What is Russia ashamed of? | Perm 36 GULAG prison camp

Lately Russian propaganda has been justifying the GULAG camps. On May 26, 2021 the largest news agency RIA Novosti published an article explaining that Stalin's labor camps were not so terrible anymore, but on the contrary, Stalin’s camps were useful for the citizens.
I've decided to make this video so that more people know what Gulag really is, learn its history and what life there was like.
Perm 36 is the only GULAG camp (Soviet union forced labor camp) that was preserved in Russia, and everything here is kept the way when the camp functioned. All the other camps were demolished after dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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[@DerrickRuthless]

Very educational and yes you are right - "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

There is an interesting equilibrium in between acknowledging and denying background. I think that most Russian's recognize that many people who were compelled to the labour camps were not offenders however at the same time, they really feel that a Stalin type character was required during this moment in the Soviet Union. We can not transform the past but we can accept it. Excellent or poor. Can I ask, what was it that at first made you enjoy the very first video clip on this channel? I have been making video clips regarding life in Russia for 4 years and also I'm looking into for my very own channel.

[@frankiethebull8269]

That's why White Supremacists need to be eradicated from US soil.

[@wendyb9851]

@@frankiethebull8269 Turn off the main stream media and open you eyes.

[@timl3918]

Tell that to the asswipes taking down the statues around the US because their "feelings" are hurt!

[@Warcrimeenthusiast]

@@frankiethebull8269 what does that have to do with communist gulags comrade ?

[@SasaMic]

To see someone as young as you making a video about such a hard and difficult history, to talk about at all in your own country is amazing. Keep going Eli, you are doing a great job, and honoring many people!

[@LasArmas_]

Please be safe Eli

[@adiosa1388]

should be ashamed of raping everything on their way to get hitler also for enslaving and planting puppet governments in other countries while exterminating intelligence in them coz they went pass the land but didnt bother to leave and forced their rule yes u should be ashamed

[@LasArmas_]

@fkujakedmyname exactly!!!!

[@LasArmas_]

@fkujakedmyname and hitler was much worse, and Japan with Unit 761 or whatever

[@aegaeon117]

There is no "worse" to the ones that endured any of those.

[@tomkeller6982]

Eli, thank you. I am 71 yr old man in america and greatly enjoyed you tour of the camp and explanations. This is very relevant for us here as we face many similar changes going on. Your final comment was especially important. I'm grateful for the way you are speaking up.

[@distantthunder12ck55]

It's heading that way all over the western nations. Here in England we have already lost free speech. People are being shamed and silenced for views, opinions etc. We're already on the slippery slope to the gulag.

[@Stefiiiz]

What changes do you mean?

[@k1godwin361]

My grandfather was taken as Hungarian soldier to a working camp for 5 years, but his soul did not break. He arrived home and went on with life. He lived 93 years, never was at a doctor, never complained. I remember he mentioned a Bashkir official who visited him and said we are small but brave nations. So not everybody was so hostile. It was few food mostly potato peel or fish. We must emphasise that this video is a very brave recognition with the harshness of the past. But nowaday Russians are not those who built these places, so I feel that Eli is very brave to present from a genuine Russian angle and now we see that even Russians were taken and suffered. Those were that times but past has passed. Now we have to build new friendships and alliances and focus on the present and future. High five for you Eli!

[@advocateincometaxgst1880]

Eli, may peace be on you as well

[@Voegelchen15]

you build friendships by killing your neighbours?

[@florianmeier3186]

​@@sovietheart3883 World becomes easy if everyone who does not agree to you is a fascist. Good luck with that. By the way: Everone who loves USSR would hate todays Russia as it destroys all its achievements and rememberance probably forever.

[@nikolatomic5287]

@@sovietheart3883 don't talk nonsense. most of the victims of gulags were russians.

[@sovietheart3883]

@@nikolatomic5287 Most of the victims were fascists and other criminals

[@ConstantinDV]

It strikes me that ignoring and intentionally forgetting the crimes we subject each other is an unforgivable sin. It is so gratfying and humbling that young people are not averting their gaze and confront the truth. Bravo Eli!

[@koschkv7216]

@Jebus Hypocristos Are you serious?

[@levlev4048]

Well.... Tf do schools not teach about their own gulags. Why doesn't media discuss that??

[@levlev4048]

Just hating on Stalin I see👀. Rewriting history....

[@studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272]

It is a sin against God and the victims of these crimes !

[@violetsrayreikishop2]

America doing the same and will learn the hard way unfortunately

[@windsurfing47]

This is one of the best vlog I have ever seen. Very informative and it touches one of the most important event in Russia's modern history. Hope this type of atrocities will never be repeated.

[@ZER0ZER0SE7EN]

@@ElifromRussia yes this can not be repeated anywhere. "You can ignore history, but history will not ignore you."

[@buddha2845]

@@ElifromRussia revolution always demand blood and deaths to survive,,those who opposed the revolution,and did every espionage to harm revolution,was the reason ,, Stalin had to adopt cruelty

[@tamil8379]

@@ElifromRussia goulash is a name version of balash,balázs and even wales, wallace, or vologases (oleg, olga) past is very very different, gulag was a destruction camp of filks knew about history the real kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3uWgZ-kn5qDldU

[@iosis2009]

Still happening in China

[@tamil8379]

@@iosis2009 china was black 150 years ago...

[@CanadianPrepper]

Great tour, and historical overview- great content

[@PatrickGodreault]

Wow, I see you. lol, have a great day!

[@BradleyVanTreese]

Thank you for sharing this, Eli. I hope this is viewed widely. It is terrifying, saddening, and infuriating with equal measure. People everywhere need to be reminded / remember what happened in the past so that we have a chance of not repeating these mistakes.

[@sovietheart3883]

We should build more gulags.

[@christophetetu3948]

So you will be the first new resident.@@sovietheart3883

[@TomaszModelski]

Thanks. I'm from Poland, in our history there's also strong memory of Gulag camps. Many poles where sentenced and send to gulags in Russia / Soviet Union.

[@ioanmarianbalau8762]

same here in romania but the russians call you butthurt if you poit out that communism was evil. you criticise stalin or the whole ussr for that matter you are a nazi and a revisionist, you point out they treated their neighbors especially from the baltic through poland and romania badly taking swats of their land-again your butthurt. I thought they learned something from history but it appears they dont and contrary to the germans they would never adist they were wrong or say i m sorry. I generally find polish russian or romanian russian enmity senseless but in the last few days i tried to speak to russians trough telegram or twitter or youtube acounts and see why they are still clinging to bolshevism and to restoring ussr and guess what- in the vast majority support this shit. I m done and it appears russia will always remain hostile to romania poland and everyone around they seek our lands although they cant proper manage their own- moscow their best city has average salary less than romania the worst probably run country in eu-give me a break

[@teloresumoasinomas1110]

*In Poland there were concentration camps and extermination camps made by Nazi Germany. While in the USSR they had forced labor camps that came from the Russian empire at the time of tsarism. In the Gulag they should be restored so that all anti-communists, capitalists, imperialists, liberals, conservatives, fascists, Nazis, revisionists among other criminals can go.*

[@reka2342]

And many Hungarians as well.

[@SatjaSarvate]

Many people from the Baltic countries as well. This is the memory we have of Russian occupation - the soviet union times. Imagine being occupied and having to endure this horror for wanting to resist that...

[@hellothere1123]

@@reka2342 unfortunately unlike Poles, Ukrainians, people of Baltics - Hungarians did not made any conclusions about that!!! What a shame that you have Orban agent of Kremlin as president…

[@Silphwave]

Came here after watching Bald's trip to Perma 36. Very important piece of history, I unfortunately believe we'll this again in my lifetime.

[@Ealsante]

We will? This is still happening, now, in many places.

[@jillwase6116]

North Korea, China, south Africa all still happening now

[@Silphwave]

@@Ealsante Sorry, I should have specified I mean the Western developed world.

[@Silphwave]

@@jillwase6116 Yeah I've read all about the North Korean camps. "Nothing to Envy" is a very insightful read and "The Aquariums of Pyongyang". The Chinese internment camps for Uyghur's are despicable too. I believe we'll see re-education camps in the next decade for those that resist the new global paradigm.

[@nom5205]

yess...came after Bald. But bald seemed to have been shut out. he didn't show much. I am glad I came here

[@janicem4382]

This makes me want to just sit and cry. I think every country in the world has a history of this kind of atrocity involving one group of people or another. I say this not to minimize it in any way but to keep people from thinking, “it is them, but not us”. You are an incredibly talented woman. We are so lucky to have your broadcasts.

[@sovietheart3883]

Dont believe in the anticommunist propaganda. Gulags were built to save humanity from fascism. Only criminal fascists were arrested and sentenced to gulag.

[@florianmeier3186]

No, not every country has. It is German and SU history to push mass murder to that extend noone else.

[@sovietheart3883]

@@florianmeier3186 The soviet union fought mass murders. First germany, than the US. Only imperialists can be mass murders and imperialism evolves out of capitalism.

[@folksurvival]

In the majority of cases there is a common cause.

[@yelenashishkina8804]

Georgians should pay for atrocities committed by Stalin and Beria. Till today they did not acknowledged responsibility for Stalin and Beria deeds.

[@jackiepollard3843]

Love watching your videos, Elie! Thank you for sharing your life and travels. ✌💜🇨🇦 praying for the 'special operation' to end soon as possible. Stay 💪 strong and stay safe!

[@fragfeister2000]

Eli, bless you for what you've done. I teach middle schoolers in the U.S. and we viewed your video in class. Seeing Perm brought what they read to life. Thank you!

[@bingusmctingus4395]

No, thank YOU for properly educating the next generation of people of the horrors of communism/socialist pursuits of “utopia”. Not many teachers are doing what you’re doing.

[@benangel3268]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's wife Natalya Reshetovskaya described him as a despot and a liar in her book Sanya: My life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was also accused of being a CIA agent.

[@charlesthompson9889]

u gay?...eh

[@samflintham1360]

@@benangel3268 Conservative estimates are that 1.5 to 1.7 million political prisoners died as a result of their detention in the Gulags between 1930 & 1953 - The American Historical Review 123 Others claim many more. Millions went through these camps and some are still alive who remember them.

[@samflintham1360]

Good for you Keith.

[@thomas5714]

"Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - - but right through every human heart - - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even within the best of all hearts there remains - - an uprooted small corner of evil." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[@benangel3268]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's wife Natalya Reshetovskaya described him as a despot and a liar in her book Sanya: My life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was also accused of being a CIA agent.

[@snakeace0]

@@benangel3268 Ah a gulag denier. I cram you into the same drawer as flat earthers. No amount of evidence would make you see that your ideologies are standing on the corpses of millions of innocent lives lost.

[@inTruthbyGrace]

​@@snakeace0 well in ALL fairness to flat earthers there ARE absolute and FIXED limits of spherical trigonometry GOVERNING what MUST be hidden "behind the curve" of a "globe" with a radius of 3,949 miles ...and no one has actually explained why we can photograph Anacapa Arch from Ventura beach, or Corsica or Elba from Genova....But as far as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is concerned.. GOD HIMSELF has confirmed that that corner of evil can only be uprooted by the LIGHT that is Jesus Christ when He said... "THIS is the condemnation: Light has come into the world but men love darkness rather than light BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS are EVIL and everyone who does evil hates the LIGHT and will NOT come to the LIGHT lest their deeds be reproved... BUT he that does TRUTH, comes to the LIGHT that their deeds will be made manifest that they are wrought in GOD." *_~JESUS_* (John 3:19-21)

[@snakeace0]

@@inTruthbyGrace The physics of light refraction want to have a word with you. One of the strongest voices in the flat earth community noticed his logical fallacies in the middle of a stream when someone explained it to him and he went to check himself. To his credit , he accepted that he was wrong. But the moment you started quoting from the Bible , was the moment i stopped taking you seriously. Religion is a personal matter, treat it as such.

[@ghostmourn]

Yes. I can attest to the utter truth of that statement! We are all bitterly angry and joyously grateful. passionately violent in both love and war. It is to be human I think. We are only a day away from the gulag or maybe paradise

[@mercychesed4104]

My family are Mennonites who came to Canada from Russia shortly after the revolution. But my great grandmothers brother stayed behind and was killed along with his wife. Fortunately before this happened they gave their twin daughters to a Russian couple so they survived and grew up not knowing they were actually German Mennonites until much later in life. During a time of famine one of the twin girls was accused of stealing potatoes and sent to Gulag. Years later they and their grandchildren found us in Canada and visited. I read The Gulag Archipelago as a teenager. It taught me so much about how to face suffering that would come later in my life. My favourite chapters are the section called The Soul and Barbed Wire. I’m so glad that you are reading this book.

[@caiolima5016]

No

[@ax.f-1256]

Crazy isn't it ? There are German families which moved to Russia under Catherine the great, because Central Europe was so dangerous because of war and she invited them. Then their descendants were persecuted under the communists. Some of them moved back to Germany again. Only to be persecuted again for being "Russian" under H*tler so they moved back to the then USSR were persecuted again. Some of them left Europe all together and some of them are still living in Russia. Europe is sometimes just totally stupid. 🙄🙄

[@AFTR-FX]

Thanks to Eli, for producing this video - and your series in general. All of us are far more alike, than we are different... and travel truly does reinforce this happy fact. 😊

[@BryanJordanMusic]

Absolutely heartbreaking. Thank you for making this video, it was beautifully done.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

There is an intriguing balance in between acknowledging as well as refuting background. I believe that a lot of Russian's recognize that lots of people that were required to the labour camps were not crooks however at the same time, they really feel that a Stalin type personality was needed during this time in the Soviet Union. We can not alter the past however we can accept it. Great or negative. Can I ask, what was it that initially made you enjoy the initial video clip on this channel? I have actually been making video clips concerning life in Russia for 4 years and I'm looking into for my own channel.

[@benangel3268]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's wife Natalya Reshetovskaya described him as a despot and a liar in her book Sanya: My life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was also accused of being a CIA agent.

[@zerothm1]

This is Truly Haunting. The Human cost is just Staggering to the Imagination.

[@franzkafka293]

Perhaps. Nothing to do with Russia though. So the whole show is a propaganda hit piece by the CIA and Mossad.

[@bbltd.3154]

What cost? People are free in Russia. These gold camps still exist btw. 5000 tons of gold a year. Putin enslaves poor people, a d political adversaries with fake trials labeling them criminals. Sending them to prison camps.

[@bryanx5829]

Humans are a resource to be exploited and tossed into a hole when it is used up. That's how world leaders saw their people. Dont take it personal, it's just business. Did you notice how corporations have now taken that new role?

[@priestxman]

We in the west are so ignorant to history or we believe so unconditionally to the idea of progress that we need to be reminded of the sad realities of what totalitarianism can bring. Thank you for posting this and for your very honest work of presenting Russia through your eyes. God bless.

[@florianmeier3186]

That is not true. The West invests a lot in scientific excavation of history and education. There is maybe some aspects which are ignored and that is sad, but that there is ignorance towards history and "unconditional believe to the idea of progress" is so completely wrong. There are huge groups especially in Western societies which heavily doubt progress. I wish they would acknowledge more some recent achievements. And there are lots of clubs in Europe which try to keep history alive by replays, building and maintaining memorials, collecting and presenting letters, books and every day goods of specific periods in history and encourage young people to face it. There was also such thing in Russia, but forbidden and destroyed by current gouvernment which wants nobody to cover up their lies.

[@dwillbecancelledsoon4086]

@@florianmeier3186 Nonsense. The Western education system is dedicated to falsifying history, pushing a "6 million" narrative, while skimming over their allied atrocities. That's actually the only time they promote their own as good guys, the rest of the time is dedicated to wh1te guilt and promoting blak victimhood. Whether there are private clubs dedicated to preserving historical accuracy is kind of irrelevant if the bulk of the population is still just as indoctrinated as the average Russian. The average westerner might as well believe that Inglourious basterds was a documentary

[@florianmeier3186]

@@dwillbecancelledsoon4086 You can make strange assumptions about our educational system even that it is more or less the same in the whole "West", but by that it does not become true. In my case even at the same school the teaching was significantly different between several teachers and about black victimhood nobody ever talked even what you call a "6 million narrative", which I think is rather inappropriate for what happened in Schoah and also non Jewish Eastern Europe, was less present as you might think. The education was more focused on context and people than numbers. Further you should not forget that my generation was surrounded by people who witnessed that time and therefore brought another perspective. But it is poor, to excuse current criminal acts with the past or the education . And inglorious bastards plays a rather negligible role in our understanding of it. It was rather recent that I recognized that comedy.

[@waterrat4285]

You never read The Gulag Archipel by Solzjenitsyn? And now you dedicate your reportages to Russian 'filtration camps'. It's happening right in front of you. Don't miss this historical challenge.

[@HappyHermitt]

Speak for yourself. Youre a fool.

[@petebrandon8164]

Thank you again Eli - for your honesty and your presentation of a difficult subject. Unfortunately all nations have some dark periods in their history; also in Britain there has been much in our past that we would be ashamed of today- slavery, cruelty, poverty, - we should be honest and learn from our mistakes.

[@SenthilKumar-no4tt]

The colonization history, forgotten lol

[@rustyshackelford3371]

Thank you for keeping the story alive. In this day and age, we can all benefit from the lessons learned when a government jails/punishes people for their speech, beliefs, and profession. I value personal freedom and liberty even more after watching this video.

[@Automedon2]

Whenever there is strong national ideology and governments who want to force those ideologies, there will be punishments for those who stray or stand in the way.

[@scottyjonas7592]

@@Automedon2 do you think what you are describing, have any parallels with Covid and vaccine passports? Would appreciate your thoughts

[@Automedon2]

@@scottyjonas7592 Of course it does. Every public campaign is based on the same principle. Although it's cliche to relate everything to the Nazis, it's not that far off the mark. Take anti-smoking campaigns, for instance. It requires vilifying the 'offenders' - they're dirty, they are a danger to public health. their habit will cost you personally. The media drumbeat is constant - experts weigh in that indeed, these are horrible people. Once the tipping point of there being less than a quarter of the population still 'offending', the sky's the limit. Tax the bastards, shame them, feel free to openly express your disgust. Deny them jobs and housing. Yes, the Covid, media induced panic is the same. The new version of what the dictators did is the same. Take away their livelihoods and means of sustaining themselves for not complying. There are too many parallels to the even begin. Ever read 'The Scarlet Letter'?

[@scottyjonas7592]

@@Automedon2 I haven’t. I am young and naive to a lot of history. But from what I do know, I’m worried about where society is going. I’m going to look up Scarlett Letter now. Thanks for responding, I hope you are well wherever you are!

[@RushfanUK]

@@Automedon2 You're seriously equating a mass public health campaign to the actions of the Nazis, anti smoking campaigns were based on the simple fact that stopping people smoking actually reduces deaths from smoking related illnesses, I am pretty sure that the UK government weren't rounding up smokers, putting them in concentration camps, working them to death or just killing them to stop them smoking, I also doubt that the political intent anywhere was to actually kill as many citizens as possible through any governmental response to a serious public health issue as in the case of Covid. As for relating things to the Nazis that's something that those on the left wing of the political spectrum do, it's always a useful stick to beat anyone with when they don't agree with you, it's ironic though those on the far left like Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and so on were actually bigger monsters than Hitler but that never seems to bother the extreme left.

[@gberia1]

I love how all Russian KZbinrs that's I have watched, no matter how young, have a stand on life, society, politics and history. They are not bird brained or unaware like most youngsters of today. Events of the past has a lot to do with how the future generations behave, however, I'm glad that the future of Russia is sensible, empathetic and aware.

[@rd7726]

Nalvany?

[@jimjiminyjaroo300]

A lot of russians I’ve met say “we don’t know our history”.

[@user-cd5xw6ks2q]

@@jimjiminyjaroo300 Lies

[@sispugaloma9625]

@@rd7726 Rightfully deserved a gulag accommodation...

[@rubusroo68]

" bird brained or unaware like most youngsters of today" you haven't met " most youngsters" so that's a stupid & ignorant comment.

[@traceywright7790]

Thank you for posting these things. Peace and greetings from New Zealand ❤🇳🇿

[@X3r0.]

Thank you for not being silent, thank you for honouring your countries history so as it may not repeat itself anymore & thank you for trying to be the change you want to see in the world. I love your channel and wish I had found it sooner, but am grateful to have it now 🖖🏻🖤✨

[@justinbailey6515]

"people in Russia still discuss whether Stalin was right or wrong" - that's the scariest part of this documentary and almost a sure sign it will be repeated in the future.

[@kilx81]

Stalin mao and Hitler the biggest 3 mass murderers of all time... Hitler lost so most people agree that he was the most evil man in history. Had the 3rd Reich not been beaten this video could just as well been about kz camps and the words would have been said about Hitler instead. It's all about perspective.

[@SH-kn7ut]

It's already being repeated right here in the United States - people (American citizens) are being held without charges - sometimes for years at a time. The Marxist Democrats running our Government are following in the same foot steps as Russia's Soviets.

[@geoeconomics5629]

@@kilx81 And British empire invented concentration camps killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined we must remember

[@samfisher4247]

@@SH-kn7ut I was going to make this point but you beat me to it. Sad but your right this is the road we currently travel.

[@EasyGameEh]

it is being repeated right now

[@kristyaafa2191]

“Be silent, don’t draw attention to yourself, do not question, shhh don’t trust the neighbor’s ..” are all statements that I am so familiar with as they were said by my parent’s that modeled their own parents fear of saying the wrong thing, fear that the neighbor/teacher etc may turn you in for something that they saw or “heard”, it was easy to be deemed “enemy of the state” and receive a terrifying visit late at night to be taken in to be “interviewed”. A huge group that were deemed enemy of the state and sent to the gulags were anyone that practiced a religion. (Of which my grandparents and parents can relate) Eli, this is such an important content to share and pass down to generations and you did it with such grace, wisdom and courage!

[@evankant277]

What an amazing video! Humane, balanced with no emotional or rhetorical hyperboles. Excellent work miss!

[@ginenelafontaine8343]

Excellent work, Eli. I was horrified by what happened to the prisoners and delighted by the ending when you said "Peace."

[@davethebrahman9870]

Remember, this was about the best place you could end up in the camp ssystem. It was paradise compared to the mines in the Arctic circle, or the camp complex at Kolyma.

[@AmericanskyEnglish]

Yeah no kidding, you were not getting visitors in Vorkuta or somewhere up north of Magadan.

[@ep724]

And relegation at the end of the camp penalty should have been mentioned too. However very instructive.

[@davethebrahman9870]

@Fred Garvin You have completely missed the point I was making.

[@tbone9803]

@Fred Garvin Bro compared to Norilsk, Vorkuta, Road of Bones or Magadan, I'd feel lucky to be at Perm 36 in comparison

[@larryfisherman6449]

@Fred Garvin are you purposely missing the point ?

[@franzliszt4257]

Eli, we love you. You are everything that I love about Russia. You show the brutal past but you also show Russia the beautiful. You do more for a positive image of Russia than the idiots that wallow in Soviet pride. You are a true Russian patriot. You are like my daughter and just like her, your English is excellent.

[@dmitridmitri8731]

В Советском Союзе был не только гулаг.

[@sc1ss0r1ng]

Hello Mr. Liszt, just wanna say, I'm a big fan of your work. Sooo... Is there any new pieces on the way atm? Maybe, a new bunch of Hungarian Rhapsodies? Or a new Etude? Oh boy, I sure hope there's an Etude in there!

[@jessewilson8676]

And being a “hot redhead”. Helps...

[@benangel3268]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's wife Natalya Reshetovskaya described him as a despot and a lie in her book Sanya: My life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was also accused of being a CIA agent.

[@LeeGee]

@@benangel3268 Everyone was described as a CIA agent. I guess they were correct sometimes, but Mrs Solzhenitsyn has also been described in unpleasant terms, the kindest of which was apparatchik.

[@mikipeltier1036]

God Bless you. I am learning so much from you. I pray you will not be stopped from continuing your channel. Miki from Minnesota USA.

[@fredmtucker]

Superb documentary talent. Absolutely excellent quality of video and commentary. Eli is awesome!

[@HK-gm8pe]

Thank you from the bottom of my heart that you are educating people about this! my great grandfather died in there

[@benangel3268]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's wife Natalya Reshetovskaya described him as a despot and a liar in her book Sanya: My life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was also accused of being a CIA agent.

[@cnote3598]

@@benangel3268 smear tactics. she may have been threatened

[@UMORIEGA]

@@cnote3598 In reality that book was written and published by KGB. If he was so bad, why did they remarry second time?

[@cnote3598]

@@UMORIEGA exactly .. I never said he was bad, or are you being cheeky? ;P She didn't even write it I bet. If so, "a gun was to her head."

[@UMORIEGA]

@@cnote3598 I refer to that Ben angel troll's comment. He is spamming it under every comment on this video:)

[@cliffcollins2497]

Thank you for revealing this. I know it was hard. Every nation has has its shameful acts in the pass but we must learn and rise above all this. Take care!

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

There is an interesting balance between acknowledging and denying history. I think that most Russian’s acknowledge that many people who were forced to the labour camps were not criminals but at the same time, they feel that a Stalin type character was needed during this time in the Soviet Union. We cannot change the past but we can embrace it. Good or bad. Can I ask, what was it that initially made you watch the first video on this channel? I have been making videos about life in Russia for 4 years and I’m researching for my own channel.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

@@streettails8045 I think you are confused. I wrote about the general feeling amongst Russian’s and I wrote that Russian’s acknowledge that most of the people who were sent to gulags were not criminals.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

@@streettails8045 no I’m not Russian but I’ve lived in Russia for 17 years. I was referring to to the feeling that Russian’s generally feel that a strong character was needed. It’s always been so throughout history, Russian’s have historically had a strong leader. Stalin is a hero from the war against fascism and that is how he is portrayed. I understand that he did horrible things and that you are against him.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

@@streettails8045 again. I’m talking about how he is viewed and portrayed in Russia. I don’t know why you have taken offence to me.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

@@streettails8045 so in your view Russia is for Russian’s?

[@rudetoy8264]

Another incredible narrative of Soviet past. Your vlog brings to light what people wanted to know about Gulag; who imprisoned there, why were they there, how long were their sentence, living condition, their punishments… wow! Keep up the good work👍

[@martinskesteris8664]

You might like this gulag documentary then m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqG0iKt_q7eYgas&pp=ygUadGhlIHNvdmlldCBzdG9yeSBnZW5vY2lkaW8%3D

[@BillatBYP]

As I worked primarily in Vermont, U.S.A. I drove by his home many times. Locals say he was a bit recluse and mostly kept to himself. Really enjoyed this video Eli. Thank you so much for your education.

[@dorotamaty888]

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn lived in Vermont. I just learned that.

[@HappyHermitt]

Who, Bernie the commie?

[@sovietheart3883]

He was a fascist.

[@MrZigan4ik]

In Russia we have a saying about those times: "Половина страны сидит, половина охраняет." which can be translated like "Half of the country are behind the bars and the other half are guards."

[@franzkafka293]

The half that ''sat'' and died were mostly Christian. The part that guarded and murdered them were mostly Jews. It was not half and half though. Prisoners and victims numbered in the millions, while the killers numbered in the tens of thousands at most.

[@JR-wf5kg]

@@franzkafka293 Yea, the more I learn about the Russian "revolution" the more I understand why they don't teach us about it in America. I was shocked to learn that the first soviet government consisted of essentially no Russians or how Christians were specifically targeted and prosecuted.

[@jth4242]

@@JR-wf5kg No Russians? They certainly spoke Russian. You can't count Russian-Jews as "not Russian" and count Russian-Christian as "indeed Russian".

[@alltheframes9015]

@UCQ8gRc3GO_nuV1KJQTR1nfg you're full of shit my guy and what you just said is pure BS. The first people to be touched and killed by the revolution, and later sent and tortured in the camps for decades on end, was anyone that was considered "an agent of capitalism" or a "reactionary". And yes, among those people were christian and believers (that part of your statement is partially true). But do you know who also was part of those groups of dissidents? Business owners or farmers who were mildly or extremely successful. There were Jews among those people. Many of them goldsmiths and metalworkers in big cities.

[@alltheframes9015]

@@franzkafka293 what you said is not true. It is true that among those affected by the revolution and later in the gulags were christians. But the Jews were just as affected as the christians, and antisemitism was just as rampant in Russia as it was in other parts of Europe. And it seems it is also rampant in this comment section. Fk youtube

[@frankswarbrick7562]

Thank you, Eli. Very depressing, but very important to remember.

[@wwlittlejOfficial]

In America, we quickly forgot in the last 5 years or so...

[@peterbelanger4094]

Meanwhile, in Australia....

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

There is a fascinating equilibrium in between acknowledging as well as denying background. I assume that a lot of Russian's acknowledge that many people that were required to the labour camps were not wrongdoers but at the same time, they feel that a Stalin kind character was required throughout this moment in the Soviet Union. We can not change the past yet we can welcome it. Great or negative. Can I ask, what was it that initially made you see the initial video on this channel? I have actually been making videos regarding life in Russia for 4 years and also I'm researching for my very own channel.

[@Weisior]

@@SamsRussianAdventures Gulags were not domain of Stalin alone, this system functioned until the fortunate for the world fall of the Soviet Union. Were all soviet leaders which didnt put an end to brutal repressions required throughout the whole history of the Soviet Union? Russia is a country which has repressions written in its DNA. It didnt change and it wont change in the foreseeable future.

[@SpywareEverywhere]

@@Weisior Russia never had such exposure to outside ideas as she does today. Things are not the same as when the leaders controlled almost all information coming in and out of the country. The young can see how others live. It makes a difference. Even the girl who does this channel is included in those.

[@norm5785]

Wow, only one left intact. Thank you for giving such a wonderful overview of the Gulag. Such a large facility, with strict punishments. Thank you for sharing this with us, stay safe, from Henrico County Virginia

[@jimfisk4474]

Thanks for this info We truly live on a planet of sorrows But there is always hope for the future.

[@johnjeffers4362]

That was deeply moving and my respect for the Russian people has increased. Thank you for your work

[@vincentwarman8004]

How's your respect for Russia doing lately??

[@laus9953]

@@vincentwarman8004 the entities for whom my respect has gone down are Nato + the international military + financial industrial complex, who are meticulously staging this war. I'm still drawn to things like the authenticity and genuineness of Russian (and generally Eastern European) culture. those are examples of values which have been beaten out of western societies with the sick psy-op Hollywood + Disney culture, as well as the fake (and entirely CIA-crested) hippie - and flowerpower movement. the entire western established music industry is a clan-cult. the moment a musician "becomes successful", he becomes part of it.

[@vincentwarman8004]

@@laus9953 wow mate, you really do know your stuff don't you....with your brain you should run for Russian president & see how long it takes before you are locked up or killed by the fsb(kgb)

[@hellothere1123]

No respect to Russians who approve the war and nuclear black mail shame on Russia shame on Russians!!!!

[@hellothere1123]

@@laus9953 you can find conservative values and authenticity in Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine etc. Just try to come to eastern/Central Europe and compare us to Russians it would be your last journey!! It’s Russians who start genocide war against Ukrainian nation Ukrainian cultures it’s pure genocide what Russia has been doing lately. Actually in all it existence. Hopefully Russia will fell apart soon😊

[@jasonnorthcutt4008]

Greetings from America. You're very lovely and speak very good English. Thank you for the video. I am absolutely bewildered that believe it is the Russian government still preserves Linens corpse. I just don't understand why after all the horrors he's responsible for they would preserve and venerate his corpse even until modern times.

[@jamesauble8091]

Your words become ever more relevant in the time that passes since your published this video.

[@prasadrao2895]

Eli's way of explaining the Gulag without dwelling into personal stories is beautiful. Well done.

[@est6464]

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Read his book 200 years together

[@manfredneilmann4305]

I can't understand the last sentence of your comment.

[@Tryptaminedm]

@@manfredneilmann4305 He is saying to read Solzhenitsyn's lesser known book called "200 years together"

[@edselrios6417]

💝💘💖

[@sebji9581]

Do not read Solzhenitsyn! Very misleading fiction.

[@robbrown4621]

@@sebji9581 Oh please. He is Russia's greatest author of the second half of the 20th century...

[@davidwatkins1734]

You're a good soul, Eli. Love from Wales.

[@myview5840]

Blessed by the fairies.

[@benangel3268]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's wife Natalya Reshetovskaya described him as a despot and a lie in her book Sanya: My life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was also accused of being a CIA agent.

[@davidwatkins1734]

@@benangel3268 Yet Natalya waited for him whilst he was imprisoned and stayed with him for his entire life - I would suggest that you have never read her book.

[@benangel3268]

@@davidwatkins1734 She divorced him but did remarry him again later in life when he was older and calmer. However she divorced him again in 1973. She always vehemently defend him when he was accused of being a CIA agent. Even after divorcing him.

[@dmd7472]

@@benangel3268 ofc the critical point.... Whether he was a despot and a liar is irrelevant to the force of his writing and the truth of what was written. Attack that record? No. The rest is noise. But I'm just a poor black man. What do I know

[@user-su1es3wm1e]

Thanks for the info. God bless and take care, Eli.

[@hardtackbeans9790]

Very informative, Eli. Thank you for the tour.

[@resourcedragon]

You rightly mentioned the survivors of the Gulags and the families of those who perished there. There is the other side of the coin - the surviving guards and prison administrators who have never had to answer for their crimes against those who were sent to those camps.

[@teloresumoasinomas1110]

*What crime? The only crime is the spread of anti-communist propaganda that comes from the US, the UK, the European Union and Russia itself to alter the reality and history of the Soviet Union.*

[@johanmetreus1268]

Very true, but even more complicated than first glance gives, as the border between being a prisoner and becoming a guard was fluid. There are plenty of examples how systematic prisoners were promoted into guards or administrative staff in the camps, even becoming the head for the ministry. Likewise there are plenty of examples of the guards becoming prisoners, neither were the camp management immune.

[@vietle1479]

Crimes ? They just follow order from high level leaders, only one incharge is Stalin :p

[@EdwardPCampbell]

@@johanmetreus1268 Sounds typical of Stalin’s ‘divide and rule’ methods. It would be logical that the victim/perpetrator interchangeability would extend to the lowest status of Russians, not to mention ‘foreign spies’ (aka unfortunate tourists), all the way up to Generals in the Red Army. The result of Stalin’s Red Army Purge is that between October 1940 to February 1942, he heavily depleted his army’s officer class, even while fighting against Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa. Russians are never allowed to forget the comprehensively barbaric nature of the Soviet state. Still being preserved in spirit by ex-KGB Putin.

[@johanmetreus1268]

@@EdwardPCampbell , I can't honestly not tell how much of it was a deliberate strategy to keep control of the population, and how much was simply a result of the usual mish-mash typical for not only the Soviet system but the Nazi system as well. Using the White Sea Canal as example, it was decided the canal was a national priority, and the Gulag workers a strategic asset for not just the building project but for the production needed to transform the Soviet union to a modern society. Yet the prisoners not only had to work under terrible conditions without food, shelter and suitable clothing, they were given inadequate tools for the task. Commonly wooden sticks had to substitute pickaxes and bars, hands used instead of shovels... and when the canal was finished at a huge expense, it was too shallow to be of commercial use. The Nazi concentration camps suffered from a similar schizophrenia, where the Nazi leadership could never quite decide if the prisoners were an economical asset to be used in the interest of the Reich or national enemies of the state that should be disposed of quickest possible. The result was local and arbitrary decisions seemingly at random, as they were changed between the two extremes frequently for no apparent reason.

[@MussaKZN]

Imagine a young KZbinr talking about something interesting and historical. Thanks subscribed !!

[@ancabulc9707]

Thanks for sharing this part of the history. It reminds me of some Romanian writers who were sent to prison, describing some similar condițions. You are a very good blogger. Please Keep on Posting:) Kindest regards and warm greetings from Romania:)

[@angelblohm2171]

Thank you so much for your excellent journalism. You are honest, sensitive, smart and brave. Thank you for all of your videos. Ironically, I found you BECAUSE of the actions of your ruler. I love the way you describe history.

[@logicaredux5205]

What a powerful video! We must never forget.

[@logicaredux5205]

@@ElifromRussia - Today, I am much more concerned about such detention facilities for the “politically incorrect” becoming a reality one day in the so called democratic West as it becomes more Globalist and Socialist. It must not happen!

[@geoeconomics3067]

@@logicaredux5205 correct GULAG is very very close 2021-2022

[@raclark2730]

@@logicaredux5205 Those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. It should not be about racial guilt as some are pushing these days, it should be about doing better in the now.

[@bargainbassist]

@@logicaredux5205 Since only a very slim minority of the population in the West are even remotely “woke” (a phenomenon that is largely a pasttime for bored, white, upper-middle class trust fund babies) your claim has no foundation in fact. No government that is currently a liberal Western-style democracy (despite all their faults) can also at once be a repressive communist dictatorship. If that were true, then it would completely negate the fact that it is a liberal Western-style democracy. You cannot flip a coin and have it land heads *and* tails simultaneously. Your nickname is humorously ironic, because the alarmism in your post defies basic logic.

[@logicaredux5205]

@@bargainbassist - I never mentioned the phenomenon of “woke.” I mentioned Globalism and Socialism. You equate an ephemeral passing fad with real forces that are changing the entire West and it’s understanding of itself. Please get it right before you criticize.

[@szilviasass5609]

Eli, I think you are one of the rare youtubers who share really useful, important and interesting content. All my respect to you for that. I love you videos and especially this one. As a historian I can underpin each word you were saying. And also like your summary at the end of the video.

[@buddysilver5788]

YOU TUBE: The Communist Holocaust in Eastern Europe (Master-minded By Atheistic Jews)

[@covacostica8960]

Reconcilierea cu trecutul și cu cei din jurul tău începe cu recunoașterea adevărului oricît de incomod este....Bravo Eli de această dată...

[@juliomenezes7839]

hi from far Brasil. thx Elina for your work.

[@chrisgibson6055]

Eli, thank you so much for this! You and your work are greatly appreciated!👍

[@paritoshbanik6936]

Eli, I too an alumnus of RUDN University, but studied during Soviet period. Zhil v pervom bloke. I stayed with russian friends in my room. Interestingly, I didn't hear anything of this kind. Only thing I knew that Perm was a closed ( zakrity) gorod and we foreigners were not allowed to go. I'm really shocked to watch the video.

[@MattNineFive]

Its great to see some light on such a dark time. Something more people need to be aware of and your video does a great job at showing. Thank you for another great video Eli!

[@onceavo.11]

@@ElifromRussia I love your English pronunciation. I'm learning English, and every word of yours I could understand it. I congratulate you for sharing that part of the history of the ex- USSR (CCCP). Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽

[@kildarealeksen4140]

@@ElifromRussia You have to show the Russians communist terror. Another thing, how do you leave two kids in the driveway?

[@kildarealeksen4140]

@@learn-italian-with-martino The point is: the children were in a dangerous place. So it's not kidnapping, but warning.

[@nomayor1]

@@ElifromRussia Your "pleasure" is your historical ignorance. You have to understand, not justify of course, but understand, why there were gulags. And to begin from the beginning, why did the Bolsheviks revolt? Why did the Revolution happen? The Revolution happened because until Lenin, the Russian people were practically slaves, all of them. It was the Revolution that quite literally set them free. It was nothing less than what Spartacus tried to do, 2,500 years ago. Especially around the times of Stalin, the memories of slavery were still quite fresh. So it was to be expected that the enemies of the Revolution and of the Communist party, would be quite literally seen as enemies of the Russian people, and be treated like so. One of the grave mistakes of the USSR from the time of Khrushchev and onward, was that the USSR stopped teaching at the schools why did the Revolution happen. What was the situation of the Russian people, before the Revolution. How was the West allowed to make jumps and leaps forward in the scientific and industrial sections under the Czar, whose only concern was to leave a life of obscene lavishness. Go study the History of your Country you little girl. Learn what the Russian People went through. Learn how hard the road has been for your People: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWWtp5eLjK9soM0

[@kildarealeksen4140]

@@learn-italian-with-martino If we see any risky situation, we must report it to the authorities; if we see someone in danger, we must help.

[@atlantasportflyingllc5541]

Thank you for a very informative and well presented video, great channel, videos are much better than main stream documentaries.

[@retafmil]

Elina, what a brave thing to do - and particularly at this point in time. I am amazed at your courage, but also thankful that you would share this information. It's history and interesting to know about. You help me to understand and *Like* the Russian people. Thank you for that! -Carey from Michigan

[@georgepolasky9809]

Wonderful video, Eli. Great narration and knowledge of Stalin’s horrors. Thank you.

[@mgntstr]

I like the cannibal Island, Stalin's crowning achievement.

[@alphadog007]

We need more people like you! Thanks for the vid and for sharing this history with the new generation of kids that have no idea how bad things can get.

[@enghazi1]

Much respect for making this one, Eli.

[@cawag98]

Interesting video - one of your best. Thanks! Bravo for the last minute...

[@jukesd1597]

Amazing video!! Great presentation, editing and summary for others to understand what they are seeing and why it happened/why you are showing it. G-d Bless you:)

[@bargainbassist]

Your courage as well as conscience to make this video proves that you are a more beautiful soul than I already believed you are.

[@ernstwiltmann6]

Bargainbassist It takes a lot more courage in the US, to bring up the Ùntold History of the United States kzbin.info?search_query=Oliver+Stone+%C3%99ntold+History+of+the+United+States by Oliver Stone . The organization `The American endowment for Democracy ` invest massively in other countries, like Russia, Cuba and Venezuela, just to name a few, to support articles like this one from Eli.

[@douglaspowell7627]

Russia in my mind has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of in my opinion.. any people that overcome and thrive after all that history.. extremely commendable.!!!🌹🌹

[@ladeedaa]

I have learned about this stuff in wold history and in my own studies! Thank you so much for all your personal work and sharing this to the world. My generation don't know much about soviet era or Russian history in general! I really do appreciate all hard work you put into these videos. Thank you!!!

[@MonteOlsen]

This is an exceptional video, bravely presented. Your country sure has changed. Be happy and optimistic. Laugh and enjoy your life. It'd a choice you can make, and your attitude will surely spread to others. Thank you fkr such a well dome video presentation.

[@hershellacey9405]

Shows you how quickly things can change.

[@carlgriffiths8482]

Having grown up during the cold war in the UK I find the history of the former Soviet Union and Russia absolutely fascinating Fantastic video Love your work

[@Southlander1000]

I have a master's degree in history. "Pretending that the past doesn't exist ... is foolish." That is exactly the historian's curse: watching those who don't study history repeat it because they were foolish and thought it didn't matter. I greatly appreciate that you took the time to not only visit this important place, but to make a video about it. Anyone who thinks it can't happen in their country is a fool indeed. Given the right circumstances, it definitely can. Even in the US during World War II we had camps for those who were of Japanese ancestry. I distinctly remember the two days where this was the topic of lecture in one of my history courses. What really stood out to me was this: some camp commanders would sign the death certificate of a prisoner in front of the prisoner and make sure they could never leave. This would become a form of torture, especially in the mining camps. As long as the prisoner remained physically alive, it would mean more production with less input making the camp look good. If the prisoner finally died, it would be less expense, also making the camp look good. Either way, recalcitrant prisoners would lose. Even those who survived were broken in body and spirit, just as you say. Solzhenitsyn was a brilliant writer and should be required reading for every college or university student. He was ready to critique East and West alike and point out the ills in society and culture openly and frankly. For those in the West who haven't already, PLEASE read his commencement address given at Harvard on 8 June 1978.

[@tittiger]

History A set of mutually agreed upon lies

[@Southlander1000]

@@tittiger Sometimes that is true. Not usually, though, except in war and conquest where the winning side gets the sole choice of what is remembered.

[@user-sj1jj4mi1p]

🎯🎯🎯

[@user-sj1jj4mi1p]

​@@tittigerAgreed, but fortunately, there are those who utterly destroy myths. Like Thomas DiLorenzo, who most accurately and unmercifully exposes the Lincoln cult.

[@HarrryClaudeLaBar]

Fantastic informative video. Thank you.

[@teamuller]

Since Nawalny we know, that these Gulags still insists in Sibiria!!!

[@doublezmtnman]

Thank you for your presentation. My grandparents suffered under the Nazis then fled post WW2 Ukraine to escape the Communist. It's saddening that in less than 100 years many children are not being taught about the millions upon millions of innocent people murdered under Totalitarian governments across the globe.

[@MrChipMC]

Sosialist are in charge in many countries. They don't want to promote crimes of their predecessors.

[@floxy20]

Currently in Moscow there's a theme park dedicated to Communism. Actors have been hired to portray Stalin and Lenin, much like Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Disneyland.

[@vishyswa]

Why do you suppose we hear so much about the Holocaust and so little about the Holodomor?

[@floxy20]

@@vishyswa Because Leftist atrocities were/are ultimately carried out in the name of Goodness. You see, that is all that is required for the feeble minded to give them a pass. "If it had only been carried out differently it would have been a grand success."

[@doublezmtnman]

@@vishyswa good question I don't know the answer to that

[@TomasSwiftMetcalfe]

Beware censorship, mandates and totalitarianism. Thank you for this, it's good to be reminded from time to time.

[@adolfgaming1761]

Lets go Brandon.

[@isisstarlights]

@@adolfgaming1761 it’s not funny if everybody knows about it…

[@Matzieu1]

Ironic isn’t it.

[@stevoschannel4127]

You are an AMAZING chronicler of history. VERY VERY well done.

[@mathtick]

This is amazing work! And I imagine brave if things are as not great at it seems they are on the outside. Stay safe and stay strong!

[@ghostmourn]

Thank you, that was really fascinating. I'm really captured by the history of the Soviet Union. When I was a boy we had an exchange student from the Leningrad choir. I still have the money and books he gave us as a gift, I've been fascinated ever since

[@GEEKICIDALTENDENCIES]

frighteningly enlightening Thank you for the upload Eli. From Canada

[@user-qv4uf1cx5h]

Hi Eli, I found your tour of the Perm Gulag camp fascinating. I've read a lot of Russian history (I'm English, by the way), including "The Gulag Archipelago" that you mentioned, but I've never seen inside the camp buildings before. The photos in the books I've read don't really show much of the inside of the camps, like the room for meeting visitors, or the punishment block, for instance. Thanks for making the film.

[@llllll8144]

The GULAG Archipelago was written by a traitor to the Motherland on the order of Western special services

[@dorhtag]

@@llllll8144 If one say something like this they have to come with som hard evidences. You see I know it was not them, it was Navalnys grand, grand fathers mothers sudotern. Shim mailed and asked for this book so Putin cold be blamed.

[@davidborland2617]

Excellent wee vid.. well done you and thank you for your effort.. 👍🏻

[@jasonjasniewski5925]

What a great video! Simple, interesting, educational. I worked with a girl from St Petersburg who told me the stories her Mother and Grandmother used to tell her. She never met her Grandfather as he was in one of these camps and died but they didn’t find out until years later.

[@cesandlin]

Excellent short video. I had some relatives who spent some years in one of the Gulags (in the 1950s). It has hundreds of sad and hearth-breaking stories and should never be forgotten. Thanks you for sharing this!

[@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558]

I hear stories all the time about people whose relatives survived or died in the German Holocaust. Other than Solzhenitsyn, it seems like I've never heard any stories about the gulags. I realize Jews have played a much larger role in the US than Soviet emigrants, but it still seems odd how I never hear any other family stories about the gulags.

[@marijamazule9188]

@@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 there's a book of Ruta Sepetys 'Between Shades of Gray' about Soviet genocide of Baltic people. It's fiction based on historical facts. This is the only book I can reccomend in English on this topic, sadly. There could be more translations of a autobiografical books we have in Lithuania. Many of my relatives where deported to Siberia, sent to gulag. Two sisters of my grandpa even sent to prison because they where teachers of Lithuanian language. Ahh, you can also read graphic novel Siberian Haiku by Jurga Vile, it's a great book. For kids also. Sadly we all have to know the history an not let it be repeated.

[@djharto4917]

Your on the right trail. Keep digging

[@douglas5097]

Back in my country, Brazil, many people who claim to be communists, either say that these camps didn’t exist or that they were simply normal prisons where people had to work in it to pay for its costs. Thanks for this video.

[@pavel5939]

Not only in Brazil. Most of leftists, even when they don’t want to call themselves “communists”, they hardly recognize these atrocities or try to dismiss them. Many say it’s all about propaganda. Communism isn’t dead, at all. They named it “woke” and it’s even more dangerous and evil if possible

[@sovietheart3883]

Only criminals were sentenced to gulag and gulags were labour camps, not prison.

[@emtione]

@@sovietheart3883 Criminals like political prisoners? Everybody who were against the tyrant in Kremlin could end in gulag. And also innocent people were abductuted to gulag.

[@elloco888]

@@sovietheart3883 Being an ethnic minority is not a crime.

[@caiolima5016]

​@@emtioneno

[@r93364]

very interesting content ..... thank you for your hard work... just subscribed and looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

[@AmericanskyEnglish]

Obviously well researched, informative commentary. Not just a simple walk through video. Horrific history but it is to Russia's credit that it doesn't attempt to ignore or deny it.

[@sergeytishkin9415]

lol really? 22 seconds of video and so much lie. it is very easy to find the necessary data, but she didn't even try, just voiced liberal nonsense. the data of gulag was declassified in "perestroyka" (1980s), while in USSR was fashionable to self-reproach all things of our life, so no sense to dont trust this data. im about first 22 seconds: the whole gulag could contain from 0.5 to 2.5 mln prisoners. their mortality was from 0.4% to 25% (1942-1943, in whole country was hunger, as in 46-47 for example), usually did not exceed 5%. Total 1.6 mln people died for over 20 years of gulag existence. Its not so much for 20 years in that conditions of time. Stalin had no task just to kill everyone - if he had, they immediately could be killed, no reason to hold them on that gulags lol. Its strange but gulag had system of motivation, every 2 days of work, the prisoner was counted for 3 days of prison time. so by work, a person could have been released instead of 3 years after 2. and people were released, this is obvious cuz we know, for example, about Solzhenitsyn and MANY others who was released lol. and yes, i dont justify Stalin, but u need to be objective to history. otherwise, everything goes in a circle and then descendants also can lie a little and say, - here was a redhead girl and she wanted the death of the gulags prisoners and for the sake of PR she lied they all died.

[@diegoserna5481]

@@sergeytishkin9415 you are trolling if you think stalin didn't kill al those people, stalin was pure evil!!!

[@MacakPodSIjemom]

@@diegoserna5481 Tell us more about Stalin, please, you clearly sound as a very informed and learned person.

[@diegoserna5481]

@@MacakPodSIjemom whats your point dude are you saying stalin didn't kill millions of his own people?

[@diegoserna5481]

@@MacakPodSIjemom stop defending stalin just to prove a point be thankful you were not born in his era!!!

[@seedsinsixtyseconds]

Thank you for posting this. America needs to see this now more than ever. That is an excelent book you recomended. Hope many more Americans read it.

[@suehaws6185]

You are a very wise young woman. Love your videos. Am learning so much. Sue from America ❤️

[@alexishoyaux6158]

excellent to keep us posted on such a professional way :)

[@susana3716]

Beautiful work! I really enjoy how you present the information. Such a sad part of history, but important to remember.

[@tituspullo9210]

This is a perfect example of why authoritarian regimes should be stopped at all costs. Good video 👍

[@dallasgraf6442]

Wouldn't that make whoever is stopping them the authoritarian?

[@tituspullo9210]

@@dallasgraf6442 Do you really believe that?

[@thgeremilrivera-thorsen9556]

Exactly how do you define "authoritarian"? Because the USA has a similar proportion of its population locked up, in equally horrendous conditions.

[@bryanx5829]

Looks like it's making a comeback, and technology is extremely effective at making that happen now. Prepare for war or get ready to work to death.

[@aeganratheesh]

"We must stop making and using knives at all costs" Looool

[@nilodagum1319]

nice eli for sharing this lesson. following & learning your class about RUSSIA. that i love to know.

[@shodopoet]

Hi Eli my first introduction into the gulags was reading “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” in HS thanks for sharing your visit

[@RayAlstrom]

This is such a good video. Thank you for making it and sharing it with us.

[@avnerrotem9027]

Thank you so much: I am just reading a book of Bulgakov right now, and read many of Solzhenitsyn's books. I think a lot about this part of your history.

[@davidwatkins1734]

Me too brother. Which is why I am sad to see the rise of socialism in the world.

[@mycull]

Your videos are fascinating! Excellent work.

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

14:18 - "If everyone speaks up and supports what he stands for, then probably, our country won't see any more times when people's lives didn't mean anything. Peace, everyone!" This video was posted in Aug 2021. What a difference a few short months can make!

[@hershellacey9405]

Today right back to that horrible past.

[@stephenwright5494]

Eli, thank you for a heart felt and sincere look at your county's past. It says a lot about modern Russia that it can look at its past, both the good and the bad, and grow into the future. Russia has been though a great deal of pain but with people such as you I see a great future.

[@thelagirl777]

Great deal of pain indeed.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

There is an interesting balance between acknowledging and rejecting background. I assume that many Russian's recognize that many people that were compelled to the labour camps were not criminals but at the same time, they feel that a Stalin kind personality was needed throughout this time in the Soviet Union. We can not alter the past however we can embrace it. Great or poor. Can I ask, what was it that initially made you watch the first video on this channel? I have actually been making video clips concerning life in Russia for 4 years and I'm looking into for my own channel.

[@robbrown4621]

Russia is about to go through a whole lot more pain if they don't get rid of their dictator, Putin, who has Russia young men and women marching with communist China today. I feel so sad for innocent young people who don't even know what they are doing...

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

@@robbrown4621 I don't think it makes a difference who the president is. Russia could change the President and then only at that point may we realise that Putin was actually a great president. It seems to be much more of a worry for the people outside Russia than those inside Russia.

[@robbrown4621]

@@SamsRussianAdventures You don't understand the point I am trying to make. Perhaps, I was not clear. There is going to be a war between the West and communist China within the next ten years. It will be huge and it will be over Taiwan, initially, but like all world wars, it will soon spread out of control and engulf most of the world. If Russia does not side with the West, Russia will be reduced to a very, very poor country. And, I am not talking about nuclear weapons. I am talking about the economic power of America crushing China. When America wakes up to the communist threat in communist China, it will be a giant waking from slumber. And it will be a very, very powerful enemy and Russia should not be on the wrong side of America. I write this because I think Russian people really do not understand just what an economic power America truly is and how much of that power we have been giving away to communist China over the last 25 years. When that process stops, the world will shake... And I truly want the Russian people to prosper and live in a liberal democracy.

[@Redplanetlover]

Excellent video. You mentioned the 'Gulag Archipelago' but another one by the same author was 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' which is also in the camps but much more readable and a lot shorter. I read it in high school and it has stayed with me for the last 50 years.

[@benangel3268]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's wife Natalya Reshetovskaya described him as a despot and a liar in her book Sanya: My life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was also accused of being a CIA agent.

[@1980zander]

And both of those novels are complete bullsheet, full of lies and can't stand a thorough historical documentary check.

[@SepticFuddy]

@@1980zander The sad part is you'll continue to believe that while you're sitting in one yourself.

[@1980zander]

@@SepticFuddy what's the "one" am I sitting in?

[@stevecook2275]

Years ago I had some time and I read cover to cover Solzenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. It truly is a most unforgettable read, I have never for got it. It is interesting, Mao is first in millions he killed, Stalin is next, then Hitler, then Pol Pot of Cambodia. This is the carnage in a short 75 years or less ago.

[@cijesusmanguiat6743]

Nice presentation, very informative, thank you gorgeous lady.

[@franciscoespiritu9020]

Another stunning video Eli, showing hardship in a labor camp....