Exposing USSR Labour Camps: Smuggling The Gulag Archipelago Out of Soviet Russia | Full Documentary

It was one of the most important books of the twentieth century. An account so shocking few believed it could be true. But the real story of how Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ‘Gulag Archipelago’ came to be published is just as remarkable as the manuscript itself. Terrified he would be arrested by the KGB, Solzhenitsyn wrote his novel in secret safe houses, regularly changing location.
Each section of the book was hidden in a different place. A network of selected friends, known as the ’invisibles’, then had to smuggle the manuscript to the West in the form of microfilms. Filming in Moscow, Lithuania, Bremen, Stockholm and Paris, ’Secret History: The Gulag Archipelago’ is an unbelievable trip to the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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[@fredgarzajr2941]

People need to watch this. The gulags reshaped Russia. I don't understand how a govt can be so cruel to it's people. But we MUST know history so we don't make those same mistakes

[@Davidf8L]

Thanks for your work and time making this ❤

[@Harriet1822]

Well done. Thank you for the interviews with Solzhenitsyn's invisible allies. Thank you for this deep dive deep into the production of _The Gulag Archipelago_.

[@christadauria4362]

When I was a freshmen-year college student at Gallaudet University in the college year of 1973-1974, I first heard about Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Laureate writing the best selling paper--"The Gulag Archipelago" by reading the story in Washington Post. Then I brought the best selling paper--"The Gulag Archipelago", I finally read it in my quiet room so here. Before the deadline of term in my English classroom at Gallaudet University, I finished my term in my own words then I gave it to my college professor of English who taught one-year English course for freshmen year college students as my term was graded in strong favor made by my college professor of English literature for freshmen year college students.

[@annechildress2721]

Dad had me read this in college in 91. Thank you for a great documentary! Goosebumps!

[@wolfg6136]

I read this book about 40 years ago, in this book there is a word what I never forget. The children of prison guards often play game to escort the prisoner. A few children play as guard and other a lot of children play as prisoner. They were escorted to walk by guard.

[@wallysmith9261]

I read all three books. Fantastic!

[@brianrajala7671]

Read his book.

[@HealthyThinkingsubstack]

Very excellent and very concise documentary

[@KMN-bg3yu]

This story itself is worthy of a book

[@paulinecoleman2607]

Man's inhumanity to man Evil the absence of Love 🙏

[@maryearll3359]

I read this book when I was 19, sure that when I got to the last page I would realise it was a kind of story - I had to find out. Realisation dawned and I cried for what seemed like ages. I read ' A Day in the Life Of ....... ' and cried again when I realised it was actually one day, just one day. The horror has never left me but has left me puzzling, for 50 odd years, how could people perpetrate such horror and how people could survive such insane cruelty and retain their sanity. ❤ A.S. et al.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

Shostakovich, a genius composer, lived under Stalin. If you want to understand that time, listen to his music: string quartet number 8, symphony number 5, symphony number 7 (this one depicts the Battle of Leningrad explicitly). Basically all his music. But read about what the pieces of music are depicting first. He lived in fear he would be murdered by stalin, like so many members of his family and artist friends! So Shostakovich had to write in codes. A genius. Listen.

[@sweetcaroline2060]

I read "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denesovich" in high school. I thought it was written by Feyodor Dostayevsky, forgetting that that was much earlier 😳. I was a dumb high school girl. 😳😅😆🤣

[@Thanasis_Koligliatis]

45:15

[@werneroschwald1965]

Nothing has changed in russia the same old oppressive cultural is operating just a different regime

[@elsotto3314]

Today 12-01-2024 Stalin is becoming more favorite inside Russia, everything forgotten and Mr. Putin is restoring the USSR. Terrible!

[@edwardspence-fo8vt]

This is the stile of economics the current prime minister of Canada would try to implement. Based on his own admition that Chinese economic system works better than the one we currently have for the last 175 years in Canada

[@margaretpocock2249]

❤❤

[@bro5800]

Oh my days! Thank you.She said: " Communism was not put in trial". I hope" The islamic republic" in iran will be put in trial.Not many people in the world know what"in the name of God and Islam" has happened to my people and my country during the last 45 yrs!!