far the most interesting mafia figure in American history, he goes from being a mafia hitman to battling the KKK to the ending of his life dying of aids while killing multiple people in a mafia war, oh, and he let his protégé bang his wife for 20+ years in a open relationship, honestly you cannot go wrong with this episode
wtf
He had AIDS. He wasn't into her, if you know what I mean.
A Russian prison guard said he got mad he had to stand in a cold guard post while the prisoners sat by fires, he lost half his leg to frostbite.
just seen your interview with Piers 👊 the way you mugged him off just by laughing at the end made me sub instantly!
The GULAG criminal code of conduct is common among all levels of Russian society.
In my school you'd be ganged on if you didn't follow them.
I studied in best Moscow schools.
Idk where the teachers were watching, horrifying thinking back. Traumatic
It's pretty much similar in the UK among the working class, snitches get stitches, or in civilised speak - Nobody likes a tell tale!
@@scottjohnstone6204 that's the least important part of the code to my comment
@@namesurname624 Still relevant however important you deem it.
Every journey begins with a single step... this IS STEP ONE!!!
"On January 19, 1951, our column of five hundred men had reached work site ARM. On one side of us was the boundary fence, with no soldiers between us and it. They were about to let us in through the gates. Suddenly a prisoner called Maloy ('Little'. Of who was in fact a tall, broad-shouldered young man) broke ranks for no obvious reason and absent-mindedly walked toward the guard commander. We got the impression that he was not himself, that he did not know what he was doing. He did not raise his hand, he made no threatening gesture, he simply walked on, lost in thought. The officer in charge, a nasty-looking, foppish little fellow, took fright and started hastily backing away from Maloy, shouting shrilly, and try as he would, was unable to draw his pistol.
A sergeant Tommy-gunner advanced briskly on Maloy and when he was within a few paces gave him a short burst in the chest and the belly, slowly backing away in his turn. Maloy slowly advanced another two paces before he fell, and tufts of wadding sprang into sight in the back of his jacket, marking the path of the invisible bullets. Although Maloy was down, and the rest of the column had not stirred, the guard commander was so terrified that he rapped out an order to the soldiers and there was a rattle of Tommy guns on all sides, raking the air just above our heads; a machine gun, set up beforehand, began chattering, and many voices vying with each other in hysterical shrillness screamed: 'Lie down! Lie down! Lie down!' While the bullets came lower and lower, to the level of the boundary wires. There were half a thousand of us, but we did not hurl ourselves on the men with the guns and trample on them; we prostrated ourselves and lay with our faces buried in the snow, in a humiliating and helpless position, lay like sheep for more than a quarter of an hour on that Epiphany morning. They could easily have shot every last one of us without having to answer for it: why, this was attempted mutiny!
This was what we were like in the first and second years of the Special Camps - pathetic, crushed slaves-but enough has been said about this period in Ivan Denisovitch.
How did it come about? Why did so many thousands of these misused creatures, the 58's - damn it all, they were political offenders, and now that they were separated, segregated, concentrated, surely they would behave like politicals - why, then, did they behave so contemptibly, so submissively?" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago. Go read it.
I feel overwhelmed with honesty today so I'm going to leave this in your comments. Sometimes I click on your videos and let the video play through till the end well I'm doing other things. I'll catch bits and pieces of what you're speaking on. I don't do that with too many channels but you are one of them. Anytime I can show support while costing me nothing but time I'll do it. Been following for a few years and you consistently put out quality content.
FROM FLINT, MI WITH LOVE!
I see those cat ears
4:22 the reason why the threat of death for thievery wasn’t working was actually because of starvation and desperation for food and basic amenities. Which is crazy to me!
Communists have never received true punishment for their crimes throughout history.
You mean Jews?
..same to those that helped its spread.. and later cooperated with the failing regimes to prop them up..
Guess who invented and funded the communism?
Pinochet? Videla?
Crimes?
Impossible to imagine a harder life led in the 20th century. Being sent to the Gulag before the war when Stailinism was at its worst. THEN having to fight for years on the Eastern Front, the most violent war in history , THEN having to return to said Gulag under the shadow of being a collaborator who all the other prisoners hated.
What's stalinisim?
Solzhenitsyn talks about this a little in his book. It's quite a read.
Dank is my greatest discovery on the internet of the year
Damn Gulag culture is strangely fascinating.
Well worth looking at the Russian criminal Tattoo encyclopaedia for some examples of the hierarchy and castes in the gulag
Thanks, Mr. Dank for retelling my country's history so accurately and from the correct point of view.
One thing to explain about the Gulags and the possibility of escape was almost all the Gulags were located deep inside Siberia, far, far away from basically any type of civilization , surrounded by nothing but dangerous predator animals, with little to no flora or fauna, basically a desert but instead of rock and sand where life is barely able to even be possible Siberia is a desert of frozen ground and ice.
Almost all the Gulags were days of travelling in a train from anything resembling civilization, a very controlled, state owned, operated, secured and patrolled train. So, even if you were somehow able to spare meals and still live, if you were going to escape (which would have to be on foot) you would somehow have to store a couple weeks worth of food, without the guards seeing you, (or without some other inmate discovering your stash and idea, and thus cracking your skull open in your sleep and taking your shit.... or just taking your shit and snitching you out), you would then have to navigate and travel hundreds of miles on foot, somehow keeping ahead of the search party and GIANT WOLF LIKE GUARD DOGS (can't remember the name of the breed they used, but Russia prisons still have them today and OMG are they huge and terrifying) across one of the most hostile and deadly lands on any of the 5 continents where people live.
If you would somehow miracle your ass through all that, you would be forever tracked (regardless of where you go... The Soviets were really good at assassinating people in foreign lands, where their targets fled to seek sanctuary, and believed they were safe... one of the most famous was a man who was Stalin's old comrade and basically the only person that was in the running to become the dictator of The Soviet Union after Vladimir Lennon's death, which was the leader of the Red Revolution that overthrew centuries of monarchial rule, known as the Czars.... this man was named Leon Trotsky, had to flee for his life after Stalin came to power, and was murdered by a Soviet agent, after several other attempts, in Mexico City, with A FUCKING ICE PICK to the head,) anyways, if you would somehow, by divine act, make it out of Siberia, and escape into exile, you would still be hunted mercilessly by one of the most brutal, efficient, thorough, and largest security/intelligence agencies the world has ever seen, known as, before the 1950's, the Checka, or the NKVD, which would become the notorious KGB
Time to make a brew and relax for half hour! Cheers Dank, perfect timing 👍
I just sat down at the lake here, in the middle of winter, lit up a cigar and have a pocketflask full of whisky with me.
The timing is excellent!
Soyboys. Coffee is liberals
11:38 SAY THE THING!!! 😂😂😂
Coming next: "Mad Lads: the Dirlewanger Brigade"
Dirlewanger was just mad, even the rest of the SS thought he was a monster.
15:43 don’t think you could get the reference past us! 😂
Well, as a guy who studied Russian history in Stalinist era, while not entirey correct, Dancula is pretty much on point. For those more interested in how life was in Gulags, I stringly recommend Varlam Shalamov, who, while less famous than Solzhenitsyn, is much more accurate, as he actually survived golden mines, the deadliest camps in USSR as a political prisoner.
I’m so glad you made this video. Solzhenitsyn talks about it, but not in detail and I’m excited to watch this.
“They hated the government and considered the government their enemy.” Based.
@@Agxigpk-nj7lxA lot of them were poets, writers and just regular people. Read about the Executed Renaissance
Prison changes people, even those who dont belong there. People as a whole tend to gravitate toward the lowest common denominator in terms of behavior, so even if you had a prison full of artistic reiannaisance men and a single savage thug, by the end of the year you would just have a bunch of savage thugs who just so happened to be good at poetry.@@Agxigpk-nj7lx
That's one hell of a title for a war
What? Prisoners being promised freedom for fighting for Russia? I'm sure they'd never do anything like that again! It sounds pretty awful
It'll NEVER happen . . . that pint-sized dictator of Russia always learns from mistakes of the past. 😆
SHOIHU!
HERASIMOV!!!
WHERE'S THE FUCKING AMMUNITION!!??!?
Except this time they're actually being freed after the fact.
@@erniebuchinski3614Describing Russia's greatest leader in the 21st century.
I'd pick that over a life sentence any day.
Nothing better than when Dank droppes a video after a shite day at work
Dankula you should cover the Chaz Seattle riots! Absolutely bat💩crazy over here for a while through that!
Whatever midcentury German, the news said it was a summer of love and they would never lie to me.
Yes please cover the CHAZ!
I don’t think a bunch of smelly hippies LARPing as an autonomous zone is worthy of a video 😂
Wtf is even still going on with that? I haven't heard anything about it in ages. Nasty shit though. That's what run away woke pc bullshit gets you though I guess.
This is a perfect modern parable! Definitely gonna make sure my kids learn this one
dank is wearing what seems to be a cat "girl" shirt?!?!
I'm kind of curious what the whole thing looks like
Listening to this rn on my coach to london for the shows
Always nice to see a rough, hard-bitten story, told by a guy in a cat-girl t-shirt..
Living in the USSR was like being in prison, so it stands to reason that the prisons in the USSR would be like living in Mordor, only bad.
Russia pretty much IS Mordor.
They assumed the entity which put them in prison would allow them to remain free/a danger to their power for their "service." 😖
also gulags location was middle of no where so escaping was rly hard bc no food or dring while escaping. some returned some get killed and some died for hunger or wild animals
"The Soviet Union wasn't communist. It was state capitalist"
Tankiesayswhat?
To be fair, Tankies arent known for being the most aware group. Which is generally why theyre the first to go whenever a communist revolution succeeds and the puppet-masters no longer need useless ideologues as meat shields.
Capitalism with only one vendor.
lol when u say murder it sounds like youre struggling to breathe under water
VORKUTA
Ora!
@@adman1381 STEP 1: SECURE THE KEYS
Fascinating, and harrowing, stuff. This would be great inspiration for a video game btw. Great job Dank!
Crazy how a small minority of people could commit the vast majority of violent crime
The leaders
The capitalist class
Only like 2% of the population, but somehow over represented. How many countries kicked them out?
I imagine it was much less nice than boiled Soya. That's actually a nice meal.
There was this episode on Locked Up Abroad or Banged Up Abroad where this guy Jerry Amster was arrested in the USSR for carrying heroin and while he and his friends were stopped at an airport for a baggage search, they found drugs in it and he and his friends were sent to the gulag. He described how harsh it was. He was able to escape the gulag but it wasn't easy
Go read The Gulag Archipelago.
It really is a harrowing account of fascism
And 200 years together
@@PyrrhicPax Socialism
@woahblackbetty7691 you basically have to learn Russian to read 200 years together. No publishing company will translate it to English.
Wonder why?..lol.
Communism and fascism end up the same damned thing, despite what brain-washed communists claim.@@PyrrhicPax