What was it like in the Gulag? Interview with a survivor.

[@patriciastockbridge5345]

Every school and place of learning in the UK should have to watch this video,

[@AB-ComeLordJesus]

USA too!

[@christopherbrown8205]

Norway too. But above all, and especially, Russia.

[@JosephusAurelius]

As a modern westerner that lives a relatively comfortable life, what she and many others went through is an extreme hellscape on an industrial scale. I personally doubt I would have the willpower to continue living after a day of treatment like this... dear god...

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Such a spirit, Ivanna. Thank you for telling your own and others stories, and thank you Museum of Communist Terror for sharing Ivanna's testimony and for the important work you do. God bless!

[@overtimedemo4399]

Everyone in every country should watch this video, thank you so much for listening to people. So many innocents

[@figgis4]

How brilliant is that. How compassionate, how insightful and dignified a presentation. And what a remarkable woman at her age, to be working with you . Bravo all round. Such courage, such moral dignity.

[@museumofcommunistterror]

We are most grateful for your generous remarks.

[@libertylighthouse9813]

Thank you, guys! Your work is amazing!

[@RossEnzo]

Bless her and you all. Incredible work

[@tentimetex]

Amazing talk, she is a hero.

[@Enhancedlies]

this was fantastic, came straight from second viewing of your trigonometry episode...

[@danielpaschjr3547]

It's amazing that there are so many people who still think that Lenin and Stalin were both such great leaders and wonderful humanitarians who for nothing except the bringing about of a peaceful revolution that would bring about world communism. Lenin wanted a total dictatorship from the start. It was to be a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' which meant that a small group of revolutionaries was supposed to rule over the masses and that there would be no democracy. That was written in his own hand in late 1917. Unusually though, in February 1918 he decided to finally call the Constituent Àssembly to happen. They had an election and the Bolsheviks came in a distant forth with slightly less than a quarter of the vote. The other three parties were the Kadet Party, the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and the Left Social Revolutionary Party. Lenin, outraged, closed down the assembly and started to ban the other parties and enacting the first one-party state. I'm sorry I've rambled but everyone has to know this.

[@Alipotamus]

Thank you. Just wish there had been subtitles. I had a very hard time understanding.

[@lindahudspeth8006]

The final question was very poignant. This should be required learning in our increasingly left leaning education system.

[@laurajaneluvsbeauty9596]

It’s very hard to understand what she’s saying, i even have the subtitles on and they are not correct at all. I can’t get any information from what’s she’s saying. This channel really needs to put subtitles on this that are correct this information is important

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

One of the books I've read about the Red Terror, that made a deep impression on me, was written by George Popoff, its title is ''The Tcheka: The Red Inqusition'', I think it came out in 1925. If my memory is correct his twin brother was sent to Solovetsky Islands, he was massacred on the shores of the freezing water with thousands of others, mostly young men. They would also fill up boats with prisoners, force them out on the water while promising they would not sink them, but that's exactly what they did, they sank the boats. Recently I read ''Sofia Petrovna'' for the first time. It was written in secret during Stalin's purges in the 1930's, it describes the share terror that was installed in the Soviet people, as well as the confusion and delirium atomized people felt when the turn to be targeted finally came to one of their loved ones or themselves. As in ''Sofia Petrovna''s case, it would drive many poor souls mad. I highly recommend people to read both of these books. ''Among the Red Autocrats'' by George Solomon'' is also illuminating. ''Tortured for Christ'' by Richard Wumbrandt (there is also a Rumanian film made of his story), Sir John H. Noble's work/story, of course Alexander Solzhenitsyn's. There is also a few movies made, including ''Mr.Jones'' from 20019, about the young journalist that tried to share the story of the Holodomor in Ukraine, ''The Tchekist'', Russian made movie from 1992 and I want to include the German film ''As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me'', 2001.

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

Also learn the story of ''Nazino Island'''.

[@jonahtwhale1779]

Name the perpetrators and the victims. We can all name the perpetrators of the Holocaust - Himmler, Horse, Marchenko, Wirth etc. How many can similar names for the Gulag?

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

Putin was head of the KGB, he's refused to release all the records.

[@jamesmccann355]

We here about the Holocaust. Please let us know more about the holdomor in the Ukraine. And the other lesser known atrocities of communist/socialist regimes....

[@theylive23]

Has any survivor ever received any reparations for their time in the Gulag system?

[@Rafael-nc8rl]

Ask Putin.

[@johnrock241]

i think the only thing some got was "rehabilitated" and that was in some cases 20 to 30 years after their sentence was finished.kolyma=the pole of cold and cruelty.

[@johnrock241]

i forgot to mention i have on my channel 3 videos about kolyma.ultra rare with english voice over.a must see for anyone interested in the kolyma gulags.

[@trineperstuen7011]

Could you please have more old pictures and videos??❤

[@giam1084]

More translation needed!

[@Ahmedpuno]

GULAGS, an introvert’s worst nightmare.

[@daveyvane]

I wouldn’t want to be in a gulag. I don’t like really hard work or noisy sleeping conditions. Especially snoring!

[@Grace.allovertheplace]

1:14:14 She’s Ukrainian 🇺🇦🫡so yes she is strong 💙💛

[@nadezdapatusova8630]

In Russia dont have the Museum of Great Britain historische.Never saw

[@prahamama8915]

I wish. I was. Hoping. My. Kids. Listen. To. Me. ……useless. Me.

[@matchpoint14]

The books he mentioned are fictional but entirely drawn from facts. Then that means they are not fictional, That is the most stupidest classification of books I have ever seen. I would never buy a fictional book. If I would have known Kolyma Tales was fictional i would not have bought it, I thought it was a true account.

[@johnsnowkumar359]

Here the propaganda purpose of the youtube video maker is wrong. 10 years of hard labor and release by 1955. Here the Nazis were wrong and the Soviet decisions were right, for a sentence to Nazi soldiers who took part in extensive atrocities. Sentence by Soviets: 10 years of hard labor. All Nazi prisoners of war given 10 years sentences for atrocities committed were to be released no later than 1955. This decision was right. Anyone from the Nazi military forces who killed more than 500 civilian villagers or 100 Soviet prisoners of war people were not given life term jail terms and not to be hanged. They were to be given a sentence of 10 years of hard labor. To be released in 1954 or 1955. Here, some were happy about it. Others said the Nazis who participated in massacres of civilian villagers in Belarus and Ukraine and Russia would rather die than work as a hard laborer foe 10 years till 1955. : They were give 10 years of hard labor. As per Stalin's orders all Nazi soldiers who had killed more than 100 civilians or massacred more than 100 Soviet poisoners of war will be given 10 years of hard labor sentence. To understand what happened in gulars for some prisoners of war in who committed atrocities during ww2, one has to understand the American prison system of the US. A Nazi after completing one year of hard year may have 9 years to re released. A serial killer in jail in the USA, America will suddenly confess to fellow convicts that he killed seven more men as a serial killer. Similarly, a Nazi has just completed one year of hard labor out of a 10 year sentence. Such a Nazi in a gulag for har labor work who committed atrocities may suddenly say something to the effect that he massacred 100 more villagers in a village 100 miles from Brest, Belarus. Outcome of this confession: The Nazi who committed is given more hard labor tasks as he had confessed to additional atrocities that he had additionally killed 100 villagers in Belarus. Released by 1955. Nothing wrong in that.

[@robinshankland3499]

Garbled gibberish makes no sense at all. Perhaps you should educate yourself about the truth regarding the experiences of the German prisoners of war who were NOT soldiers.

[@henryhoward9454]

Hey, do you happen to know if they received sentences? And if so, for how long they were?