Ukrainian Woman On The Life Inside Gulag | Minutes With |

In this episode of Minutes With we sat down with amazing Ivanna Maszczak, who spent 7 years in Gulag labor camp in remote part of Siberia during Soviet times.
Ivanna shared with us how she was arrested for being part of Ukrainian independence movement, what was it like to travel 11,000 km from home to the labor camp, what were the days there like and what she thinks about the current Ukrainian fight for freedom.
This is the first Minutes With interview conducted in a foreign language and subbed.
Thanks so much to Ivanna for taking part.
You can find out more about her life here:
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[@MascletaTheFirst]

Damn, 97 and still has such a clear mind. Awesome stuff.

[@mariahhowgill8448]

I love all of these videos however would definitely benefit from slightly large text for someone watching on a phone

[@bushrasaid195]

Thank you for speaking on our behalf 👏🏻

[@vblake530530]

I’m NOT THE ONLY ONE

[@play-fool]

Even watching on my television, I could benefit from it being bigger 😂

[@thedinkydreads9351]

Please don't ever, EVER stop this series!

[@rosalieholderberg]

Being Ukrainian, I love hearing the authentic Ukrainian language being spoken

[@aislingsibeallyons3416]

Is it very clear or old fashioned? Like correct ? It's the same in English when I hear old people speak English it's correct and no slang and I love it ❤❤

[@rosalieholderberg]

@@aislingsibeallyons3416 its authentic ukrainian , not mixed with russian like now

[@rosalieholderberg]

thats exactly what i wrote .

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Aww man. I love hearing stories to go to bed. I can’t read subtitles when in bed. Aqqqw man ;(((

[@Soyuz2578]

​@@rosalieholderbergУкраины евpeйский??

[@sstritmatter2158]

She has a silent strentht like concrete though she is warm, too especially having gone through the gulags. Gulag Archipelago is a great read and shows the dysfunction of extreme governmental power over people.

[@ipanasenko]

Sooo surprised to hear Ukrainian on your channel! Thank you!

[@paulogunyemi8617]

Why is it so surprising?

[@ipanasenko]

@@paulogunyemi8617 in a good way. It's English-speaking channel, so any other language is unexpected

[@paulogunyemi8617]

@@ipanasenko I see

[@aislingsibeallyons3416]

I think they had Spanish speaking before before and also Korean speak people too ❤❤❤

[@anneko6842]

My grandfather was there and worked in the mines. I don’t know much about it but he died later of lung cancer

[@user-lo4mv7qx8m]

Яка елегантна пані і який світлий розум ів 97 років!Маю честь бути знайомою з нею! Здоров'я і добра Вам ,пані Асю!

[@DisruptiveWealthCreation]

Had the great opportunity of meeting this lady. She may be small in build but BIG in so many other ways.

[@nerd26373]

We appreciate hearing her own personal insights/experiences. We look forward to seeing more content like this.

[@dotdashdotdash]

Very moving and inspiring lady

[@rimakavaliauskyte1646]

Wonderful story🙏

[@royalfrog9911]

My heart breaks with every word Ivanna says 🇺🇦🇨🇦. I have a similar story in my family. Being in Gulag is terrible enough, but being a woman makes it even worse because of the sexual violence from the russian guards and soldiers.

[@salahad-din4114]

WTF has Canada got to do with the Ukraine?

[@WangAiHua]

@@salahad-din4114 For those Canadians who love freedom it has everything to do with Ukraine--For those like you who prefer RuZZian autocracy, torture, murder, rape--not so much!

[@sneakysasquatch6014]

I feel bad because she’s blind in both eyes

[@swaggery]

@@salahad-din4114 Canada has a lot of Ukrainian immigrants. Their family could live in Canada these days.

[@justmadeit2]

I’m currently reading One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It’s about life in a gulag in Siberia

[@Andyd2585]

Should read the gulag archipelago by the same author

[@BlutoandCo]

​@@gopnikchav6427 poor vatnik 😂

[@maryannmostek7318]

Read that when i was 13 because that's what Ukrainian kids in Americacread, not Nancy Drew. Remember the fish head,rotted food. My father,was anerican GI. Captured in North Africa and spent 2.5 years in worst stalag in Germany..rotted food (if they got any) beatings, wounded GIs shot dead by Germans when unable to walk on death march. Not much difference between nazi army and russian

[@Q-hv2cb]

​@@Andyd2585 even the author's wife said that that book is nonsense and badly researched

[@Biscviton]

Many people were unjustly imprisoned in the Gulag. Read about the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. You will be very surprised how ambiguous their struggle was.

[@johngslot8367]

God bless Ukraine and many more years of a good health and joy for this honourable lady. With respect from Latvia,thank you LADbible.

[@beethimbles8801]

This was incredibly humbling.

[@sybariticops]

If anyone needs a visual of what GULAG life was like, read Danzig Baldaev’s “Drawings from the GULAG”… not for the faint of heart…

[@kaley2933]

It is a damn shame that the views on this episode are so low.

[@rkivlenieks]

Ukrainians seem to always have been very strong people with love for their country, Слава Украине, Героям слава

[@SadMoon20]

WHY are you making the subtitles so small??😢😢 Always... Please, make them easier to read 😢

[@blqckpop]

I would have loved to watch this video until the end as the story is good and the lady telling it is truly amazing, but I can’t see your small letters. What a shame…

[@tripspointcom7062]

Impressed by so small and so strong lady. It's understandable now why Ukrainians are so strong against Russian aggression.

[@jason4275]

The subtitles was difficult to read.

[@ih8toxic]

she fr clutched gulag

[@deeppurple883]

Bill Moore top man. Nothing but the truth. 🥊☘️🥊

[@mende3petrov45]

At first I thought this is queen of England disguised speaking in Ukrainian about her experience in gulag

[@lewis3128]

The subtitles are smaller than the hope for world peace

[@tyrediron3269]

The Subtitles are too small.

[@fabiang5915]

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@selinacollard325]

AMAZING U R A RELIC STILL LIVING U R A BRAVE SINCERE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT BUT WHAT AN AMAZING STORY U TRAVELLED SO FROM FROM YOUR HOMELAND R A SURVIVOR KEEP GOING YOU BRAVE LADY JEHOVAH GOD HAS SEEN YOUR SUFFERING AND HARD LIFE U HAVE ENDURED YOUR STORY OF HOPE COURAGE AND YOUR POWERFUL SPIRIT THAT HAS KEPT U GOING U CAN WRITE A BOOK OF YOUR LIFE AND HOPE THANK U

[@uros7686]

Forgot to take your pils?

[@maryannmostek7318]

What is common amongst Ukrainians is,that culturally they seem to avoid unpleasant past and focus on present and future. Past seems to be discussed mainly if pleasant. Maybe that is key to their ability to survive and eventually thrive again

[@YesItsReallyKeith]

SLAVA UKRAINI !!! Always !!!

[@YesItsReallyKeith]

@Supra RCJPOP this will be the last time Ruzzians attack any country !! you are on the wrong side of history !!

[@MegaVero23]

@Rabbi Shmuel Shekelbaum it was allways Russia

[@YesItsReallyKeith]

@Rabbi Shmuel Shekelbaum wrong again !!! we have access to information in free democratic countries !!!

[@BlutoandCo]

​@@MegaVero23 its never been ruSSia. History shows Ukraine was around before moscow was a village.

[@MegaVero23]

@@BlutoandCo 1920

[@edl6398]

So strange she said 7 years. My great uncle was a member of the Polish Resistance and spent 7 years in a Siberian Gulag. I wonder if that was the standard sentence. He was an amazing and empathetic person but boy, did he hate the Russians after surviving that. Btw, UNILAD, your subtitle font size is ridiculously small. Give us old farts and low vision folks a break. 😢

[@GeologicalNerd]

I second your want gor larger print. Had my phone 2 inches from my face! Haha

[@edl6398]

@@GeologicalNerd Glad I’m not the only one. I actually watched it on my TV and had to stop.

[@JSG205]

good thing she clutched up so she could share her story, the least she could have done was clip it...

[@eliseestes4187]

What a bad ass.

[@daveyvane9431]

How could she ever correspond with the guy in Asia, from her in Poland, when they were both in gulag camps?

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Can we have video about imperialism Labor cam in Asia and Africa

[@WendyHayden-uv6tr]

Grammy pat... ? Or .,... I've got the same mole ...😊

[@Essex_Rs]

Honestly thought this was the Queen in some undercover interview by the thumbnail

[@smalltownn]

Gangster granny

[@andrushkathegiant]

І вам слава, сині гори, Кригою окуті. І вам, лицарі великі, Богом не забуті. Борітеся - поборете! Вам Бог помагає!🙏🏻🫖☕💙💛всім чай Як понесе з України. У синєє море. Кров ворожу... отойді я. І лани і гори -. Все покину, і полину. До самого Бога. Молитися..🙏🏻🫖☕💙💛всім узвар "Не дуріте самі себе, учітесь, читайте, і чужому научайтесь, й свого не цурайтесь. Бо хто матір забуває, того Бог карає, того діти цураються, в хату не пускають….Обніміте ж, брати мої, найменшого брата - нехай мати усміхнеться, заплакана мати. Благословить дітей своїх твердими руками і діточок поцілує вольними устами. І забудеться срамотня давняя година, і оживе добра слава, Слава України" ("І мертвим, і живим, і ненародженим…")🙏🏻🫖☕💙💛всім квас

[@maryhildreth754]

Subtitles make this something you cant listen to while doing other things.

[@louieashby351]

First

[@fusilier9276]

Russia was no better than Nazi Germany. Massive respect to this courageous woman❤

[@whiskeyactual.]

Stalin was worse than Hitler and Japan was far more brutal than anyone, even before WWII started. Stories like Her's are usually overshadowed because of histories hyperfocus of Nazi Germany.

[@Ratzo123ify]

If the Gulags were on the same level as the nazi concentration camps this video would not be possible. The USSR was not "good" (no state really is) but comparing it to Nazi Germany is wildly ignorant.

[@whiskeyactual.]

@@Ratzo123ify No one said that Gulags were on "the same level" as Nazi Concentration camps. I said Stalin was worse than Hitler. For one, he straight out killed 20-40million of his own citizens. I mentioned nothing of camps. You need to work on your reading comprehension skills.

[@gubilex]

Why only Russia? Ukraine was part of the USSR. The head of the USSR, Khrushchev, was a Ukrainian. Joseph Stalin was Georgian. A huge number of Ukrainians worked for the KGB.

[@BlutoandCo]

​@@gubilex and?

[@cosmoskid4613]

5th

[@jumpgipson]

so she was resisting the russians and polish communists until 1945... but not the germans?

[@jackendean5368]

She doesn’t look like your standard warzone player

[@gafak47]

Someone from Palestine next...

[@mattvanemden7573]

labour*

[@DataRew]

Watching this, I have two thoughts. Ukraine: Keep up your fight! Thank you. and: I hope to god that no RNC presidents are elected in the US anytime soon, since the frontrunners have openly championed ideas that would lead this nation there.

[@awycz]

Poland was never communist but was under the deep influence of Soviet Union. I respect her and all she went through however it’s a shame she didn’t reflect on the fact how much Poland is supporting Ukraine and its people at the moment.

[@edl6398]

The Russians occupied Poland in the East during WWIII. That’s not deep influence. That’s violent aggression. Also, it’s highly likely that this was filmed before the invasion of Ukraine. These videos aren’t uploaded the day after they are recorded. A person like her would not deliberately leave something like that out.

[@awycz]

The last bit of the interview is about Russian invasion of Ukraine in fact 🤷‍♀️

[@BlutoandCo]

Its 16 minutes. It would take hours to thank every country that is supporting Ukraine (and alot of those same countries are supporting poland with help as well)

[@riverdeep399]

She may have, this has probably been heavily edited.

[@awycz]

@@BlutoandCo I meant to mention brotherly relation now between Poland and Ukraine as a contrary to being judged there and sent to gulag. And no, no other country did ever as much as Poland.

[@STRIKEY_MnK1]

I survived many gulags, don’t hear me bragging about it

[@WangAiHua]

Then shut up and stop bragging about you not bragging!

[@luka3945]

Russian man: Welcome to ze gulag, you fight for your survival (CoD)

[@josh3476]

chronically online

[@kilowhiskey1749]

WAIT??? HAS QUEEN ELIZABETH BEEN RELEASED FROM THE GULAG?

[@iHatePolitics]

0/10.

[@sarven5974]

ukro nationalist who was basically for the SS