New subscriber! I have been dreaming of going to Paris for years (finally started saving for it...when travel is back to normal) and loved your book choices ;)
I am just finishing Gulag Archipelago. It's not a happy book but i highly recommend it. It's an autobiography of an officer in the red army who writes letters to his friend at home discussing the conditions on the frontline. For writing these letters the author is given 10 year sentence in the gulag. It is crazy how everybody is aware of the tragedies caused by Hitler during these times but nobody is aware what was going on in Russia. The author himself knows this and writes how people outside of Russia only know of Russian propaganda. The government during these times was incredibly oppressive. People would clap for Stalin for extended periods because whoever stopped clapping first would get arrested. Arrests were done based on quotas so many innocent people were taken away at night -- The illusion of the socialist utopia had to be maintained. Special prison camps that were camps of extermination were created where people were sent to starve and be worked to death -- concentration camps were used in Russia on mass scale prior to Hitler exposing the concentration camp horrors to the world. Many of the citizens are completely enamored by the propaganda and help the government, others spy on their neighbors to get ahead. As Stalin grows paranoid no one is safe, even highest officials get transported to the gulag. The book also explains how the oppression started prior to Stalin taking office and continued way after his death. This reminds me of what is going on in China right now. A boy of 20 just got 14 years for helping develop a website simply because the website contained information about the leader of china (no slander just actual information). His mother was interviewed and she talks about how she is a great supporter of the communist party and she can't believe that they would give him such a harsh sentence. In China many are so deprived of information of what is going on that they support the party and don't understand how the party could do something bad to them. They can't even see that they are not alone that the party is not only hurting them. Another example is my home country. Communism was abolished in 1989 which is the year i was born (I still remember the ruins and rubble from buildings in the town square from WWII as communists didn't have resources to clean it up). My parents grew up in an environment with no free speech and extreme oppression where even art and music was banned. Food was extremely limited and only the party members had special stores where they could buy things. These examples really show how difficult it is to do anything once an oppressive situation arises which is the reason to do anything to prevent it in the first place. It's definitely an interesting book in the current climate that free speech is no longer that popular. People in modern times are easier to control because of the ease of spread of information (media and internet) and there is no urge to educate oneself. Most people don't even read books. I find it fascinating so I'd thought I'd share.
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New subscriber! I have been dreaming of going to Paris for years (finally started saving for it...when travel is back to normal) and loved your book choices ;)
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Welcome to Paris in advance
It feels like you really enjoyed these books. Keep up the good work Tylah
Julien Bee i sure did! & thank you! ☺️
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Omg so many good reads! I wanna check out some of the memoirs! Also you are so beautiful like 😍💕
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I should read more
polina Shrayber we all should!!❤️🤸🏽♀️
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A great video, thank you!
Super vidéo ☺️👌🏼
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I love Paris my sweet
I seriously want to eat at all the restaurants she has listed in the book
I loved pancakes in Paris, an expat book of the restaurant owner who opened an American diner in Paris. Also Paris letters was good
omg i’m definitely going to read pancakes in paris next, thank you!
@@TylahAli i highly recommend the audiobook of that.
I am just finishing Gulag Archipelago. It's not a happy book but i highly recommend it. It's an autobiography of an officer in the red army who writes letters to his friend at home discussing the conditions on the frontline. For writing these letters the author is given 10 year sentence in the gulag. It is crazy how everybody is aware of the tragedies caused by Hitler during these times but nobody is aware what was going on in Russia. The author himself knows this and writes how people outside of Russia only know of Russian propaganda. The government during these times was incredibly oppressive. People would clap for Stalin for extended periods because whoever stopped clapping first would get arrested. Arrests were done based on quotas so many innocent people were taken away at night -- The illusion of the socialist utopia had to be maintained. Special prison camps that were camps of extermination were created where people were sent to starve and be worked to death -- concentration camps were used in Russia on mass scale prior to Hitler exposing the concentration camp horrors to the world.
Many of the citizens are completely enamored by the propaganda and help the government, others spy on their neighbors to get ahead. As Stalin grows paranoid no one is safe, even highest officials get transported to the gulag. The book also explains how the oppression started prior to Stalin taking office and continued way after his death.
This reminds me of what is going on in China right now. A boy of 20 just got 14 years for helping develop a website simply because the website contained information about the leader of china (no slander just actual information). His mother was interviewed and she talks about how she is a great supporter of the communist party and she can't believe that they would give him such a harsh sentence. In China many are so deprived of information of what is going on that they support the party and don't understand how the party could do something bad to them. They can't even see that they are not alone that the party is not only hurting them.
Another example is my home country. Communism was abolished in 1989 which is the year i was born (I still remember the ruins and rubble from buildings in the town square from WWII as communists didn't have resources to clean it up). My parents grew up in an environment with no free speech and extreme oppression where even art and music was banned. Food was extremely limited and only the party members had special stores where they could buy things.
These examples really show how difficult it is to do anything once an oppressive situation arises which is the reason to do anything to prevent it in the first place.
It's definitely an interesting book in the current climate that free speech is no longer that popular. People in modern times are easier to control because of the ease of spread of information (media and internet) and there is no urge to educate oneself. Most people don't even read books.
I find it fascinating so I'd thought I'd share.
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Please make a new video soon :)
Going to film next week! Super excited :) and then next month I’ll be more consistent, thanks for sticking around 🕺🏽
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Erica Matich a mission i support!
Too bad you didn’t tell more of the last, what it’s about.
Are these books in English
yes all of these are in english but they may have them in other languages:)
talk about the hijab-ban and how muslims are being opressed in france use your platform for something good
Hey Tylah great show. Check your email