The Gulag Archipelago: Stalin's Monstrous System of Slave Labor
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Really enjoy the videos, but can you correct the volume between the video and the sponsor bit? Unless you want your listeners to either go deaf or quickly turn the volume WAY down during the sponsor bit....
Yup, I just dropped the vid at 4:00 no one wants to know about surf shark or nord vpn or raid shadow thing. Even less have it yelled at .
How many breaches have they had in the last 12 months, 3, 4?
Thank you for revealing this truth: The Soviet Union was a malevolent force in the world that returned slavery and colonialism to Europe. It is worth noting that they were also one of the largest--and certainly growing--European colonialist nation of the 20th Century. 14 Soviet colonies, plus what they were able to steal after WWII (iron curtain). Imagine: it only ended in 1991. Good Riddance!
“..they did so with physical and psychological wounds….NOW IF YOU’RE CONCERNED ABOUT PROTECTING ONLINE PRIVACY”
our ears Simon, our poor ears! 😂
I come here to be informed, not suffer physical pain
The man is so polished its kinda of charming to see him slip up a little bit
That was a sample of the physical and psychological wounds
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Please do a video on the Ukrainian farmers that had to serve the USSR and had to give all their produce to the USSR while starving themselves. I don't know what it is called but there are valuable lessons to learn from all these historic events!
the Holodomor
@@VincoVenator thanks, just want to get behind why one human would do such a thing to millions of other humans.
I think the Holodomor provides impetus for the Ukrainians to resist Russian invasion.
that volume spike at sponsored part was quite brutal
Yea it happens a lot on his channels lol. It's hard to watch his content without neighbors complaining.
I got to that bit as I read your comment, thanks, I pulled my earphone out in enough time that I wasn’t deafened
Do you know that in the USSR during Stalin's time only 2.5% of the total population of the country was in prison! And this is a fact! Documented fact!
Do you know that NOW, in "free America" there are many more people in prison!??
You are just a zombie! Brainwashed!
I had the same feeling, so I've scrolled down to check if it was just me and here we are. It's a bit like commercials on old school tv channels that are always louder than the movie.
@@szpunar85 its most likely just final editing mistake, this part being recorded spearately and volume wasn't normalized during editing
Humanities ability to place suffering upon it's own is never to be underestimated
War on drugs was always a veiled rights refusal and genocid3, when the laws caused the problems they claimes were the drugs faults or just flat misinformation.
Greed, sin?
@@ThirtytwoJ how does this apply at all to gulags and such systems?
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Come to Jesus Christ today
Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
Romans 6.23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
1:15 - Chapter 1 - The gulag
4:15 - Mid roll ads
5:30 - Chapter 2 - Conditions in the camp
6:35 - Chapter 3 - Stalin transformation of the USSR
8:10 - Chapter 4 - The camp economy
10:15 - Chapter 5 - The dead road
12:30 - Chapter 6 - Vorkuta uprising
14:35 - Chapter 7 - Ending the gulag system
Thank you 🙏
Mention the loud audio part too
Bless you!
That footage at the beginning with the history channel logo in the bottom right corner must’ve been from way back when the history channel actually had shows about history.
It was a clip from pawn stars where the boys buy something from the gulag system.
Yes, I used to come home from classes in college and watch the history channel for hours while I made dinner and did homework. Then their programming started to get progressively worse as they sunk to catering to the lowest denominator .
Nah, it's from the Documentary "Was Hitler actually an Alien?"
@@destructorzz7197 lol, at least it was before Discovery degenerated into 'Shark week'
Make tv great again!
I read Solzhenitsyn’s ‘One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich’ and ‘Gulag Archipelago’ - both had a profound influence upon me
As a Roadside Picnic fan. The authors might have succumb to alcoholism due to the Russian censorship.
This is an important story to tell so thanks for telling it
Do you know that in the USSR during Stalin's time only 2.5% of the total population of the country was in prison! And this is a fact! Documented fact!
Do you know that NOW, in "free America" there are many more people in prison!??
You are just a zombie! Brainwashed!
Don't listen at max volume lol
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50 Wow! I didn't know that. I totally agree about the Brainwashing bit though
@@shedactivist The brainwashing is ongoing...take a look at even a relatively good Disney+ show like 'Andor' (especially when the title character gets ****SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER ALERT****"
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stuck into a forced labor prison assembling parts for the first Death Star)==all the reactors (who seem to be mostly suburban 'Angelinos' of 'diverse ethnicities') are: 'ooo squeal; police harassment; ooo squeal, mass incarceration; ooo squeal--it's like working for Amazon warehouse....I keep posting, 'haven't any of you f##kers heard of Gulags? There are countries operating gulags RIGHT NOW!' I swear I fear for where they get their education.
Somebody coined a phrase: 'the long march thru institutions'.
Too bad it's misleading at best and complete bullshit at worst.
Read Stalin the History and Critiques of the Black Legend by Domenico Lusardo and Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens. Both have absolute shit tons of citations and references in them and will show you just how unsourced and straight up propagandized The Gulag Archipelago is.
Hollywood has made numerous films showcasing how bad Hitler was but how many films has Hollywood made to showcase how bad Stalin, Lenin, or Mao were?
I think about this often.
Almost like they have something in common... Who nose 👃
Crazy thing is? takes 5 seconds to research and find out why hitler did what he did, the Rockefeller’s. They are in his own blood, gave him power to the Germans, then wanted to defund his power so what did he do? He wanted to wipe out all the Jews, which Rockefeller’s are Jews. Rockefeller’s also made the US school system, so therefore I wonder why we learn why hitler is bad. Nah, hitler was good. If he accomplished what his mission was, the Rockefeller’s would be dead.
Hollywood loves stalin, mao, and marxism
It’s cuz Hollywood is all commie…
And Pol Pot.
My grandmother was a gulag prisoner when she was a teenager, her father died there and is still buried somewhere in an unknown Siberian forest. So many lives destroyed, entire societies and cultures just squashed. It’ll never stop breaking my heart. Anyone who displays the hammer and sickle or is pro communism or socialism needs their head examined.
If some idiot tries to fake "communism" that doesnt mean communism is bad. It means politicians like Stalin are bad.
@dliguori25 they certainly are real people just like they are nazies.
teh difference is the way we see the two even though they are both irrational immoral political ideologies
I agree with you 💯
Com***ists are inadequate and impossible to negotiate with.
Not examined, removed.
"Deeply flawed". Simon has just uttered the ultimate understatement.
The British. They are masters of such understatement.
My ancestors were subjected to dekulakization (such a funny word, such a terrible concept) and my parents are scared to talk about it to this day even tho it happened two generations ago. So much trauma and fear.
What did they do to their property?
@allanthomas7345 why
Theyre afraid because they had to do things they would be ashamed anyone to know, esp their kids.
All Bolshevik were Ashkenazis
From Lenin to Stalin
Strosky included
They always kill the host from with in
Russia 🇷🇺, Bolshevik
Germany 🇩🇪
Now the USA , the last host to crumble as u see in the social degradation (planted woke people)
From west Africa
🦅
@allan thomas only people who like communism are the 1's in control
It's amazing that people either deny this happened, minimise it and some even excuse it as equivalent to West penal systems
They deny its left wing ,,,
Tankies gonna tank
Imagine people still demanding communist and socialist policies
@@DemocracyOfficer2485 yeah - makes absolutely no sense.
@@joelvonthrum8658 well people are fucking stupid. There are still people that don’t know humans are animals 😂
I would've thought that this would have been better on the Into the Shadows channel, and be long enough to unearth the real horrors of this infernal system
Nothing stopping him from doing one later 🤷♂️
Into the Shadows did have a gulag episode a few months ago. It was more focus on the treatment of the inmates. This videos is more about the infrastructure.
Stoked to see an episode on this! I’m in the middle of the first book now, the audible version is great since it’s written in first person. Everyone should read it. People need to know that almost anyone is capable of evil if the circumstances are right.
Concerned about online privacy?
I'm more concerned about losing my hearing FFS!
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"Satan! You're back! Where have you been?"
"Russia."
And now he is resting on the streets of America ?? Lool!
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50 More like the cities
Never left russia!
I read a few chapters of the book Gulag Archipelago back in high school...couldn't finish it b/c it was just so brutal. The tortures it described, I still remember some of them 20+ years later, it was just monstrous.
That book is full of shit.
lol american history must haunt you like paranormal activity
@@danfenny9501what
@@jarlskuld7973 slavery, the american prison system, segregation, and many more historical american events make the gulag look like day camp lol
@@danfenny9501 what
9:06 There is NO central planning in Any country that is "efficient".
"Ackshually, that wasn't real Communism."
- privileged 20 year old American college student from an upper-middle class family
Who read Marx in collage, but managed to completely miss the parts filled with homophobia and anti-sematic rhetoric. It's like the old joke "What's the difference between Marx and Hitler?" ...... "Marx was born in Germany!".
Ackshually, we don't need socialism - an redneck who depends on food stamps, welfare, and section 8 housing who keeps filling for disability for a job they worked for 6 weeks 25 years ago. 😉
Not even Stalin claimed it was "real communism".
It's worth reading up in things instead of blindly repeating propaganda without thinking.
@@andyknowles772 Lmfao go back to reading The Guardian.
@@Flavius_Belisarius
So all you have is silly abuse and no argument then. What a surprise!
My great grandparents were sent to different parts of Siberia, and were allowed to re-unite after many years. So thankful that my family avoided the worst of the Gulags.Not sure it is possible to have a communist society without authoritarianism and repression...
You can have something like a voluntary commune, though even then it can be made difficult to leave. They do exist but have never become all that popular, and most aren't stable over time. Given the choice, most people don't choose them, which is why communism on a larger and longer scale has always gone hand-in-hand with authoriarianism.
It is definitely not possible to have communism and have it actually work.
Got lucky. 80% of my entire family bloodline was exterminated by the Soviet Union because one of my relatives publicly criticized the Krelmin. Within days, most of my relatives were pulled from their homes and never seen again, the few remaining that caught wind of the vanishing of family members quickly fled the country and eventually made their way to Canada.
…it’s possible, if you can sell the rich on it being a good idea
They were probably criminals.
All of this was done under the credo and heading of Leninism. The groundwork for all of these atrocities was lead by Lenin ON A MARXIST BASIS. The permissibility of torture from a marxist perspective was openly debated in the news papers lead by the GPU(NKVD, KGB) and the generalized opinion was positive. Rations were handed out in Gulag Camps on a COMMUNIST basis. "He who does not work does not eat."
So was it "real communism" ? Yes. It was the purest form of communism ever distilled on Earth.
That's why neo-communists and marxists of today's era try and have tried since the late 80s to distance themselves from the Soviet yolk.
Thank you for revealing this truth: The Soviet Union was a malevolent force in the world that returned slavery and colonialism to Europe. It is worth noting that they were also one of the largest--and certainly growing--European colonialist nation of the 20th Century. 14 Soviet colonies, plus what they were able to steal after WWII (iron curtain). Imagine: it only ended in 1991. Good Riddance!
And Putin wants to bring it back and restore its old borders. His fascist regime is even erecting up statues of Stalin, one of history's worst genocidal tyrants and mass murderers
I had just heard an English-speaking Russian UA-camr talk about how they were making this particular subject and title something that they were no longer going to speak of in Russian education.
It's all speculation. The Gulag Archipelago never was in school program but One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Matryona's Place still is and no one banning it. It's true that they are trying to smooth things over in history classes(as any country do about it past) but it's still taught in school.
The past was the best it seems to Putin's Russia
Do you know that in the USSR during Stalin's time only 2.5% of the total population of the country was in prison! And this is a fact! Documented fact!
Do you know that NOW, in "free America" there are many more people in prison!??
You are just a zombie! Brainwashed!
@@ilbadr I wonder how much it's pull back from public outcry or misinterpretation. Although given how big the gulags were it would be foolhardy to claim they never exist.
That said I've sadly seen some trying to downplay the gulags on social media. I saw a English speaking Russian on TikTok respond to a comment about a socialist women's group visiting the USSR in the 1960s should have also visited the gulags by saying the gulags were shut down several years before the visit and downplaying their overall existence.
If before you could argue if Russia was a dictatorship, now there is almost no doubt and this is clear not only for foreigners but also for russians. With this, of course, comes the changes in education. For someone who didn't live under a dictatorship might be harder to understand but for those who did live (like me, in Eastern Europe), things are very clear. The education will become mostly propaganda and manipulation when it will come to subjects like history, politics and so on.
Please keep volume level consistent.....suddenly deafened by your surf shark ad spiking volume wise..
As a deaf person I can assure you that what more than likely actually happened was you heard sound at a much louder level. Something that wouldn't have been an issue had you been deaf or when the sound went up. You see the thing about deafness, pretty much the main thing tbh, is YOU DON'T HEAR SOUND! On the basis that it's statistically highly improbable that the speakers you were listen via had even the remotest ability to both instantly & permanently destroy your auditory nerves or completely blow out the diaphragm's in both your ear canals simultaneously I'll reassure that you weren't deafened & everythings just fine. You can even do things like go to sleep tonight without worrying that if the fire alarm goes off you won't be able to hear it so you best not roll over in your sleep so the strobe alert has a half chance of waking you before you burn to death - which I imagine must be a nice feeling.
We, well I at least I, tend not to get all offended by such comments but do feel it important to point out your massively insensitive, not to mention factually inaccurate, BS when we see it. 😉
@@C2K777 my ears literally hurt from the volume of that ad from my USB speakers.
The neighbours across the road could hear it.
We have a word called, "deafening", for a reason. It's in the dictionary, look it up.
@@C2K777They have a valid complaint, clearly you just wanted to sniff your own farts
What an "Effed up situation" that I could not of imagined for my worst enemy...
I can.
There was an independent org that tried to maintain a gulag as a museum. They were taken over by Russian government in the 2000s and was destroyed. History has now been completely rewritten in Russia.
Solzhenitsyn's book recorded at the end that he had left part of the manuscript with a St. Petersburg woman. The police interrogated her and finally got the information they wanted. The woman committed suicide. (Read in the back of the book...I am going on memory.) Terrible, terrible regime.
Do you know that in the USSR during Stalin's time only 2.5% of the total population of the country was in prison! And this is a fact! Documented fact!
Do you know that NOW, in "free America" there are many more people in prison!??
You are just a zombie! Brainwashed!
Trump was worse.
@@jennyanydots2389 lol. Right.
I always struggle to wrap my head around how the country still functioned, with all the death, starvation, depression. But still, people managed to have children and keep the population growing…
Propaganda? Oh, you mean like you’re anti-American Bravo Sierra. FO
Forgot to mention people from the occupied states/territories of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romania/Moldova.
After Fact Boy Tuesday, we get Whistler Wednesday. You spoil us, Simon!
2:17 - To note, Japanese POWs as well. There were GULAG camps in which both German POWs and Japanese POWs were in it together.
Current historians say Soviet documents show only war criminals went to the Gulags, the rest of the German POW's went to prison camps in European Russia, to help rebuild. But they all say the went to Siberia.
@@scottkrater2131 they went all over the Soviet Union, as did Japanese POWs.
@@ChineseKiwi dk about the Japanese, but the Germans didn't go to the Gulags, unless convicted of war crimes. They didn't send Germans to Siberia when there was nothing there to rebuild.
@@ChineseKiwi You can find the information, and argue with those people.
Imagine how powerful the STD's were in those camps.... the herpes were probably super potent.
Just as frightening. The groundwork to recreate this system is being laid out today on a worldwide scale and its right in front of our faces.
What?
Wtf are you talking about Gregor? Off your meds again?
People would suffer torcher for days before giving a confession, today people grass on others simply because they are bored, but hey that's progress I suppose.
You forgot about canibalism, especially in northern camps. A woman was raped in the Gulag. She gave birth to a child who stayed there till it was 18 yr, and went to the army. He was fed with human flesh by his mother to survive. Look at statistics, life expectancy in Soviet Union was with 5 yr shorter than in Eastern Europe. Maybe because of gulag?
Life expectancy was really low back then due to high infant mortality. I think there are two counteracting trends here - infant mortality fell sharply thanks to maternity hospitals and vaccination. But the massive mortality of a significant part of the population under the age of 35 reduced life expectancy. So the first thing masked out the extent of the gulag and ww2 disasters. And life expectancy is not a quite correct indicator for such things in general
This was all propaganda, the Gulags were actually not that bad and you only got sent to one if you were a convicted criminal. The American prison system is far worse with all the gRape in the showers and immoral guards pimping out all the prisoners.
He did an entire video on this subject.
Something to bear in mind when Hitler's Holocaust is trotted out as the definitive human horror.
If you like to read, you really should read the Gulag Archipelago. Time called it the most important non-fiction of the 20th century, and Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel prize for it. Required reading for understanding todays political climate
It's not like that book wasn't mentioned more than once in the video or just about every other comment in this comment section..... good thing you suggested it.... whew, where would we be without you "carl"?
@@jennyanydots2389 well "jenny" perhaps you should take a hint and read something sometime
@@carlswenson5403 Your attempted insult doesn't make sense. I'm pointing out the fact how many times that book has been recommended both in the video and the comment section.... because it likely means you just read the title and then went straight to the comment section. People like that are likely to read a wikipedia page on a book and then pretend they read the whole thing and are academic experts on the matter. If I had to bet, I would bet that;s what you did.... I highly doubt you read the entire book, you just wanna sound cultured and intelligent.
@@jennyanydots2389 well jenny, they say that assumption is the mother of all fuckups. I've read about a dozen books in the field of Russian and Soviet history over the past year. Clearly you don't possess a literary mindset, so for beginners like yourself I would recommend Anne Applebaum's 'Gulag' (She wrote the foreword to the current translation of Gulag Archipelago btw). Frankly, I don't really care what you think, or how cultured or intelligent you think I am. If I had to bet, you're just a troll without a life, deriving pleasure from making hateful comments to UA-cam videos. Good Luck with that
@@carlswenson5403 It's pretty obvious you just want to sound cultured by recommending a book. If you actually had watched the content you'd have realized how much the book is already mentioned. Keep trying to pretend though, it just makes you look more desperate to appear well-read and "intelligent". Only people are neither of those things, in reality, try so hard to have strangers perceive them to be. You're about as genuine as a three-dollar bill kiddo.
The word “Gulag” is an acronym for the Russian phrase Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp
Thank you, that's mighty enlightening!
I’ve always been intrigued how nobody tried to assassinate Stalin. Someone close to him had to realize at some point his name was going to be on the list.
He knew that , had something like 50 body doubles
There were plenty of attempts, most notably by the Germans, but even a few from within the USSR. There were likely many more planned coups and assassinations that were thwarted before they were even attempted thanks to the culture of fear in the USSR at the time. The regime, through the use of propaganda and fear, even convinced many family members to turn each other in to the KGB for simply expressing opinions not in line with communist doctrine. So it's not hard to see how even the slightest perception of someone remotely close to Stalin contemplating an assassination would be found out, and that person would be killed.
Not to mention, nearly all, if not all, of the USSR politburo didn't want him gone, and would happily sacrifice their life for his if given the chance. It's honestly impossible for modern people, especially modern westerners, to understand the mindset of someone in the USSR. It's easy for us to look back with hindsight and say "the person who assassinated Stalin/Hitler/Polpot/Mussolini would have been a hero! Why didn't anyone do it?" When in reality, most of us would have, at best, been silent in our opposition to the atrocities of these men. More likely than not, most of us would have probably been indifferent or even supportive of them.
@@emartin7166 it was a Roman past time to assassinate rulers, so it’s defiantly not a modern westerner thing. I just know some high ranking official was given an order to eliminate another high ranking official after he’d seen this same scenario happen scores of times and he didn’t think to himself… “well fuck! That’s gonna be me next”
@@q5go84q they didn’t rush to help him because if you were the one to not help Stalin when you had the chance then you killed him. But if you “never had the chance to help” then he died naturally.
I remember hearing an official’s wife wept uncontrollably when hearing Stalin died and the husband said… “what are you crying for? His death saved your life!”
Too bad no one assassinated Mao. He was far worse than Stalin or Hitler
1:20 When the picture popped onto the screen, I thought you were going into an ad for one of those genealogy services...Lmao
Someone forgot to normalize the sound levels
Umm, yeah. The Gulag system is still there. It's just a special prison operation now.
Get searched for a shank, and then get given an AK.
lol
Truly a Wagnet moment
Hello. As a Solzhenytsin reader I must add that those books are not for everyone. Plenty of post-soviet people live in this false nostalgia and Solzhenytsin works are like a mace into It. I have known a fellow colleague train driver who literally gone mad after reading those in the late 90s. Also, his final work - The Red Wheel series is nearly finished and will be published in Its entirety (translated) soon. It is a series about bolsheviks and their rise to power from a commoner's view. So, please heed my warning.
This is a subject that is largely ignored by today's "intelligencia". Thank you.
They want socialism very badly now 💀
Of course. They wish to recreate this system.
no it isn't. Everyone has read Solzhenitsyn. Why on earth would you claim it is ignored?
@@Balthorium you need to stop trolling and start thinking
Everyone? Ok. Calm down pinko
Little did I know, when at my first schools, that thousands of German ex-combatants were still imprisoned by the Soviets.
All Bolshevik were Ashkenazis
From Lenin to Stalin
Strosky included
They always kill the host from with in
Russia 🇷🇺, Bolshevik
Germany 🇩🇪
Now the USA , the last host to crumble as u see in the social degradation (planted woke people)
From west Africa
🦅
Speaking of the death of Stalin....great movie by that name. Everyone should see it. Steve Buscemi as Krushev
Funny as fuck & been re-watched a time or two
@@VodPJ24uEgkkZT The only correct answer to that is this I guess ua-cam.com/video/-ea2-kt8ox4/v-deo.html
Is that the one where Buscemi does his full frontal nudity scenes?
I was reading the Gulag Archipelago when my son made me watch 'The Death of Stalin'. It was hilarious but so dark, really helped put what I was reading into context.
@@legoqueen2445 Do you beat your children too?
Here's a pretty interesting Megaproject, the Axpo Linth-Limmern Pumped-Storage project. Which now also includes a solar power plant on the highest gravity dam (and longest in Switzerland) in Europe. Almost all hydraulic and power generation infrastructure is underground, and construction required two entirely custom-built 40- and 30 ton utility cable-railways.
"Political prisoners" is factually disputable. Most of those poor souls really did nothing wrong, but had been sentenced basically at random.
Read "Life and Fate" by Vassily Grossman, and get ready to cry.
Just finished the whole book and it took me nearly five years to get through it. It was suck a brutal and dark work account of what happened to the poor people of the USSR and their neighboring counrties. Its good to know thar we recognize Hitler as a monster, but it is absolutely reprehensible and unacceptable that Stalin is not recognized and condemned for emulating the amount of blood he has spilled in the east.
Dude the volume spike wasn't ok, but I do love your content.
Are you pounding off to it on the regular though?
Seriously. I know many do it but he's WAYYYYY over doing it.
Those background graphics during the titles are amazing! Really raising the emotions! Do you have a link to them? Great video Simon and team!
All Bolshevik were Ashkenazis
From Lenin to Stalin
Strosky included
They always kill the host from with in
Russia 🇷🇺, Bolshevik
Germany 🇩🇪
Now the USA , the last host to crumble as u see in the social degradation (planted woke people)
From west Africa
🦅
Hitler : I am going to do a Genocide.
Stalin: Hold my beer.
Where are the American Indians??
there were so many! Where are the millions???
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50 They lost .
The 'Khrushchev Thaw' probably should have its own video Simon.
It is absolutely crazy that people of Putin's Russia today are now putting up Stalin statues again. When even Stalin's own contemporaries did not like his approach to anything.
Perhaps Putin may want to dust-off such plans?
I’m reading “Life and Fate” now and it’s amazing how the author, one of the most patriotic Soviets that ever lived, writes about the normalcy of Communism’s unasalable horrors. Vasily Grossman(Author) writes how the entire society spoke quietly with inevitability that each Soviet will most likely end up in the Gulags, how everyone knew someone that just disappeared…
He wrote as if that is just part of life.
***We learned Two lessons from the twentieth century, that Fascism and Communism do not work with human nature…
Channels like this give me hope.
The Operation Chechevitsa (Lentil) would be the Mega Projects worthy. Many peoples of USSR were “deported” from their lands to Siberian and Kazakhstan deserts. Many left behind were killed, because they lived in the mountains, where it was too difficult to transport them (Khaibakh massacre).
dekulakization is classicide
I twice read The Gulag Archipelago, plus Ivan Denisovich and many other Solzhenitsyn works. Heartbreaking history!
My father was anong the people from Poland who was spent time in a Gulag, in his case in the Komi SSR until July 1941 when the 3rd Reich invaded the USSR. He was then evacuated to Soviet Asia where he aided the war effort and survived the war. Life under Stalin was better than death under Hitler.
Both were the same thing, although for Stalin there is like a selective lack of memory
No one forgot Kolyma or Pechora, the one way journey to Hell in Stalins USSR in the 30s.
You forgot to mention the "trail of tears" of millions of Indians killed.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t. And believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, just that it would be worth it
And fight against those that would commit such atrocities
@@jordanclark4635 so basically fight tankies
Been reading this on and off for a while... wild stuff. Good read.
These are crimes against humanity, bigger than Hitler who was a friend of Stalin's in the beginning. My parents went through the GULAG (near city of Magadan in the far east). My father was arrested in August of 1937, was given 10 years, amazingly survived, was released in 1947 but stayed in the GULAG until the Khruschev thaw in 1956. Many who returned were arrested again and given another 25 years. My mother was in exile in Kazakhstan in horrible conditions because the husband was arrested. They both miraculously survived but their lives were destroyed and nobody was ever held accountable for the crimes. Now the KGB state going backward in time. People in America here have no clue and do not appreciate what they have.
Congratz on finally getting to .300!
Great Channel. Thanks
Everyone in US who thinks Socialism or Communism is a good thing worth trying should study more about this. What really happened, not the glorified vision they hear at University
You understand that not all socialist systems are communist right? It's all on a sliding scale with communisn on the extreme end and places like modern day europe, allowing a more mixed economy, with plenty of state run companies and state support on the other
Simon has such a soothing voice that a video like this is easy to fall asleep to
1:13 the gulag
4:14 sponsorship
5:27 condition in their camps
6:30 Stalin's transformation
8:06: the camp economy
10:10 the dead road
12:24 Vorkuta uprising
14:29 ending the gulag system
Do you know that in the USSR during Stalin's time only 2.5% of the total population of the country was in prison! And this is a fact! Documented fact!
Do you know that NOW, in "free America" there are many more people in prison!?? And torture in guantanomo.
Brainwashed!
You must be desperate for some compliments.
Surprisingly UA-cam hasn’t censored this
I was banned from yikyak for suggesting this book as an inclusion on a university reading list.
And now we know where Hitler got his mustard, it had been done before. It's a shame that this isn't remembered.
Actually Read Solzhenitsyn. The gulags were created under Lenin, not Stalin. It was a core problem with communism, not just Stalin.
There was a book out in the 90’s, by a Tolstoy about Stalin and his buddies. He had a lot of details that I hadn’t in any of the other books I have read on the subject. One of those told of the Russian counterattack from Stalingrad where the front line of the ground attack was lead by political prisoners. And from his description they were simply walking mine detectors. And many were happy to cooperate with their captors and intentionally find one to end their suffering. Bizarro world.
This is the world that breadtube gets wet for.
Waiting for the "but that's not REAL communism" comments.
Clearly you don't understand communism.
I bet you think capitalism is amazing, despite there being about 50 million more deaths due to it than communism.
Boot licker.
I think that's out of vogue now. Today it's all "Not being given everything for free and having to work for it is just as bad!"
Stalin was more akin to a fascist than a communist or anything else. People like you don't understand that or don't care, and wish to keep people ignorant. Let me guess, you think North Korea is actually Democratic? Would you post this comment on a video about Nazism? "Waiting for the 'but that's not REAL socialism" comments"?
@@jamietaylor5570 You right wingers really show how ignorant you are, even with how little you say.
@@ComradeCatpurrnicus It's funny that you think I'm right-wing. My guess is that pretty-much anyone who isn't a communist is right wing in your head.
We have hit peak dreadful youtube.. The thumbnail of a dude pursing his lips and raising his eyebrows at actual, literal megadeaths is off colour at best.
America and Britain shouldn’t have helped Staling during WW2
They didnt! 😑
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50 Yes they did.. America and Britain both sent Supplies, Food ammunition , trucks and Clothes
@@sleepmnan22sleepman50 Go do research
The western nations helped the Soviets. Lend lease. The thousands upon thousands of trucks alone that the USA supplied the Soviets is credited with allowing the Soviets to continue their mechanized advances on all fronts, despite massive losses. And thats just trucks. In the end, war makes strange bed fellows.
@@samright4661 And she also sold everything necessary to Nazi Germany ...
Through shell companies! - Go do research !!!!!!!
Say NO!??
Nothing personal. It's just business.... Loool!
This should be on “In to the shadows”
Thanks for posting this. Required reading for all Western school children who have no idea their ideas today, taught by Marxist professors, can lead to a repetition of these horrors.
My 20-something sons always ask rhetorically who killed the most Russians, Hilter or Stalin?
After decades of study historians have come to a number of 9 million soviets that died because of Stalin. They just revealed a statue for him this week in Volgograd and they are thinking renaming the city Stalingrad again. Go figure.
Just remember, this is why you don't give up your right to own firearms. Period.
wrong headline. It wasnt Stalins Camps. It was communist camps.
Crazy to think we live in a world where shit like this happened. Even worse, this is just the tip of an exceedingly bleak iceberg.
Isn't there 'work camps ' like this in North Korea.
I dare say Putins efforts at replicating Stalins Gulags is something to watch out for...........
According to the Gulag Archipelago, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, these horrors began under Lenin. Stalin simply picked up where Lenin Left off and cranked it up to a hundred.
Makes one wonder how Puddings modern Conzentration camps look these days & when they will be liberated & what atrocitys the world will see there after that madman is gone!
Madman? Because the EU says so, or because NATO is saying so?
@@imaginedmountains2311 because of his actions!
@@mho... which actions specifically?
@@imaginedmountains2311 C'mon, Putin, we know that's really you.
@@perniciouspete4986 Nope just sick of my tax dollars enriching corrupt politicians that caused the war to start with. Russia is no threat to me, I don't care about Ukraine when I can barely afford groceries.
I'm surprised the books haven't been mentioned yet. What better reference point than the volumes written by someone who experienced it?
Perfect lunch break content viewing! Thank you for the great videos Simon! I wish I could share your content with my class (I'm a teacher). Unfortunately, your content can be a bit rough especially for 8th graders. :)
All Bolshevik were Ashkenazis
From Lenin to Stalin
Strosky included
They always kill the host from with in
Russia 🇷🇺, Bolshevik
Germany 🇩🇪
Now the USA , the last host to crumble as u see in the social degradation (planted woke people)
From west Africa
🦅
@@criessmiles3620
While it is true the woke termites have tried their very best to bring down the country...they have failed. Unlike your other great examples the people have outright rejected the woke in mass. Let me give you an example- Every company, news agency, product, film, production house, TV show, comics industry that pushes woke nonsense has failed.
What I mean is unlike Germany or Russia the extremism has failed to take hold here. Yes, the mass media has done everything they can to convince us the country is overrun with these cultural vampires but it's not, not even close. Oh but it gets even better. There are 12 cities (this is out of 19,495) in the US that have chosen to give the woke scum power over the people. Every last city they control is collapsing. Meanwhile (forget cities) states that have chosen to reject the woke pigs are thriving. My state of Florida, has pushed every last woke son of a b*tch out of office. We are what is called a Super-majority and our state is booming. Everyone is working, we do not have rioting, our police force is strong, and We The People are well armed and aren't going to put up with their leftist nonsense. Our government here in Florida is leading the way for other states and many have joined us in rejecting the woke. We're not the only Super-majority that kicked every last woke pig out of office. What really broke the leftists back was Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. You see, he exposed them for the liars they are. They make up less than 2% of the country and now we know it...game over woke scum.
Addendum- As I type this, big companies that have pushed woke propaganda are dropping like flies or are running scared. Disney for example is fighting for their lives and it's not looking good (I hope they burn). For a very funny story...look up M&Ms pulls woke packaging off the shelves and gets roasted by A&W Rootbeer. Their new woke campaign lasted for two weeks before the backlash forced them to shut it down. The woke have lost so succinctly it's not even up for debate. Which is great because screw extremism.
Not if you read the comments, gradeschool children with their Karl Marx and Lenin profile pictures
@@ArguablyTheWorst
I'll tell you this...that garbage is all coming from leftist held cesspits. That kind of thing doesn't fly here.
the harsh volume spike right when the surfshark part start is really brutal and not pleasing to the ear
One of those "undesirables" in the Vorkuta camp at the time of the uprising was the American, John Noble. At the time, the Soviets were denying that they had him.
Currently reading the book, it’s terrifying and I’ve had to put it down a few times as too full on
This is one of those topics where I wish my fellow American was more capable of introspection.
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@@jamesengland7461 Long story short, the US prison system is a pretty long walk away from ideal.
@Name of course that's true, but American prisoners are safely housed, fed, and given at least some liberties. Horribly, probably 2/3 of prisoners shouldn't be there because imprisonment doesn't fit the crime, and yet thousands should be in prison but aren't because of stupid lenient sentences and legal technicalities. It's not much of a justice system, and yet sadly still better than most, who don't even enjoy legal rights. Mandatory minimums and 3 strikes need to go away. The Finnish prison system is much better. I actually think American prisoners need to work full time, but in jobs that feed and clothe themselves and train them to succeed in society, while providing restitution to their victims.
@@jamesengland7461 One of the ways that I would change the prison system is that I would require the workers be paid (at least) minimum wage, and forcing people to work makes me uncomfortable.
I can see being required to work the chow hall and participate in household duties, but I don't want anyone forced into the license plate stamping factory, because that helps to defeat the purpose of the exercise.
@@Name-ot3xw yeah; I'm thinking productive, fulfilling work under proper conditions, with training certificates and such.
Just imagine what they'll say about the Gulag-Americano that's about to kick off
"And then it got worse" - Russian History
That is an understatement on today world geopolitics.
Simon Sensei, you have just been spared the joys of being sent on an all-expense paid trip to the Siberian Re-Education Camps.
Just mind-boggling that there are still people who think socialism is a good idea.
They're called democrats and they're hated by us Americans
About 25% of the world's total prison population is in the United States, which holds about 2.19 million prisoners as of 2019 (1.38 million in federal and state prisons, 745,200 in jails).
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Prison Population by State 2023. Capitalism
@@supercool1238 it's not capitalism but the socialist welfare system that caused that to happen.
@@supercool1238 stop attempting to minimize these terrible crimes by comparing them to the western prison system. There is no comparison.
@@supercool1238so only the United States has this issue, correct? But the entire world is capitalist? Your point is entirely mute when you step out of the box you are in hating capitalism and start to wonder what is wrong with the states specifically.
Thanks
Video idea: Chinese gulags. (if there were any. Don't know)
NO! Better about torture in America's prisons, like in Guantanamo!
5:47 these people were also known as “dokhodyagas” or simply “goners”. Poor souls.