Growing up in the Soviet Union | Konstantin Kisin

Konstantin Kisin details his family's experiences in the Soviet Union, including his grandmother's early life inside a Soviet gulag.
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Konstantin Kisin is a Russian-British comedian, podcaster, writer and social commentator. He made international headlines in 2018 by refusing to sign a university “behavioural agreement form” which banned jokes about religion, atheism and insisted that all humour must be “respectful and kind”.
Konstantin is a regular contributor to BBC, ITV and TalkRadio. Frequently described as an "objective voice from the centre of the political spectrum", he regularly writes for a wide range of publications, including the Telegraph, Spectator and Quillette. He is also the creator and co-host of the TRIGGERnometry KZbin show where 2 comics interview economists, political experts, journalists and social commentators about interesting, controversial and challenging subjects.
Konstantin's first book, 'An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West', will be released on July 14th 2022, and can be pre-ordered here: www.amazon.co.....
John first interviewed Konstantin in 2019. Their pre-covid interview can be found here: www.youtube.co....
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[@marcelino02]

I live in Slovakia (former Czechoslovakia) and we've been hearing these stories all the time. It's sad that west sympathises with communism so much and yet they ignore these messages.

[@PennySmart]

People have very short memories, except for Nazism

[@michaelwang6125]

Europe made that mistake with Moscow that failed to reform America ironically had done the same with Beijing over the past 3 decades =/ They both had a reformer that seem promising and did take a few actions to push for change but ~ we all know how it change back to the USSR core in the end.

[@hacgarimman9660]

I'm western and understand what you say. Several times I've read all three volumes of Solzhenitsyn. Once you know what happened, it's impossible to forget. In fact, reading the Archipelago, made me live my life better and with a stronger appreciation for what I have and what to fight for.

[@KKristof100]

I was born in Hungary, 1982, my paternal grandfather was taken by the secret police in the early 1950s just because one of his neighbors wanted to fawn upon the regime before someone else denounces him. My grandpa was tortured, put in a barrel of icy water, had eight of his teeth pulled out and beaten to a pulp. But even then, he carried one of his friends on his back to home when they were freed since the other’s wounds were more serious. What most of Westerners don’t understand is that a real autocracy is not when the police is beating up the demonstrating crowd on the streets but when nobody dares even go out to the streets to demonstrate because the police catches them before they can organize a demonstration. The modern Russia is not like that, on the other hand, in the West, the authorities are canceling people who are disagree with them, in this modern digitalized world, if you’re banned from the internet, you’re almost an “unperson”. The modern West seems to have much more heritage of the Nazi and the communist dictatorship than the East has.

[@lindsaygt]

This guy is such a brilliant commentator and communicator. And l'anglais is his second (at least) language !

[@Blt-rr2lm]

My Mennonite grandfather escaped a firing squad during the revolution. He made his way to Canada with my grandmother and spent his life helping Mennonites enter North America and Mexico. He was always wary of what was happening in the USSR and how they might want to have him extradited. His crime? When the Red army captured him, (being a Mennonite he had no political affiliations) they asked him whose side was he on. He said, “The side of right.” Wrong answer.

[@dinarap6610]

Family of my grandfather was sent to Siberia for being kulak (wealthy peasants) and his mother pushed him of the train in hopes that he would survive. He was 9 years old, and he was taken in as a worker in some family in a village. He lived to see Soviet Union collapsed but he never heard of his family ever again. Interestingly, his uncle and his family immigrated to USA after the WW1 and we asked grandfather many times for any information, but he was so afraid that he would be taken as a traitor that he never told us anything. So, I have relatives here in US but there is no way I would be able to find them.

[@smokingun397]

Konstatin is a great comedian. Have a look at some of his stand-up

[@user-xq1eo6wi9r]

🤣🤣🤣 Think you must be a comedian

[@StonyRC]

There is no more accurate judgement of radical socialism or communism than that of a family that had to suffer and endure it.

[@roberthurley4241]

Another good read is the "Endless Steppe" by Esther Hautzig

[@PennySmart]

I love how uncompromising and courageous Konstantin is and how he dares differing from John Anderson (not in this extract), who does sometimes love to sit on the fence, especially with anything to do with C0ViD.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

He's not uncompromising- he lies about Ukraine. But he's anti Woke- so there is that.

[@50centgotshot9times]

Sometimes it's necessary to 'sit on the fence' because choosing sides is what leads to conflict.

[@majorbloodnok6659]

Thank you

[@anthonybateman8470]

"Ohhhhh... no more curried eggs for me!!" 😂

[@majorbloodnok6659]

@@anthonybateman8470 Quick nurse, the screens!

[@anthonybateman8470]

@@majorbloodnok6659 :-D Obviously a shared love of one of the best comedy shows ever.

[@majorbloodnok6659]

@@anthonybateman8470 Absolutely

[@rogeralsop3479]

Konstantin Kisin hombre.

[@mynameis_d5844]

His gradma is Jyn Erso!!!

[@ThePierre58]

His book, " An Immigrants Love Letter to the West" is excellent.

[@user-xq1eo6wi9r]

Nah I'll give it a miss. He's a bare faced liar

[@ThePierre58]

@@user-xq1eo6wi9r regards to Vladimir

[@user-xq1eo6wi9r]

@@ThePierre58 I detest both of the war mongers, Zelensky and Putin so think you a new line and stop embarrassing yourself with your tribal cultish mentality

[@ThePierre58]

@@user-xq1eo6wi9r Have you ever been under fire? My son did 2 tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. However, its much easier to tap away from a safe location.

[@mickeyh1961]

Sounds like he's describing present Day Canada or Australia New Zealand

[@jussim.konttinen4981]

Sweden and the US are worse than any of them. Canada is an almost perfect country.

[@jamiekelly6851]

That's a bit much mate. It's bad but not nearly that bad.

[@shine11223]

I saw a meme where after the revolution, young people who were dancing in excitement after witnessing fall of democracy and rise of communism are rounded up and made to face the wall by communist guards. Meanwhile one of those young purple head women asks him when will we get free healthcare comrade??

[@georgebush8038]

read " Gulag archipelago'' .. returning soldiers were put into camps by Stalin... #Gulag

[@MaxVerhaag]

wasn't that the effect of operation keelhaul? in my opinion one of the most heinous crimes the west commited just after ww2

[@footisman2059]

Gulag archipelago is nothing more than a propagandist fiction book, so i recommend yall not to read that. Its not based on research nor evidence.

[@constantineblinkov2972]

Great anecdotes. Goebbels would have been proud.

[@pete540Z]

Boo. Another rehash of a previous video from you. Please stop doing this. You are wasting my time.

[@1969cmp]

......it's a part of a longer dialogue. Many youtubers do this so that a listener or viewer can get to a specific subject within the conversation.

[@pete540Z]

@@1969cmp I understand that. But when I listen to a 1 hour long video and see snippets of it republished, thinking there's something new, it gets to be quite annoying.

[@1969cmp]

@@pete540Z ...okay, so after 30 seconds into a short clip you can stop it. I like them because I can listen to key pointers again or send the shorter clip to friends who I know will listen to them.

[@StonyRC]

@-- ... then you should be more selective.!You are CAPABLE of that, aren't you? Or does everything have to be drip-fed to you like a 4-year-old?

[@jamesmorrow1646]

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