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

[@fredgarzajr2941]

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

[@jotork3774]

We are making the same mistakes...wake up

[@Ariannaishun]

Maybe because the upper echelons of the bolshevik government was majority made up of an ethnicity that was not ethnically Russian.. ie not Rus nor Slavic? One that considers all outsiders to be worth no more than cattle? Much like the wheels of government of the USA are now made up of this same ethnicity that only constitutes roughly %2 of the US population. This same ethnicity conducts and projects their world view in the firm direction of the other institutions they own/dominate -- media, publishing, entertainment, education, judiciary, bureaucracy. One that practices strict ingroup preferential selection while vilifying those same natural inclinations in the founding stock members of the country they are parasitizing in and waging war against others from.

[@louiekiwi]

@@Ariannaishun Well said and correct.

[@marshamarshamarsha4567]

@@Ariannaishun Yup.

[@eriklucasmusic]

You don’t understand? We stopped believing in God. That’s why.

[@Harriet1822]

Well done. Thank you for the interviews with Solzhenitsyn's invisible allies. Thank you for this deep dive deep into the production of _The Gulag Archipelago_. I have read and recommend: Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Archipelago Invisible Allies The Oak and the Calf One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich August, 1914 The Cancer Ward The First Circle Solzhenitsyn, ed. From Under The Rubble

[@annechildress2721]

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

[@farmalmta]

My father was a WWII vet who read it when it first came out, then he made sure I read it. He commented on how WWII vanquished some of the political evil in the world, but left too much in place and enabled to expand. I was 12 and 13 as I worked my way through TGA.

[@karenbrock2379]

My dad encouraged me to read this as a teenager, to watch out for freedom theft. 40 years later it is happening again

[@brianrajala7671]

Read his book. It is a small summary of an inhumane and all powerful government. A very important reason to appreciate all of our Freedoms as granted by our US Constitution and Bill of Rights

[@danarzechula3769]

We must defend them for sure.

[@stanleybroniszewsky8538]

My late aunt's parents fled Soviet Russia. The stories she'd tell me were beyond belief.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

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

[@JasmineDaisy111]

This wasn’t taught at my high-school. It should have been.

[@CaesarRenasci]

Why would you be taught anything negative about socialism by the people that embraced it? Don't investigate what I just wrote If you do , you would be amazed how leftist put country was for the last century. Your idols will fall. Roosevelt, who "saved the nation," will turn to have implemented all the fascist policies of Mussolini, whom he admired. Roosevelt singlehandedly turned a recession, which past 18 months on average, into decades-old Great Depresssuon. ("FDR's Folly" is a book to read). Socialist policies, be they conmunist or fascist, don't work for long. You will learn that the last professor of Harvard Law School that taught about the original intent of our Cobstituitutuon - a stable of our beliefs since the founding of our republic --- has retired in 1999. You cannot graduate from that prestigious school without hearing once about the proper interpretation of the Constitution. You will also discover that that school textbooks are published be a handful of publishers, which illegally gathered together (in 1998, I think) and agreed never to publish a picture of a woman with a baby or a Black person doing manual labor, etc. The problem is not even that that they dis all that but there was no opposition, not even a dusussuon. Don't investigate what I wrote: you will be depressed for a while, as was I.

[@scoon2117]

The gulag archipelago is mandatory in Russian schools

[@DaveLife1]

Reading the Gulag Archipelago as a young man was what made me an anti-communist.

[@tepesvoda464]

I was born and lived my first 22 years in Romania under Nicolae Ceaușescu. By the time I was 10, I became a fervent anticommunist. (that is not a joke btw).

[@ronalddunne3413]

Likewise- altho there were some other factors as well.

[@BartBart22]

Now look at the ethno/religious background of the vast majority of bolsheviks and see where they fled after Putin kicked them out.

[@jerryadamek3153]

I hate communism !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@laurasalo6160]

​@@BartBart22the beacon on the hill?

[@wolfg6136]

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

[@christadauria4362]

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

[@mistersquare7327]

Are you aware of the fact that everything in that book is actually fiction? The "letters" he quotes in "The Gulag Archipelago" cannot be evidence in any trial. And do you know that the Soviets were so inhuman that Solzhenitsyn was even cured from cancer? :)

[@DaniEles-rc7ij]

now do American prisons for profit.

[@ronalddunne3413]

@@DaniEles-rc7ij American prisons are a far cry from the Gulag. Only a purblind individual would think otherwise. I suggest that you actually read about the Gulag system and the "courts" that supplied it with endless cheap labor. Try reading Solzhenitzen's epic work "The Gulag Archipelago"- all three volumes- and then get back with us.

[@DaniEles-rc7ij]

@@ronalddunne3413 Please... in America you go to jail even before you are convicted... read about Riker Island NY ... TODAY not in 1950.... TODAY Americans rot in prisons for minimal "crimes". -- sorry your propaganda is bullshit.

[@DaniEles-rc7ij]

@@ronalddunne3413 Prison in America are FOR PROFIT --- nothing else matters. PEOPLE MAKE MONEY FROM DETAINING HUMANS. -- but hey.. Russia bad.

[@Davidf8L]

Thanks for your work and time making this ❤

[@chopperwitz]

Extremely relevant work in our current times.

[@bro5800]

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

[@francismuiruri9064]

Majority of people in Conservative islamic countries like it that way.

[@bro5800]

@@francismuiruri9064 Iran is not conservative! Not it's people anyway. Far from that. The only secular people in the middle east are the Iranians.

[@_Meng_Lan]

​@@francismuiruri9064absolutely rubbish. Iranians are a dear people. People in the capital and the regime not so. Read a book and please grow up

[@danarzechula3769]

It is heartbreaking😢

[@retiredcolonel6492]

The “Gulag Archipelago” and the “Day in the Life of Ivan Denishovich” are must reads for students of the Soviet Union and communism. The first time I read Solzhenitsyn’s books I had already spent a semester on the USSR and knew the history of the Stalin purges but I had no idea just how broad the purges went. No one was exempt. You never knew if you were next. There was no set of rules one could follow to guarantee your safety. It didn’t matter if you were a Politburo member or just a housewife who was religious. All were suspect to Stalin and all were purged. The irony is that Stalin trusted no one-not life long comrades in the Bolshevik movement, not ardent admirers, not even his own family. The only person Stalin trusted…was Adolph Hitler! At least until June 1941.Stalin is truly a hard man to understand.

[@BartBart22]

You should add 200 Years Together to your list if you want to understand the root cause of all that suffering.

[@stanleybroniszewsky8538]

Just more proof we don't learn history by the education system but rather by those that experienced it.

[@maryearll3359]

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

[@JeffMTX]

It devastated me too.

[@willambonney]

Same especially after learning of nazino island aka cannibal island....that was beyond horrific....

[@BartBart22]

Because their god tells them that they are human and all gentiles are merely beasts in human form.

[@danarzechula3769]

It is a beautiful testament to the strength of life and the human spirit that anyone survived

[@HealthyThinkingsubstack]

Very excellent and very concise documentary

[@wallysmith9261]

I read all three books. Fantastic!

[@danarzechula3769]

Kolyma Stories Varlam Shalamov

[@richardkirk5098]

So much courage getting this book out to the world.

[@Flibbeterjibbet]

How has no one made a movie about this?

[@KMN-bg3yu]

This story itself is worthy of a book

[@zunezvenzon1748]

There is a book about it written by Valerij Jesipov. Don´t know the english title though.

[@KMN-bg3yu]

@@zunezvenzon1748 I'll have to look that up. Hopefully there's an english printing of it

[@31052100]

Having read all the books mentioned I felt I knew Solzhenitsyn. His heart and soul full of compassion for his fellow beloved Russians who suffered along with him. He did what he said he’d do and immortalized them. But I never knew the history or effort or sacrifice of those who helped present the Gulag to the world. Thank you.

[@azineox9633]

so much admiration for the author and the people involved!

[@werneroschwald1965]

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

[@tutsecret499]

Exactly.

[@louiekiwi]

Ive been to Russia about a dozen times. People there are very happy with the government and their standard of living. I don't see the scum on the streets like in Europe and US.

[@joanhuffman2166]

Check out Letters From Russia by Astolphe de Custine. He traveled through Russia post French Revolution.

[@AlexKarasev]

Russia is no Scandinavia freedoms wise but people in the West probably self-edit what they say at work & outside immediate family & the very closest of friends, probably more now than the average Soviets did. It's true that writers etc in the West get to say more vs the USSR - but that's b/c they're independent whereas the Soviet writers dealt with the State as employer (see prev paragraph). In fact we've the reversal in music where in the USSR the musicians broadly were against the Afghanistan intervention whereas none of the Western pop or rock bands or singers woukd take that risk speaking up against the Iraq & Afghanistan invasions. B/c money & risk. Fundamentally, people are similar - whenever there's a steep gradient of money or power, some will abuse it, others will bow to it, and very few will speak truth to power against it (not afterwards but when it matters).

[@SK-oh9ui]

Russia loves the whip...

[@3Kiwiana]

Wef is the new starlin forcing this on the world with them at the helm.

[@danarzechula3769]

😮

[@rowansaker5369]

Excellent. Just read Anne Applebaum's book and this is a very good complememt to it.

[@okolona1]

We read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", in high school a classic

[@paulinecoleman2607]

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

[@HDPersonal777]

Stolen magnificent healing Tartarian castles made into torture and death chambers too.

[@JeffMTX]

Communism is envy and hate.

[@Thanasis_Koligliatis]

45:15 10 years in prison camps for translating a book. 35 years in gulags, in total. How can you give any meaning to such a world?

[@sweetcaroline2060]

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

[@JeffMTX]

You were a smart high school girl. Today’s high school girls should be so informed. But they’re not.

[@sweetcaroline2060]

@@JeffMTX Thank you. 💕

[@JeffMTX]

@@sweetcaroline2060 Have you read The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment? I'm not a big novel reader, but was moved by both.

[@sweetcaroline2060]

@@JeffMTX I can't remember. But I love Russian history and literature.

[@samking4179]

thank you!

[@elsotto3314]

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

[@louiekiwi]

Rubbish talk.

[@AlexKarasev]

Your claims re Stalin and Putin's intentions are based on what sources of information? To what extent can those sources be trusted to stay objective to a fault even if detrimental to their $ or host country? If to a very limited extent, then you *know* they'll have many must-lie situations & subjects. I mean that's just en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda

[@_Meng_Lan]

​@@louiekiwinot rubbish

[@jfb3567]

Putin said in 2017: “Millions of people were branded as enemies of the people, were executed or crippled, underwent torture in prisons and forced deportations“ “This terrible past cannot be erased from the national memory. And certainly cannot be justified by whatever imaginary greater good of the people.” Putin was clear that unlike some other episodes in Russia’s past, which are subject to controversy and heated public discourse, Stalin’s terror is not something that’s up for debate. “The persecution campaign was a tragedy for our people, our society, a ruthless blow to our culture, roots and identity. We can feel the consequences now and our duty is not to allow it to be forgotten.”

[@sakkra93]

On the contrary, more and more Russians are returning to Russian Orthodoxy, Russian monarchism and Russian ultranationalism these days.

[@Johnconno]

Everyone talks, Elisabeth certainly didn't hang herself.

[@sergekudrynskyj6662]

I have not seen this video. Apparently the Russians suffered in the gulags due to various purges. However, I have come across info which writes that 60 to 80% of people in the gulags were Ukrainians. Other minorities mainly made up the rest. This makes sense since, for 350 years, Russia has been denationalising minorities, in particular the Ukrainians. People watching these videos might think that the gulags were full of Russians, but probably the minorities were in those places, developing Siberia in bad living and working conditions and poor nourishment, if one digs up and reads up on accounts by survivors. Those accounts do exist if one digs enough. Whilst digging up the histories, one comes up with mass graves of prematurely expired people. In other words, digging up histories and digging up corpses!! Lots of them!! Spring thaws in Kolyma and other places revealed uncovered hillsides of corpses. Russians might go on how they suffered, but the story that non-Russian minorities were the main victims may be not too well known.

[@BartBart22]

You know nothing.

[@george1la]

Fantastic. What a story on how this all happened. What if he was them?

[@barbarasage]

Another great book- Journey to the Land of the Zelis and back by Julius Margolin!

[@michaelabbott8248]

Should be required listening for all Democrat Party politicians and voters in America, because every policy they believe in inevitably will lead to this scenario domestically, even more reason to be thankful for the Second Amendment.🇺🇸

[@lynnkayee1015]

This should be seen by ALL voters. Both sides have far leaning authoritarian potential. While ideals differIt's terrifying. And sadly, those voices are always the loudest. They create both more division and apathy.

[@richardkirk5098]

Amen

[@lawerencestimpson2280]

Read all of Aleksandr I.Solzhenitsyn's work.

[@willigee7885]

USSR, Lenin.. Stalin... Thank god thats over.. apart from Putin

[@NoToobForYou]

Nowadays, we have indefinite incarceration until one submits to demands to unlock phones, PCs, etc.

[@louiekiwi]

It turns out that Putin is a Saint.

[@edwardspence-fo8vt]

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

[@danarzechula3769]

Why do people all over the world worship these false idols of mere men?😢

[@brindacockburn4033]

THe woke lefties need to see this.

[@santhoshlkumar6743]

your images are not maching the commendary

[@guylamaupassant]

🫥The cold war suspense and fear was much different than today's millennium culture.👶🙋

[@alexandrufasoleac627]

Ohhhh, the russians... xD

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

During the Cold War, Americans and Europeans also had their own Gulags in which those who fought against economic exclusion and disagreed with capitalist authoritarianism were interned, mistreated and eventually killed. Ianis Varoufakis' father was interned in one of these camps in Greece. My father was politically persecuted for similar reasons by the military dictatorship that the Americans created in Brazil in 1964. There were no good guys governing either Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Russia or the USA, France or Brazil where his book was applauded.

[@timothy2935]

Lmao

[@sebastiaosalgado1979]

😂

[@zhartheProprietor]

Those commercials sucked

[@ДмитрийДепутатов]

Robinson Barbara Hernandez Patricia Taylor Jennifer

[@asdasx392]

I read the full book about 20 years ago and also Cancer Ward.

[@joshualifetree5398]

What's this hate against dogs???

[@Amy-m9s]

How did I become enslaved I this day and age, neuroscience

[@margaretpocock2249]

❤❤

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Like #999

[@Veedon7]

Most of what Solzhenitsyn's said was made up according to his wife .Its well known he was a CIA asset .Yes people did go to the Gulags during the time of the Soviet Union but compared to the numbers that went there during the reign of the Tsars it was insignificant. Here is a book that you should read if you want to know the truth , " The house of the dead ' Siberian exile under the Tsars " by Daniel Beer

[@ronalddunne3413]

LIAR. X 10!

[@Veedon7]

@@ronalddunne3413 Read the book and then call me a liar

[@sebastiaosalgado1979]

His wife never said this

[@KingPhilipF]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is Americas prophet

[@CountSadistOIII]

I wonder how ussr were ,if stalin didnt had the chance to eliminate him .put trotsky in stalins place.

[@BartBart22]

Trotsky was also a bolshevik so it would have been virtually the same.

[@LittleIggy2010]

One word: JEWS

[@stephenmarcus9601]

Fake propaganda like Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Sometimes I wonder what is true

[@sakkra93]

The same Protocols which a 1919 investigation by the U. S. War Department found out to be true, as recently proven by the website "Christians For Truth"!

[@hakangustavsson3538]

If, at this juncture, you are unable to sort out what is true, I suggest you stop trying. You simply don't have the necessary intellect because the overwhelming truth is everywhere for anybody to see.

[@jotork3774]

You are too dumb, sorry

[@jkdbuck7670]

3:52 like the USA now

[@pavelchekunov4104]

Fortunately more and more people in Russia discover the scale of Solzhenitsyn's lies. Just a few facts about him: He was a camp snitch and and instigator. He was an ardent supporter of the Vietnam War. He is favorite Putin's writers. At least the most quoted by the President. He admired Ukrainians from Division SS. If you're a native Russian speaker, you would hardly enjoy his style. He tried to reinvent Russian language by making up new words and phrases. But he failed. Nobody speaks and will never speak the way he wrote. Reading his scribble is an unbearable torture. And pathological lies. That sort of small lies when it's pretty unnecessary but you cannot control yourself. There is a monumental research which reveals the nature of his lies.

[@danarzechula3769]

Go home Russian bot

[@danarzechula3769]

Try Kolyma Stories Varlam Shalamov

[@danarzechula3769]

Putin's research?

[@danarzechula3769]

Sure😂 all the people who helped him got together and just made it all up Do you have zero logic circuits😢

[@pavelchekunov4104]

So what? Shalamov was a decent person and an honest writer. Quite the opposite to Solzhenitsyn.

[@blackeyes3313]

What about Guantanamo 🙄

[@sebastiaosalgado1979]

Very different cases

[@johnsnowkumar359]

/ Here the propaganda purpose of the youtube video maker is wrong. 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. 10 years of hard labor. Many who committed extensive atrocities were sent to a gulag or two. 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. Nothing wrong in that. Soviet guard says to a Nazi prisoner: "Mr. OsterMann, your papers say you killed 250 Soviet prisoners of war. You confessed to a fellow prisoner of killing 100 additional villagers near Brest, Belarus. Today onwards you will begiven even more work to do daily. You will still be released in 1954." Nothing wrong with that. A few Mr. Jones or average Mrs. Jones in the year 1950 living in the western hemisphere if asked may say "All Nazi soldiers who committed excessive atrocities in wars should be released from had labor gulags immediately or be given American citizenship."

[@katylake212]

@johnsnowkumar359 Honestly, I think the stupidest people on the internet wind up in the youtube comments. So how did Stalin know how many civilians a Nazi had killed? Did he learn it in a two-minute fake show trial? Anyone who was German went to the gulag. Anyone Russian who was in a German POW camp went to the gulag when they were repatriated. Anyone Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, etc., etc., who was in contact with the West wound up in a gulag. Gulags weren't just punishment. They were a primary economic engine of the Soviet Union. Slave labor kept the wheels spinning. Stalin was still throwing people into the gulags during the darkest days of the Nazi invasion. Stalin loved torturing pepole, but this was just Germany making up for invading the USSR.

[@TheTwainShallMeet]

I fear it is you that/who is the purveyor of wrong headed propaganda, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer not a Nazi. Putin is doing to Ukraine what Stalin unjustly wanted to do, but failed. #Hi Vlad! Bah.... humbug!

[@SK-oh9ui]

Soooo... how many years of hard labor did they get?

[@BartBart22]

Did you read that in the talmud?

[@kr4ftfake]

Cmon guys how can you take this seriously? This is just horror fantasy stories.

[@danarzechula3769]

Nope Go home Russian Bot

[@danarzechula3769]

Very serious indeed

[@rodrigofonseca6241]

The author of this mediocre novel, based on fiction, was a great admirer of Franco and fascism. His literature nobel prize has the same moral value of Henry Kissinger's peace nobel...

[@stevec7770]

Wait until you arrive on the shores of the archipelago

[@michaellovullo7363]

The book is more about human psychology and the human condition, than it is about a refutation of communism or the prison.

[@stevec7770]

@@michaellovullo7363 it’s all of that, hence the “experiment in literary investigation”

[@ronalddunne3413]

LIAR

[@BartBart22]

Did you learn that in the talmud?

[@nonameslb]

52 minutes of western propaganda.