_"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart"_ -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Those who dispute, lessons evidences verses and signs, of God without any authority that has come to them it is greatly hateful and disgusting to God. Thus God seals up the heart of every arrogant tryant. (So they cannot guide themselves to the right path)"
My local library doesn't even carry it. They do however carry all of the Marvel movies on DVD and Blue ray. What is the point of even having a library if they dont carry The Gulag Archipelago?
The fact that brother turned on brother and daughter turned on mother is truly heartbreaking. Everyone was an informant for the regime to get the heat off of their own tail.
I picked up volume one at a garage sale in the late 90's. I had no idea what I was in for. I had read Ivan Denisovich a few years earlier but there really isn't anything that can prepare you this book.
@@wadestanton Didn't know what to expect and it is tough going. What is done in the name of ideology is shocking. I know some people see it as an critique of Communism but I feel it is more about the human condition.
0:49 same here. I went to highschool in the 90's and not ONE darned thing about the Gulags and how they got to that point. If this was taught in schools, maybe our world would be a bit wiser.
"Modern people do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” - G.K. Chesterton. This relativism is the poison that's killed us.
Just found this book in the “free bin” at my dump. Was about to order it and Ordinary Men, online. Time to look into history. For it might foretell the future, if we aren’t very careful.
Because after the war there were very influential people in the west who wanted to cultivate inflated ideas about the plight of the Jews and deflate or simply ignore other bigger aspects of the war, they were Marxist idealists and sympathisers. They in fact still exist today, even amongst the younger generations, scary stuff.
@@Azeminad We don't know who, but we now know they are inclined to show when the right goes too far, but not when the left does. Interesting huh? Even more interesting considering the political climate of late.
Because those who were in power in these countries including national. Socialist Germany were put in to the echelons of the UN and America by their sympathisers and fellow communists.
All 3 volumes of The Gulag Archipelago are recorded on audiobook and available here on RUclips for free in one playlist. Just search The Gulag Archipelago audiobook and it will come up
The book is jaw dropping from beginning to end, the crimes are beyond comprehension . . . right up there with the silence of American Academia. At one time, perhaps still, this was required reading in Russian schools.
Do you know the opinion of the author on jews and nazism? Who gains from the anti comunist propaganda that we feed to the kids. Why are we allways talking about the communists crimes when we lie to our citizens and send them to war?
I ordered the newest, 3 volume edition today. At first the price (480 Croatian kunas, around 80 dollars) seemed steep. But after months of deliberation, I finally decided to go for it. I read a saying somewhere which goes: "It's not how much the book costs you to buy it, but how much it costs you not to read it." Also, I'm a history teacher, so that part also kind of helped. It's the kind of literature that one should proudly display on one's shelf. As an avid reader, I'd feel there was something missing if I didn't have it.
I finally ordered the first volume, already making my eyes open more to the lack of information passed around in the USA. School really teaches you how to work and do nothing.
I believe there are 2 things each student must complete before admission into University. I. Being able to swim 50m Freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke. And 2. Having read and completed a satisfactory knownedge of The Gulag Archipeligo.
66M what? Deaths? Why can’t I find any information on this? I’m reading just over 1m but nothing about 66m. If that is the case then, truly why do we not hear of this?
@@steven_king Because the communist government released their own numbers and tried to cover up what they had done. They were pretty successful in doing so. Of course they wouldn't want people knowing they did it so they wrote history how they want it portrayed and not how it actually was. I'm sure all countries lie about history to an extent but this is the most notable and egregious.
I have researched the death toll estimates for some time now and the short story is, we don't know how many. The longer story: Solzhenitsyn's cites a professor who gives the figure of 66M but there seems to be little credibility with this figure. Solzhenitsyn himself says that "it is the only figure we have at the moment" and basically that future scholars have to find the real figure. Today the most commonly cited figure is about 1.6-2 million dead in the Gulag and about 18-28 million people passed through the Gulag system in total. I'm highly critical of it for several reasons which I won't go into here because it would take too long to explain. Other figures like 5M, 7M, and 10M dead have been put forward based on various methods and evidence. One paper I read a few months ago discusses a fairly comprehensive batch of sources (including claims by the prosecutor general of the USSR himself, Andrey Vishinsky) where estimates reach into 10-15M prisoners in the Gulag at any given time between 1937-1953. However I do not recall if death estimates were discussed. One very recent paper I read shows how the Gulag authorities faked, fixed, and otherwise mixed with the mortality statistics. Basically, it seems like we are not even close to knowing how many died and we probably won't until we can have 100% unlimited access to ALL the archives and documents in Russia and former Soviet republics.
We all march blindly to the tune of the drum beating of the degenerates that wish to waste the societal time we all care to regard sacred for the vanguard of morality to continue this cog wheel mess of insubordination.
Solshenitzyn most ‘accurate’ book is ‘Ivan Denisovich’, I think. It’s pure fiction, but describes life in a labor camp. The rest of his stuff, especially the Gulag Archipelago, are rumors, especially old rumors. There are little hints and tidbits throughout that one or two Sovietologist acquaintances thought were suggestive. Basically, all the Sovietologists I have ever spoken to think the stuff is worthless. And that’s my view as well. ANY literate reader who can tell what is good evidence from what is not will recognize that there is no evidence here. S. was lionized in the West and especially in the US. I remember that the AFL-CIO gave him a prize in the early ’70s - this guy who is a great racist (anti-semite, see below) and elitist, lover of the Tsar and of Russian imperialism! It said volumes about the AFL-CIO. S’s ex-wife (Soviet) wrote a book, available in English, in which she pointed out what a first-class schmuck the guy is personally. This has no bearing on the validity of his writings (see above), but is interesting for those who admire his «principles.» There was a long-time debate among anti-communist Jewish Soviet emigres about S’s anti-semitism. Much of this was published in Russian-language journals published in Israel; I have some of it. It was summarized in some articles in _Slavic Review_ by American anti-communist «champions» of Solzhenitsyn, who thought that tarring S. with the brush of anti-semitism would ruin his usefulness as a stick to beat the Soviets with. Very revealing about the uses of history in the Cold War.
_"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart"_ -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All time favorite
"Those who dispute, lessons evidences verses and signs, of God without any authority that has come to them it is greatly hateful and disgusting to God. Thus God seals up the heart of every arrogant tryant. (So they cannot guide themselves to the right path)"
Lol, ask yourself who s gaining from talking about gulags when the west is commiting a genocide right now in Palestine
@@realsoldierofallahthose who don t know which class they belong to act against themselves
Nice to know people are still seeking this book on their own.
My local library doesn't even carry it. They do however carry all of the Marvel movies on DVD and Blue ray. What is the point of even having a library if they dont carry The Gulag Archipelago?
Because there are many left leaning professors and administrators in the academia.
@@jorgelopez-pr6dr yes and in today's upside down world, "left leaning" means Stalinist/Maoist and "Capitalist" means Fascist imperialist pig.
Nor have Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg nor The God That Failed.
jorge lopez Those aren’t historical masterpieces.
@@ellegroover Moreover, they are testimonies.
I read it in high school, it still resounds on me. Unlimited power on the hands of limited people always lead to cruelty....
As we witness today with Biden the idiot.
This video has a 1k views and it should have 7,000,000,000.
@Ben Höflinger The took animal farm out of schools and replaced it with a Socialist play.
*66,000,000
The fact that brother turned on brother and daughter turned on mother is truly heartbreaking. Everyone was an informant for the regime to get the heat off of their own tail.
I picked up volume one at a garage sale in the late 90's. I had no idea what I was in for. I had read Ivan Denisovich a few years earlier but there really isn't anything that can prepare you this book.
This in on my reading list for this year.
I suggest the unabridged, same with La Miserables. Strap on a seat belt.
@@wadestanton Didn't know what to expect and it is tough going. What is done in the name of ideology is shocking. I know some people see it as an critique of Communism but I feel it is more about the human condition.
0:49 same here. I went to highschool in the 90's and not ONE darned thing about the Gulags and how they got to that point. If this was taught in schools, maybe our world would be a bit wiser.
Do you remember aminal Farm? They may have removed it late 90s.
"Modern people do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” - G.K. Chesterton. This relativism is the poison that's killed us.
Just found this book in the “free bin” at my dump. Was about to order it and Ordinary Men, online. Time to look into history. For it might foretell the future, if we aren’t very careful.
The global communism is already here. The net is closing.
I am 36 and had the same reaction. Why didn’t they teach us this, and more on Mao? Why indeed.
Because after the war there were very influential people in the west who wanted to cultivate inflated ideas about the plight of the Jews and deflate or simply ignore other bigger aspects of the war, they were Marxist idealists and sympathisers. They in fact still exist today, even amongst the younger generations, scary stuff.
Who decides what is taught?
@@Azeminad We don't know who, but we now know they are inclined to show when the right goes too far, but not when the left does. Interesting huh? Even more interesting considering the political climate of late.
Because those who were in power in these countries including national. Socialist Germany were put in to the echelons of the UN and America by their sympathisers and fellow communists.
@@Azeminad The ones who lost the wars and became our leaders.
All 3 volumes of The Gulag Archipelago are recorded on audiobook and available here on RUclips for free in one playlist. Just search The Gulag Archipelago audiobook and it will come up
The book is jaw dropping from beginning to end, the crimes are beyond comprehension . . . right up there with the silence of American Academia. At one time, perhaps still, this was required reading in Russian schools.
Forced vax ring a bell? Global gov is here.
The book is boring and nonfiction
Do you know the opinion of the author on jews and nazism? Who gains from the anti comunist propaganda that we feed to the kids. Why are we allways talking about the communists crimes when we lie to our citizens and send them to war?
I ordered the newest, 3 volume edition today. At first the price (480 Croatian kunas, around 80 dollars) seemed steep. But after months of deliberation, I finally decided to go for it. I read a saying somewhere which goes: "It's not how much the book costs you to buy it, but how much it costs you not to read it." Also, I'm a history teacher, so that part also kind of helped. It's the kind of literature that one should proudly display on one's shelf. As an avid reader, I'd feel there was something missing if I didn't have it.
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I don't know what's more terrifying, the fact that it happened, or the fact that no one is aware of it
I finally ordered the first volume, already making my eyes open more to the lack of information passed around in the USA. School really teaches you how to work and do nothing.
I believe there are 2 things each student must complete before admission into University. I. Being able to swim 50m Freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke. And 2. Having read and completed a satisfactory knownedge of The Gulag Archipeligo.
“We defeated the wrong enemy.” - George Patton
Which 100 pages do you teach? I would like to include some of it in my teaching.
The 100 pages that he taught are in The Solzhenitsyn Reader.
Teach as much as you can.
Sixty six million.
Where can we find this figure, as I thought is was closer to 100M
@@JoJoKaat that 100m figure includes ww2 casualties
66M what? Deaths? Why can’t I find any information on this? I’m reading just over 1m but nothing about 66m. If that is the case then, truly why do we not hear of this?
@@steven_king Because the communist government released their own numbers and tried to cover up what they had done. They were pretty successful in doing so. Of course they wouldn't want people knowing they did it so they wrote history how they want it portrayed and not how it actually was. I'm sure all countries lie about history to an extent but this is the most notable and egregious.
I have researched the death toll estimates for some time now and the short story is, we don't know how many. The longer story:
Solzhenitsyn's cites a professor who gives the figure of 66M but there seems to be little credibility with this figure. Solzhenitsyn himself says that "it is the only figure we have at the moment" and basically that future scholars have to find the real figure.
Today the most commonly cited figure is about 1.6-2 million dead in the Gulag and about 18-28 million people passed through the Gulag system in total. I'm highly critical of it for several reasons which I won't go into here because it would take too long to explain.
Other figures like 5M, 7M, and 10M dead have been put forward based on various methods and evidence.
One paper I read a few months ago discusses a fairly comprehensive batch of sources (including claims by the prosecutor general of the USSR himself, Andrey Vishinsky) where estimates reach into 10-15M prisoners in the Gulag at any given time between 1937-1953. However I do not recall if death estimates were discussed.
One very recent paper I read shows how the Gulag authorities faked, fixed, and otherwise mixed with the mortality statistics.
Basically, it seems like we are not even close to knowing how many died and we probably won't until we can have 100% unlimited access to ALL the archives and documents in Russia and former Soviet republics.
Wow.
Heartbroken
Also please read
"An Eye for an Eye "
John Sacks
66,000,000
😥
What about WW1?
We all march blindly to the tune of the drum beating of the degenerates that wish to waste the societal time we all care to regard sacred for the vanguard of morality to continue this cog wheel mess of insubordination.
Should be compulsory reading
Solshenitzyn most ‘accurate’ book is ‘Ivan Denisovich’, I think. It’s
pure fiction, but describes life in a labor camp. The rest of his
stuff, especially the Gulag Archipelago, are rumors, especially old
rumors. There are little hints and tidbits throughout that one or two
Sovietologist acquaintances thought were suggestive. Basically, all
the Sovietologists I have ever spoken to think the stuff is worthless.
And that’s my view as well. ANY literate reader who can tell what is
good evidence from what is not will recognize that there is no
evidence here.
S. was lionized in the West and especially in the US. I remember
that the AFL-CIO gave him a prize in the early ’70s - this guy who is
a great racist (anti-semite, see below) and elitist, lover of the Tsar
and of Russian imperialism! It said volumes about the AFL-CIO.
S’s ex-wife (Soviet) wrote a book, available in English, in which
she pointed out what a first-class schmuck the guy is personally. This
has no bearing on the validity of his writings (see above), but is
interesting for those who admire his «principles.»
There was a long-time debate among anti-communist Jewish Soviet
emigres about S’s anti-semitism. Much of this was published in
Russian-language journals published in Israel; I have some of it. It
was summarized in some articles in _Slavic Review_ by American
anti-communist «champions» of Solzhenitsyn, who thought that tarring
S. with the brush of anti-semitism would ruin his usefulness as a
stick to beat the Soviets with. Very revealing about the uses of
history in the Cold War.
Teaching the Gulag Archipelago to American College students!, one may as well be teaching quantum physics to an orangutan