What is Russia ashamed of? | Perm 36 GULAG prison camp
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- 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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Very educational and yes you are right - "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
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.
That's why White Supremacists need to be eradicated from US soil.
@@frankiethebull8269 Turn off the main stream media and open you eyes.
Tell that to the asswipes taking down the statues around the US because their "feelings" are hurt!
@@frankiethebull8269 what does that have to do with communist gulags comrade ?
What an amazing video! Humane, balanced with no emotional or rhetorical hyperboles. Excellent work miss!
Heartfelt and very well constructed video, Eli. You are very brave and we appreciate your amazingly honest videos.
Just so sad that though you visited 'the past' - it is clear this kind of regime is still very much in the present (Siberia) 😢
This is is the most significant channel on youtube for understanding the history and culture of Russia and its peoples (good and bad); Which without both you will not understand either.
Excellent wee vid.. well done you and thank you for your effort.. 👍🏻
We’re curious about things like that here in the US. And despite the tensions between our governments, the citizens of the US feel no animosity towards Russian people. We’re actually a lot alike.
More of you guys should see the atrocities committed in Guantanamo bay and the million dead Iraqis in YOUR lifetime before you get morally outraged over the dude who saved the planet from Nazi takeover 80 years ago.
@@hgewhewhewdhewr3142 Who says they can't be outraged at both? That's what reading about all sides of history is about. It helps one be impartial yet empathetic.
Only, if you knew the truth.
@@chew7656 Because there isnt middle ground. You either believe in the equality of all or the supremacy of some. Socialism or barbarism. If Stalin hadnt had been so tough the Nazis wouldve taken over. The collapse of the soviet union has led to US world domination and the descent into irreversible extinction for all life on earth because they wont stop the capitalist train heading off a cliff.
The only "tensions" that exist between Russia and America is the hate from the American Democrats. True and Great Americans have no tension.
Thank you Eli for sharing:)) that was a terrible time in the early days of Lenin and Stalin … Unfortunately History always repeats itself with Belarus doing the same oppression on its own citizens…. It’s horrible and heartbreaking to witness:((( we are all brothers and sisters regardless of race or country… We need to help each other:))
Keith Shultz Are you sure, the mighty $ from the "American Endowment for Democracy" had no hand in the Demonstrations ?
In my opinion , this way of punishing n correcting criminals is much better than what happened with the prisoners in germany, or in other countries.
What? You missed the point entirely and you seem to have a very limited knowledge on the subject.
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!
Please be safe Eli
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
American drug war is soo much worse
@@fkujakedmyname exactly!!!!
@@fkujakedmyname and hitler was much worse, and Japan with Unit 761 or whatever
"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.
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.
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.
@@kilx81
And British empire invented concentration camps
killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined
we must remember
@@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.
it is being repeated right now
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!
Eli, may peace be on you as well
you build friendships by killing your neighbours?
@@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.
@@sovietheart3883 don't talk nonsense. most of the victims of gulags were russians.
@@nikolatomic5287 Most of the victims were fascists and other criminals
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.
@@ElifromRussia yes this can not be repeated anywhere.
"You can ignore history, but history will not ignore you."
@@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
@@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
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Still happening in China
@@iosis2009 china was black 150 years ago...
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!
@Jebus Hypocristos
Are you serious?
Well.... Tf do schools not teach about their own gulags. Why doesn't media discuss that??
Just hating on Stalin I see👀. Rewriting history....
It is a sin against God and the victims of these crimes !
America doing the same and will learn the hard way unfortunately
I love how all Russian RUclipsrs 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.
Nalvany?
A lot of russians I’ve met say “we don’t know our history”.
@@jimjiminyjaroo300 Lies
@@rd7726 Rightfully deserved a gulag accommodation...
" bird brained or unaware like most youngsters of today" you haven't met " most youngsters" so that's a stupid & ignorant comment.
Great tour, and historical overview- great content
Wow, I see you. lol, have a great day!
What's up CP, I been watching you for years! :)
"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
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.
@@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.
@@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)
@@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.
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
Absolutely heartbreaking. Thank you for making this video, it was beautifully done.
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.
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.
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.
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
*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.*
And many Hungarians as well.
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...
@@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…
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.
We will? This is still happening, now, in many places.
North Korea, China, south Africa all still happening now
@@Ealsante Sorry, I should have specified I mean the Western developed world.
@@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.
yess...came after Bald. But bald seemed to have been shut out. he didn't show much. I am glad I came here
Bald and Bankrupt brought me here
Me too!
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.
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.
@@Automedon2 do you think what you are describing, have any parallels with Covid and vaccine passports? Would appreciate your thoughts
@@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'?
@@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!
@@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.
Putin just gave Navalny extra 19 years of "holidays"...not much changed
This is a perfect example of why authoritarian regimes should be stopped at all costs. Good video 👍
Wouldn't that make whoever is stopping them the authoritarian?
@@dallasgraf6442 Do you really believe that?
Exactly how do you define "authoritarian"? Because the USA has a similar proportion of its population locked up, in equally horrendous conditions.
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.
"We must stop making and using knives at all costs"
Looool
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!
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.
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.
u gay?...eh
@@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.
Good for you Keith.
“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
I can't understand the last sentence of your comment.
@@manfredneilmann4305 He is saying to read Solzhenitsyn's lesser known book called "200 years together"
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Do not read Solzhenitsyn! Very misleading fiction.
@@sebji9581 Oh please. He is Russia's greatest author of the second half of the 20th century...
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.
В Советском Союзе был не только гулаг.
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!
And being a “hot redhead”. Helps...
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.
@@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.
This is Truly Haunting. The Human cost is just Staggering to the Imagination.
Perhaps. Nothing to do with Russia though. So the whole show is a propaganda hit piece by the CIA and Mossad.
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.
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?
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.
Yeah no kidding, you were not getting visitors in Vorkuta or somewhere up north of Magadan.
And relegation at the end of the camp penalty should have been mentioned too. However very instructive.
@Fred Garvin You have completely missed the point I was making.
@Fred Garvin Bro compared to Norilsk, Vorkuta, Road of Bones or Magadan, I'd feel lucky to be at Perm 36 in comparison
@Fred Garvin are you purposely missing the point ?
How is critique of Russian government or leadership dealt with in Russia today? How much has things improved?
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."
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.
@@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.
@@JR-wf5kg No Russians? They certainly spoke Russian. You can't count Russian-Jews as "not Russian" and count Russian-Christian as "indeed Russian".
@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.
@@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
Free Julian Assange!
You should go to Poland's border ...to see the Ukranian coming into Poland.
Exactly
From this vidio i can study history about russian for example history building and description of events that occured at that place and expand my knowledge about another country in uni eropa especially russia😉
Thank you, Eli. Very depressing, but very important to remember.
In America, we quickly forgot in the last 5 years or so...
Meanwhile, in Australia....
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.
@@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.
@@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.
Imagine a young RUclipsr talking about something interesting and historical.
Thanks subscribed !!
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.
*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.*
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.
Crimes ? They just follow order from high level leaders, only one incharge is Stalin :p
@@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.
@@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.
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.
Great deal of pain indeed.
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.
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...
@@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.
@@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.
That was deeply moving and my respect for the Russian people has increased. Thank you for your work
How's your respect for Russia doing lately??
@@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.
@@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)
No respect to Russians who approve the war and nuclear black mail shame on Russia shame on Russians!!!!
@@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😊
There are countries and governments around the world that have done worse and no one talks about it
USA is a war criminal
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!
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@streettails8045 so in your view Russia is for Russian’s?
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.
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.
@@sergeytishkin9415 you are trolling if you think stalin didn't kill al those people, stalin was pure evil!!!
@@diegoserna5481 Tell us more about Stalin, please, you clearly sound as a very informed and learned person.
@@MacakPodSIjemom whats your point dude are you saying stalin didn't kill millions of his own people?
@@MacakPodSIjemom stop defending stalin just to prove a point be thankful you were not born in his era!!!
The United States is heading in this direction sadly. We have already had politicians and citizens alike calling for “camps” to put their political opponents in.
The Russian people are heroic people. Despite the hardships and repression by the government they fought very hard against the Nazis, and saved humanity.
If you talk about USSR, then those were not only Russians, but also Ukrainians, Belorussians, Kazakhs, Tatars and many many more. They were all fighting together side by side. Unfortunately many Russians forgot their past and turned today into what they've been once fighting.
“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!
Теперь ты раб Аллаха, поздравляю. Поменял хозяина. ))))))
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.
Sosialist are in charge in many countries. They don't want to promote crimes of their predecessors.
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.
Why do you suppose we hear so much about the Holocaust and so little about the Holodomor?
@@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."
@@vishyswa good question I don't know the answer to that
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.
Shows you how quickly things can change.
What has happened to the captured Ukrainian civilians that were transported to Russia and put into "camps"?
Thank you from the bottom of my heart that you are educating people about this! my great grandfather died in there
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.
@@benangel3268 smear tactics. she may have been threatened
@@cnote3598 In reality that book was written and published by KGB. If he was so bad, why did they remarry second time?
@@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."
@@cnote3598 I refer to that Ben angel troll's comment. He is spamming it under every comment on this video:)
Beware censorship, mandates and totalitarianism. Thank you for this, it's good to be reminded from time to time.
Lets go Brandon.
@@adolfgaming1761 it’s not funny if everybody knows about it…
Ironic isn’t it.
People aren't actually sure if Stalin was right or wrong? Holy shit.
well, to be fair, in my country (which is 17300 km away from Russia) some people are sure that Mao was actually right let alone Stalin hahah
@@Kima344 Well, this is worrying, man.
@@eddiemitza2544 you see my pain
makes me angry...my great grandfather is stilllying there somewhere in the cold siberian ground.!!! my family was deported for what? yeah...they were singing our national estonian songs but Stalin wasnt happy that we had our own culture and language, so he deported over 50 000 people from my country and sent over 50 000 russians in here for return, Stalin was a sick bastard!!! and I hate that he doesnt get enough coverage...his crimes should be as famous as Hitlers!!! I hate Stalins memory from the bottom of my heart
@@HK-gm8pe I feel you, bro. My great-grandfather was captured by the red army during WW2 and was sent to a concentration camp in Siberia. He managed to escape. It took him months to get back to our homeland, but then he was recaptured and sent back to Siberia. Luckily for him, after a short period of time, our country switched sides and he was released. He rarely talked about the war, my father told me, but when he did, he had some very disturbing stories.
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.
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
Only criminals were sentenced to gulag and gulags were labour camps, not prison.
@@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.
@@sovietheart3883 Being an ethnic minority is not a crime.
@@emtioneno
Found this video yesterday. You do outstanding work in terms of your storytelling and video editing. I'm a fan of Bald and Bankrupt, but I have to admit that your vlogs on Perm and Perm 36 Gulag are superior to his. I suspect that Bald and Bankrupt is getting some of his video ideas from you. I don't have a problem with that but it will be hard for him to make better videos than you. Keep up the great work.
I irritate B&B as I keep asking him to pick me up Soviet watches and he studiously ignores me hehe I have one of the largest Soviet watch collections in the UK as I love the bloody things.
Lessons of Past Makes The Bright Future if only people of the current period understand the simple thing of life. In my opinion, what's older people said is true to this day.
Peace Eli.
No it is not. Russia is a free country today. Limitations are mentality not political.
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!
@@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 🇲🇽
@@ElifromRussia You have to show the Russians communist terror.
Another thing, how do you leave two kids in the driveway?
@@уроки_итальянского_с_мартино The point is: the children were in a dangerous place. So it's not kidnapping, but warning.
@@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: ruclips.net/video/s4JvdUWJ9jk/видео.html
@@уроки_итальянского_с_мартино If we see any risky situation, we must report it to the authorities; if we see someone in danger, we must help.
Eli..stop deleting my comments. 🤣
Could be RUclips monitors. They been deleting comments in videos that are political and issues that are considered as political to them, offensive or when exposing the truth.
Great video, but so sad. Brought a tear to my eyes... Worst thing is, there are still parts of the world with terrible suffering.....so for those of us with freedoms and half decent life, we should be thankful and remember that for some, every day is huge struggle and life is very scary.
Thanks for this educational video about the soviets unions dark past of imprisonment and mistreatment. This history is rarely taught and therefore forgotten about.
not so educational as she can ( so much lie on base of real facts
Imprisonment and mistreatment in other countries is lighted even less.
@@skywillfindyou China, NK
This is your best video yet. People are promoting "political correctness" in the USA now too. A worldwide movement has developed which revealed itself during the "pandemic" and the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath.
I shatter at the reason for quotes around pandemic.
@Emmanuel Goldstein Brother, there is nothing to "feed into". I already get an annual flu shot. My only wish is for more and higher quality education both in my own country (USA) and everywhere else in the world.
The debate over whether or not Corona is real is a red herring (Argument to an Irrelevant Conclusion) I was referring to the censorship of any opinion which contradicts "official" doctrine. US government policies can no longer be questioned.
The pandemic is real, like it or not. It's something we have to deal with. Political correctness has been going on for much longer than covid.....
Putin just openly disavowed wokeness, because he knows it is communism wrapped up in a pretty shiny bow. ✨ 🎀 and he said it is exactly what the soviets did to Russia, which he said they are still dealing with the aftermath to this day. No wonder why US propaganda tells us to hate Russia and love China because china is our daddy. All our shit is made there
Очень интересная информация. Спасибо за это видео.
Я пытаюсь выучить русский язык.
i love how Russia comes to terms with their past and is open about it, this means they can move forward with a good conscience towards the future. cheers
molotov ribbentrop pact is pain in ther ass!
It's actually EVERYONE'S past, not just Russia's. I am a Ukrainian, and the last two Soviet leaders were both half-Ukrainian (Chernenko and Gorbachev). The actual leader of the Soviet Union during the most prominent period was Stalin who was a Georgian - not even Slavic. In the post-Soviet Union, there is Russia, then 14 former SSR partners, then a further six breakaway territories within those 14 ex-SSRs which have full control of their claimed territories (whether they are widely recognised or not). I'm not counting the short-lived Chechnyan republic here which Russia retook in 1999. We all contributed to Soviet life, and that is on both sides of the contour: the governing side (even if it meant being a clerk at the local municipality) and among the dissidents (many of whom were made to suffer or die).
@@99Boiko: чей крым?
@@ilmarsbelevics Ours. But it is our own stupid fault we lost it and we have nobody to blame. Russia administered it, and had its access to the Black Sea in a way that did not prevent Ukraine having similar access, and was not disenfranchising Ukraine. Then Western funds begin landing in the bank accounts of our fifth columnists and before you know it, we decide we are an integral part of the west. In the end we lost Crimea forever, and by extension, we have lost the funds we were receiving from Moscow. We were all able to travel into Crimea freely, but now we have to clear passport control and customs to enter.
@@99Boiko: "Да что ты , чёрт побери, такое несешь?"
Great video. Sadly the Western world is moving towards a system like this, Gorbachev even questioned why Europe would want to turn itself into what Russia once was.
The west/America has already adopted the same system to a certain point. The only thing different is slave labor. Since 1/4 of the US population is in prison, that will change in the future. Especially if a war is ever fought on US soil.
Very well done.
Thank you for sharing all of this with us. Such sad times.
Amazing history.
@@lookingbehind6335 slave labor in the US penal system is literally in the constitution
We can still vote them out. That's the difference.
You're a good soul, Eli. Love from Wales.
Blessed by the fairies.
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.
@@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.
@@OldManRocketLeague
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.
@@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
Сначала подписался, но после этого видео, поливающего грязью нашу страну и пропагандирующего книгу лжеца соЛЖЕница, решил отписаться.
Bald is touring Russia and the Gulag was one of his stops, your video was more historically informative. His was more a mix of how times are changing. Bald loves the Russian people and only wants the best for them. He likes to joke calling everything a "Soviet" whatever, like he'll say look a Soviet bus stop or he'll joke that's a real Soviet frog, etc. I never heard of the Gulag until Bald did his video.
How can you never have heard of Gulag before!?
Bald is great, but he seems to have some misplaced affection for the Soviet Union, or the promise it was supposed to be, and I have seen the same feeling from other Brits. I think part of the regard for the USSR had something to do with the strong socialist movement in the UK, and also a very common revulsion many Brits feel toward the US, and I can understand where that comes from. However, it is wrong headed.
There is a book about the post USSR period called "Second Hand Time". The author interviewed people who'd experienced the changes following the breakup of the USSR. One frequent sentiment was nostalgia for the sense of community that temporarily overcame ethnic tensions during a time when many ethnicities were forced to live together. Those tensions returned with a vengeance after the break up of the USSR. But while the USSR was around, people had other things to struggle with besides their tribal affiliations. Gulags, for example.
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.
This is a beautiful production and i totally agree with you about speaking up about these subjects. We dont want all this again. Like some communist country thats doing this today is horrible.. Thanks Eli
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.
No
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. 🙄🙄
The story is a fake mostly
It was used for West propaganda against USSR and later against Russia
The book is a fake too, he did it for West order, now it proved already
@@caiolima5016 Yes
@@paulevans8348 no
Another of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's books I would recommend is "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". It has the theme of bucking the system in the camps by doing the job better than expected of the prisoners. Thank you, Eli, for a great video, even non Russians need to remember how life can be under a totalitarian regime. We must learn from history.
That was an awesome book. I've read it a few times.
No ish sherlock. I recommend War and peace for Talstoy and Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare
British empire invented concentration camps
@@geoeconomics5629 True enough, this kind of barbarism is not uniquely Russian. But it must be remembered wherever it happens.
@@geoeconomics5629 the British also invented racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia. They invented much of what is evil today.
What a powerful video! We must never forget.
@@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!
@@logicaredux5205
correct
GULAG is very very close 2021-2022
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
EXCELLENT video. There are quite a few countries in the world that have a very dark part in their history but by not burying it or denying it and showing it to new generations they hope that this history will never repeat itself. I am pleased to see that Russia has the same thinking and is brave enough to preserve horrific places like this as a reminder.
His wife Natalya Reshetovskaya described him as a despot and a liar in her book
Sanya: My life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
He was also accused by others of being a CIA agent.
Only the most severe hardened criminals are sent here. Such as : WRITERS, TRANSLATORS, POLITICAL OPPOSITION. 😮😮😮😢 WoW doesn't even begin to describe it ...... I hope I can help write something or translate for you one day!!!!
I found this video most educational. One thing in your closing you talked about expressing views and learning about history even the most difficult part. This has been a bedrock of USA culture and required learning in our schools for generations. Unfortunately that culture is under assault today. I find more and more it is more prevalent in former communist countries.
america is a lost cause
@News Hound interesting comment as those weren’t republicans pulling down statues and defacing histrionic markers. Besides it wasn’t republicans that the civil rights movement was protesting against and it was a Republican who emancipated the staves.
I would NEVER consider "Gulag" Russian. It was Stalin's!!
Greetings from Serbia.
@Fred Garvin
Like "Stalin" gulag (as you think of it)!? No!
Of course not!
Otherwise anti-Russian propaganda in the West would be all over it! Like periodically you can see "documentary's" about Putin. Where "fact's" are SERVED with appropriate music/melody in the background. ! WHAT do you think what is purpose of that music (in "documentary's")??
Like in the Movies to manipulate feelings (of the viewers)!!
If you want to know facts you listen all side's and then CONCLUDE on your own. You don't eat only what is served! No meter how much you are bombarded with it.
Any concentration camp's in the "West"!?? Guantanamo (American's and at least one British were serving time there)!??
@Fred Garvin
Oh Yeah!?!? Say's who??
That is Absolute NONSENSE!
When Putin come on Power in 2000, HE sit down with OLIGARCH (who enormously GOT RICH when Russian people looked for food in garbage bin's in 1990's) and said, you ROBBED Russian people, OK, but YOU WILL HAVE TO INVEST NOW Back in Russia!! Oligarch who agreed stayed in Russia!! OLIGARCH WHO DID NOT WANTED TO RETURN STOLEN MONEY RUN OUT FROM RUSSIA with money!!
MANY of them now LIVE IN LONDON (UK)!! NO ONE touching them there!!
The WORST RUTHLESS OLIGARCH is now (living) ON THE WEST AND THEY ARE OPPOSITION TO PUTIN!!
Secondly I DIDN'T saw in Russia any one BEATING PEOPLE because they don't want to vaccinate!!!
When someone want to put (something) INSIDE YOUR BODY WITH OUT YOU PERMISSION USE TO CALL RAPE!!! No mater if it is "forcefully" imposed or "voluntary" FORCEFULLY (threating with lost of jobs) !!
I don't want to abolish or support Putin but I am against PROPAGANDA that surround him (that STARTED ONLY when Russia stared to return in World stage and will continue after him) !
300 calories a day is slow starvation. I believe there are those in the US who would like to duplicate this if they could.
The camps are coming, for "novax". Shalom.
"Let's go Brandon!".
@@ElCid48 hell of a Nascar driver....
@@doddsalfa There were no nazi's, members of the NSDAP never referred to themselves as that slur, but guess what tribe of (goblins) came up with that slur.
This is 5 star hotel comparing to Guantanamo. Это 5-звездочный отель по сравнению с Гуантанамо.
Hopefully we can learn about the past time in order that we are wiser to do anything in the future. I like to hear more about Soviet Union's history. Love from Indonesia.
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.
@@benangel3268 and Putin just openly disavowed wokeness and communism saying it is exactly what the soviets did to Russia. Wake up and STOP being a useful idiot. Communism seeks to destroy language, culture, history and traditions. It is ANTIHUMAN. Communism is colonization
@@vmat2957
What about countries and imperialist European control when they spreading capitalism throughout the world? Eg England, who took away the cultures and languages of there colonies. What about Praga U who has changed history to try and glorify imperialistic history and make out nothing horrible happened. What about Denmark-Norway and Sweden when under capitalist control and banned the Sammi and Finnish languages and children were punished for speaking their own languages
Yes in China they teach Chinese in school, against the wishes in the autonomous Uyghar region. Perhaps they should teach it.
However, the Western propaganda that their language is banned is BS. All the signposts and sogns are given in their language first and Chinese second.
@@benangel3268 OP didn't say anything about Solzhenitsyn. I'm confused about your intention with spamming this comment. Are you trying to deny the existence or the conditions of the Gulags? If so, why? What is your interest in denying this aspect of history?
@@Chefysambal
Thank you for giving me the chance to explain.
I am no fan of enforced labour, believe there are people who were wrongly convicted and deplore the execution orders. The death penalty was only applied during WW2. That doesn't make it correct.
Here is my problem
1) It irks me only hearing and reading negative things about Russia and China. For 57 years of my life I cannot remember hearing anything positive said. I want to bring about some balance.
2) Hearing David Icke claiming that the secret societies planned out all the wars and problems in this world to bring about a socialist / communist new world order. He actually praises libertarian capitalism. It took me a long time, but eventually I realised it was the other way round. Most of the wars have been to destroy socialist / communist countries. Most of the problems (eg crippling sanctions, trade blockedes, backing extreme right wing group to name a few) created to destroy socialist / communist countries.
3) The anti communist books only give guesstimates which contradict each other and confict with statistics.
4) None of them give comparisons to the brutal Tsarist regime that preceded it. Which kept 90% in poverty and under-educated. There are no mainstream comparisons to the Neoliberal system that replaced socialism with horrible results.
5) No comparisons are made to horrendous events and crimes committed by capitalist steered governments throughout the world. Neither the tens and millions killed.
6) No mention is made about the attempts by the USA, the imperialist countries and the Nazi fascists in overthrowing the Soviet Union since it's inception. Could this have made it more aggressive and authoritarian?
7) No mention is made about those in the USSR who sided with the intelligence agents of these countries, or even worse collaborating with the Nazis
8) No mention is made about the violent and terrorist attacks made against socialists and communists. Including the killing of 1300 civil servants.
Thank you for giving a look at the Perm36 camp!
I'm German. Many years ago I visited a concentration camp. Your report reminds me of that. Much is similar - the dormitories for 250 people. And the few calories you got to eat.
Some things are different - of course. Nobody got visitors in the concentration camp. It is important that we remember, so once again: Thank you very much !!!
I am shocked that - did I understand you correctly? - there is the only camp as a museum? I have the Book “Gulag archipelago” here too. Maybe I'll start reading it again now.
And yes: we have to talk about it, remember it and build museums.
Thank you and greetings from the North-Western area of Germany.
I think she alluded to the reason why there is only one. The others were dismantled and largely removed from public consciousness.
The soviets relied on overtly controlling the narrative. When a mistake was made the only option is to stop, make the thing disappear, and give the people a plausible story to explain it away (which I'm assuming no one actually believed). One could argue that part of the reason the soviet union fell was because Gorbachev started admitting mistakes.
To be fair the west handled this in a different but still probably ethically dubious way. Up until the last 10 years or so it was very easy to get lots of people to support bad government decisions by invoking patriotism. Soviet style surveillance of the citizenry, which would have been found to be offensive to most of the US populace in 1999 met very little resistance when it was passed two years later as the Patriot Act immediately after the world trade center was destroyed.
@@kevvystu9343 Yes, of course I know that!
We learn it here as a toddler.
We have a reason to think about EVERY day in life.
It was terrible what my people did!
The Russians in particular suffered greatly from my people!
I am very sorry, like almost all Germans!
But I think that I can still ask questions.
I want to learn to understand more.
I think asking questions helps more than keeping quiet.
The issue has been erased in the West, dismissed with a laugh, seen as a Monty Python style comedy of errors but not a crime against humanity, this episode by Marxism Leninism which globally killed 50 x the number that died in the holocaust, now Marxism has added another 5 million via Covid 19 to write yet another glorious chapter.
the guardian news reported the actual number is 10 -19million more
@@laszlozoltan5021 thank you, all victims of the unfolding of the historical process of course.
I don't know why Russians feel shame because of these camps. Ones alive today had nothing to do with it, just Lenin and Stalin. Even Khrushchev started a DeStalinization sp?? program. I'm sure every country has regrets of one thing or another. I don't know why Germany teaches children about Holocaust like they are to blame. Thank you for showing this, I had no idea so many died and the conditions and the cruelty for the slightest offence. And to Stalin's own people. I do like your vids showing Russia's architecture, beautiful
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.
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.
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Thank you for sharing Eli, I’ve always found Russian history fascinating, currently reading about the Romanovs but have read The Gulag archipelago & amazing to think they all lived within the same century!
You should read his wife's book. Natalya Reshetovskaya described him as a despot and a liar in her book
Sanya: My life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
He was also accused by others of being a CIA agent.
твои знания о России могут быть травмированными, как и те авторы которых ты выберешь для чтения.
Putin would like to recreate this system. There is no end to his cruelty and inhumanity.
😂 Зеленский мирный по вашему? Путин делает в ответ то, что начали сша вместе с Украиной и когда начали обстреливать Донбасс и устраивать геноцид русских.
I'm always amazed when people like Nelson Mandela or Alexander Solzhenitsyn who spent more than a decade in a Russian gulag are still able to function enough to write books and still have their sanity and a positive outlook.
Pretty sure I sure as hell wouldn't and the person responsible would do well to make sure I never walk out
*Nelson Mandela was not in the Gulag, ignorant, he was in prison because he was against apartheid and because he was a communist.*
*On the other hand, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was in a Gulag for being pro-tsarist, pro-Nazi, anti-communist, anti-socialist, pro-Francoist, colonialist, fascist, defender of tsarism and all the fascist dictatorships in the world that the United States imposed. .*
It's horrifying even walking through these structures, I would become crazy even in a hour inside.... 😦
Because you have not been introduce to the US prison system, plus their history of it. Do you know the story of Sacco and Vanzetti ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti
@@ernstwiltmann6 Why belittle one persons feelings about touring such places? And then bring up something unrelated? Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, they did not stay in a gulag, concentration camp, prison labor camp, or relocation center. You might have made a better point bringing up post-slavery prison labor camps, or even WW2 "relocation centers". I've toured Manzanar and had probably similar feelings to those who tour a gulag or concentration camp, even though Manzanar may not have had the same level of horror.
@@runrig97 It was not my intention to belittle ones feelings, if that was your take, I apologize for it.
We need the Gulag in America. We used to have Prisons very similar to the Gulag in Russia. For example I visited the Old Penitentiary in Boise Idaho. In old Times the Law was hard and swift. Not always right I assume, but for most part the punishment fit the crime. Now a days they have Recreation Facilities like Basketball Courts, weightlift equipment Gym's, Libraries, TV in every Room, lots of Luxury in a way that some People don't have. We still have Monsters but they are treated much better and in a way they don't deserve. That's maybe one reason that Prison Gates like Rotating doors. I think there should be a drastic difference in Punishment and Prisons. I believe some Individuals would deserve the setting of a Gulag. We need to learn from our History and Past. I always imagine and think how it could become when this one World Order would take total Power. The WHO already has much more Power then it should have and it is dangerous. We could return to Futuristic Gulags just highly Modernized and much more Gruesome.
My parents were first cousins. Needless to say, I was bullied for that in school. I was very much ashamed of that fact. As soon as I found myself in highschool I hide that fact from everybody which steemed from my shame. Only on my late 20's I realized that I shouldn't be ashamed of something that it was not my fault and that I couldn't do anything to correct. I'm Portuguese. We were the first country to bring people from Africa and to put them to work for us. We invented slavery 500 years ago. Am I ashamed? No. I refuse to atone for my ancesters sins. It is just not fair. The same with you Eli. Be thoughtful about it, do not forget the lesson and work for it not to repeat in Russia or anywhere else in the world. But don't be ashamed of it, it was not your doing. Whatever country it is, all have their far less than ideal moments in history. Digest it, don't lie about it or hide it but don't be a "prisoner" of that past also. Keep on the good work. Your chanel is very good.
I had no idea Portugal had slavery before the US! No one here learns this in school. Racism calling whites racist constantly by blacks and always bringing up slavery gets old when I never had family members living in the Southeast US to own slaves. My grandpa had relatives on the Cherokee Indian trail of tears, but people with Cherokee blood like me never bring that up and talk about racism like these young blacks who want the government to pay them for what their ancestors went thru. It hasn’t happened as far as payments , but they’ve been pushing for it. And they’re benefiting for living in the US getting free things from the government without working, many are college educated and have good jobs, though, but still call racism when we have had a black president and now a black woman Vice President so I think we’ve come a long way from those days. Thanks Eli for your great vlog!
@@debbiemeyer7666 Lol, the romans and the Greeks had slaves.. Portugal started the slavery in the sense of going overseas to africa and bring them back. Google: "The transatlantic slave trade began during the 15th century when Portugal, and subsequently other European kingdoms, were finally able to expand overseas and reach Africa. The Portuguese first began to kidnap people from the west coast of Africa and to take those they enslaved back to Europe." Botton line all northern western countries are tainted. The difference is when did they aknowledge and stopped it: Portugal in 1836; USA in 1865. But, look, everybody was living like that at that time. Saying otherwise is like blaming a soviet russian for not having manifesting on the streets against Stalin... we are all human beings and we do stuff today that tomorrow will be considered shameful. Let's just aknowledge and correct our ways from now on because anything else is not solving any issue and it's even devisive.
Some of those "Portugese" were Jewish.No people are blameless or strictly victims.Slavery was and is lucrative trade in Africa and the Americas between tribes.Sorry to hear you were tormented for so long,glad to hear you let it go and feel free to say it out loud.
Well done for having the strength to overcome the shame that you unfairly felt for so many years,and also for having the guts to put it out here to subtly make such an excellent point for Eli to think on, hopefully Eli gains something real & positive from your words.
@@MariaMMCardoso good point, but you spelled Putin wrong mate
So sad that so many human beings were mistreated in that way. I first learned about the camps when I was 15 years old (1972) during a summer in Mexico when I friend gave me a copy of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". It was riveting. Thank you for the video and the forthrightness in which you presented the information. God bless.
"One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich" is not a documentary book, there is a lot of fiction there.
Another horrific documentary was written by an Iranian communist!
Dr. Safavi who crossed into USSR in 1953-4 and ended up into a Magadan labor camp for almost 10 years and Later on continued his medical profession there until 1979 Iranian revolution and was returned to Iran and wasn’t happy so returned to Tajikistan and later to Canada till his death in Canada .
You shouldn't believe each word of Uncle Solzh.
Solzhenitsyn was typical xenopatrriot who hated Russia and Russian people and was kissing west ass. Most Russian classic writers hated thouse people.
Dostoevsky:
"Russian liberalism is not an attack on the
existing order of things, but is an attack
on the very essence of our things, on the
very things, and not on the order alone, not
on the Russian order, but on Russia itself.
Our liberal has reached the point where he
denies Russia itselt, that is, he hates and
beats his mother. Every unfortunate and
unfortunate Russian fact excites laughter
and almost delight in him. He hates folk
customs, Russian history everything. If
there is an excuse for him, it is that he does
not understand what he is doing, and takes
his hatred of Russia for the most fruitful
liberalism"..
Almost all of our people had ancestors in prison in the 30s. My great-grandfather was shot because he said that under the tsar they lived better, there was more food and less women worked. I read a criminal case.
Thank you so much for this information, My family is from Poland, Russia and Czechloslovakia, and described much of what you said. The main driving force in peoples lives was fear, fear of speeking or acting in a way that would get you noticed. Fear is a terrible way to live, and yet, many in the US feel that communism is the better way. Its better for the top 1%, and suffering for the rest. Thanks again and God bless.
Sadly, too many in the US can't see the ugly side of communism. The country is kinda divided; as many here do realize the potential for horrible possibilities that follow.
Are you crazy??we in America do not believe in that..quit telling lies..you must be a leftie kook..
@@elizabeth-tl9pv Read the book: A World Apart: The Journal of a Gulag Survivor by Gustaw Herling Grudzinski. He was the very first person who wrote about Gulag. He was Polish. He survived the Gulag. HORRIBLE experience, I couldn't sleep for months after reading is memoir.
As a black man in America. Who has family watched by the FBI, Communities destroyed, and police gangs extrajudicially kill people for minor crimes.
I hate when modern shit makes like ripoff versions of history as like avengers using mythology gods as hero like
OK LETS HAVE JESUS JOIN AVENGERS THEN.
and gulag with the call of duty camp i don't think its accurate adn its like made fun off
Thank you for this very well composed and visually impressive historical update on the Gulag archipelago. It is so crucial for us in the West to be constantly aware of what really happened in powerful countries controlled by an evil regime. China is the newest example today, but far from the only one. Russia under Putin remains a country controlled by terror and assassinations.Keep digging!
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.
@@benangel3268 other independent people such as Polish deportees back Solzhenitsyns stories. Communists suck, same as Nazis.
@@redtobertshateshandles
I'm sure some of them do.
At least the anti communist Polish were not fighting on the same side as the Nazis. Like thousands of anti communist fascists in The Soviet Union or Ukraine.
Though I guess that makes sense, since the first people Hitler threw into concentration camps were communists. The socialists were thrown out of parliament, despite him standing on the German Socialist Party banner. In order to get into power, where he did a deal the Conservative leader Paul van Hindenburg who supported capitalism.
Thank you for such an informative video! I am a Russian learner and absolutely love your videos. I’m learning so much about Russian culture and history!
Fantastic episode, great you do not forget the past, unlike the west where a lot of academics are attempting to rewrite history in their own views. Keep up the good work.
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.
@@benangel3268 Why are you spamming this nonsense on every comment of this video?
@@UMORIEGA
Because I am sick and tired of only hearing and reading negative things about Russia and only reading and hearing negative shit about China..
So after 57 years living on this planet I decided to portrays another side of the story. By his wife.
That part with 20min late at work give me repulsion. I had Gulag arhipelago when I was 15. Still unable to read all. But i read it different books. Karamazov brothers etc.
Beautifully produced and narrated video Елена. You’re very intelligent and wonderful to listen to. The history and cultural guilt remind me of my own of Germany 🇩🇪. Even though it was 2 generations before my time. There is still this sense of the past and a clear focus on not repeating it. We’ll done ✅ очень хорошо 😊
I discovered your channel recently. By coincidence I saw a first part (or three) documentary on the gulag last evening. It is on the french/german
channel Arte. (their channel have 6 different languages available but unfortunately the documentary is only available in french or german). I knew
about the gulag before but the documentary goes deeper in how and why it was established. Thank you for this visit about Russia’s dark past.
America's future under leftist rule.
Being imprisoned was not hilarious - seems like the USA is adopting all of this.
Aris Tom Yes, and on an epic scale with the highest prison - slave population per capita in the world.
certainly that beacon of freedom and democracy, usa, is adapting such camps with gusto . usa now has the largest ever prison population ever to exist on earth. with disproportionate percentage of them people of color due to systemic racism in usa.
You are talking about prison camps. USA have no prisons? While "GULAG" is administration of prisons. USSR had lesser % of prisoners than USA. Shame is to say wrong and nonsense.
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
Your on the right trail. Keep digging
Hello, Eli. How very coincidental that I just recently opened this same 1973 (first edition, I think) copy of Aleksandr's great work. And you mention a prisoner being punished for possessing a copy of a Bulgakov book. I was a host of the Perestroika Exhibit many years ago and given a copy of H𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘖𝘧 𝘈 𝘋𝘰g as a gift. Probably the most interesting book I own with its mismatched type fonts and misaligned justification. It's been a highlight of my life to study the Russian authors, particularly the so-called Silver Age poets and the era of Akhmatova. One day, post-Covid, I'll get to see these places associated with Anna, Boris P. and so many others that reside in my Romantic imagination. Be well, please, and travel safely.
Eli mentions the book. Archeopelago Gulag.
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 by others of being a CIA agent.
I wonder which of her 5 re-writes of 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 drove Tolstoy's wife over the edge. And is her departed spirit comparing notes of marital servitude with the the wife of Charles Bukowski and other miserable wives of great writers on a peaceful plane somewhere? Probably.