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.
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!
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
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!
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!
@@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.
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 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 ruclips.net/video/AJ3Plnj5P_s/видео.html
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.*
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…
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
Thank you for sharing this, Eli. I hope this is viewed widely. It is terrifying, saddening, and infuriating with equal measure. People everywhere need to be reminded / remember what happened in the past so that we have a chance of not repeating these mistakes.
"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
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.
“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!
Love watching your videos, Elie! Thank you for sharing your life and travels. ✌💜🇨🇦 praying for the 'special operation' to end soon as possible. Stay 💪 strong and stay safe!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
"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.
Eli, thank you. I am 71 yr old man in america and greatly enjoyed you tour of the camp and explanations. This is very relevant for us here as we face many similar changes going on. Your final comment was especially important. I'm grateful for the way you are speaking up.
It's heading that way all over the western nations. Here in England we have already lost free speech. People are being shamed and silenced for views, opinions etc. We're already on the slippery slope to the gulag.
@@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)
@@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😊
“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
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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
You're a rebel, Elina! To gulag with you! You are a true educator. So much respect! You deserve 200 million subscribers. Each of your videos are so captivating and inspirational.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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
@@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 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.
Thank you for not being silent, thank you for honouring your countries history so as it may not repeat itself anymore & thank you for trying to be the change you want to see in the world. I love your channel and wish I had found it sooner, but am grateful to have it now 🖖🏻🖤✨
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.
@@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.
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!
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.
Eli, I too an alumnus of RUDN University, but studied during Soviet period. Zhil v pervom bloke. I stayed with russian friends in my room. Interestingly, I didn't hear anything of this kind. Only thing I knew that Perm was a closed ( zakrity) gorod and we foreigners were not allowed to go. I'm really shocked to watch the video.
Amazing video!! Great presentation, editing and summary for others to understand what they are seeing and why it happened/why you are showing it. G-d Bless you:)
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.
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.
@@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."
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.
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
@@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.
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.
Thanks to Eli, for producing this video - and your series in general. All of us are far more alike, than we are different... and travel truly does reinforce this happy fact. 😊
This makes me want to just sit and cry. I think every country in the world has a history of this kind of atrocity involving one group of people or another. I say this not to minimize it in any way but to keep people from thinking, “it is them, but not us”. You are an incredibly talented woman. We are so lucky to have your broadcasts.
Dont believe in the anticommunist propaganda. Gulags were built to save humanity from fascism. Only criminal fascists were arrested and sentenced to gulag.
@@florianmeier3186 The soviet union fought mass murders. First germany, than the US. Only imperialists can be mass murders and imperialism evolves out of capitalism.
Bargainbassist It takes a lot more courage in the US, to bring up the Ùntold History of the United States ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=Oliver+Stone+%C3%99ntold+History+of+the+United+States by Oliver Stone . The organization `The American endowment for Democracy ` invest massively in other countries, like Russia, Cuba and Venezuela, just to name a few, to support articles like this one from Eli.
Eli, As I was watching this, especially right before you mention it THE GULAG ARCHEPELAGO, I was thinking about. In fact, just this past year, I read it for the second time. What you're presenting here really does give a good visual idea of the point Solzhenitzyn was making. Bolshoi Spasiba!
All that Solzhinitsin wrote is a lie. This character wrote this in the United States for the money of the CIA. There has never been such a camp as the GULAG. GULAG, this is a transcription. It literally stands for General Administration of Camps. This is the administrative building, where the bookkeepers, economists in the management, provision of prisons work. This madam does not know the name, multiplies fakes and hypes on unknowing people.
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.
As I worked primarily in Vermont, U.S.A. I drove by his home many times. Locals say he was a bit recluse and mostly kept to himself. Really enjoyed this video Eli. Thank you so much for your education.
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.
Thank you so much for your excellent journalism. You are honest, sensitive, smart and brave. Thank you for all of your videos. Ironically, I found you BECAUSE of the actions of your ruler. I love the way you describe history.
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.
This is the informative stuff that needs to be spread around the world! The comment from Silphwave is to be heeded as long as the former KGB agent is in charge!
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.
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 .
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.
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
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).
@@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.
Truly overwhelming! Thank you so much for sharing. As a Chilean, I've always been interested in the field of Transitional Justice after brutal dictatorships. You have made a tremendous contribution to memory and history. Well done!
Chile and Pinochet coup supported by the Wall Street İMF and the CİA against the popularly elected docialist Allende.. There are Ameticans who wrote on this but they are not mentioned much.
@@franciscolobo2715 never heard of him. Will search now John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman was somewhat popular for a while. Read his articles not his book but gives inside info on coups.
Another incredible narrative of Soviet past. Your vlog brings to light what people wanted to know about Gulag; who imprisoned there, why were they there, how long were their sentence, living condition, their punishments… wow! Keep up the good work👍
Thank you again Eli - for your honesty and your presentation of a difficult subject. Unfortunately all nations have some dark periods in their history; also in Britain there has been much in our past that we would be ashamed of today- slavery, cruelty, poverty, - we should be honest and learn from our mistakes.
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.
Thank you, that was really fascinating. I'm really captured by the history of the Soviet Union. When I was a boy we had an exchange student from the Leningrad choir. I still have the money and books he gave us as a gift, I've been fascinated ever since
We in the west are so ignorant to history or we believe so unconditionally to the idea of progress that we need to be reminded of the sad realities of what totalitarianism can bring. Thank you for posting this and for your very honest work of presenting Russia through your eyes. God bless.
That is not true. The West invests a lot in scientific excavation of history and education. There is maybe some aspects which are ignored and that is sad, but that there is ignorance towards history and "unconditional believe to the idea of progress" is so completely wrong. There are huge groups especially in Western societies which heavily doubt progress. I wish they would acknowledge more some recent achievements. And there are lots of clubs in Europe which try to keep history alive by replays, building and maintaining memorials, collecting and presenting letters, books and every day goods of specific periods in history and encourage young people to face it. There was also such thing in Russia, but forbidden and destroyed by current gouvernment which wants nobody to cover up their lies.
@@florianmeier3186 Nonsense. The Western education system is dedicated to falsifying history, pushing a "6 million" narrative, while skimming over their allied atrocities. That's actually the only time they promote their own as good guys, the rest of the time is dedicated to wh1te guilt and promoting blak victimhood. Whether there are private clubs dedicated to preserving historical accuracy is kind of irrelevant if the bulk of the population is still just as indoctrinated as the average Russian. The average westerner might as well believe that Inglourious basterds was a documentary
@@dwillbecancelledsoon4086 You can make strange assumptions about our educational system even that it is more or less the same in the whole "West", but by that it does not become true. In my case even at the same school the teaching was significantly different between several teachers and about black victimhood nobody ever talked even what you call a "6 million narrative", which I think is rather inappropriate for what happened in Schoah and also non Jewish Eastern Europe, was less present as you might think. The education was more focused on context and people than numbers. Further you should not forget that my generation was surrounded by people who witnessed that time and therefore brought another perspective. But it is poor, to excuse current criminal acts with the past or the education . And inglorious bastards plays a rather negligible role in our understanding of it. It was rather recent that I recognized that comedy.
You never read The Gulag Archipel by Solzjenitsyn? And now you dedicate your reportages to Russian 'filtration camps'. It's happening right in front of you. Don't miss this historical challenge.
Wow, Eli, beautifully done! Such an important video, especially since so many younger people in the West are completely ignorant of the history of Communism! Hopefully, many will see this! Peace from USA💕
Thank you for a very well presented video tour. I really appreciated your objectivity. As a Westerner, I've wondered my whole life, what these camps were like. I didn't know that they've all been erased, except for the camp you visited. This is a valuable piece of documentary video. Sincere thanks. I must read Gulag Archipelago myself now! :)
Having grown up during the cold war in the UK I find the history of the former Soviet Union and Russia absolutely fascinating Fantastic video Love your work
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 😊
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.
Thanks for this educational video about the soviets unions dark past of imprisonment and mistreatment. This history is rarely taught and therefore forgotten about.
Thank you so much for giving us a picture of what life in a GULAG was like. I have read Slavomir Rawicz’s account of escaping Camp 303 near Yakutsk in The Long Walk, but your video really brings to life the feeling of being in a GULAG. I am glad Russia no longer lives under communism and people like you can talk openly about the past and help us learn from it.
Just be aware of something. This video talks about the repressive measures taken by a leadership during a certain time. The existence of gulags is not an argument against communism, or one-party rule. According to Russia bashers in the corporate media, Russians are still living in the same conditions as it is implied that Putin is a "dictator", and anyone who opposes his ends up "poisoned" and all else. Worth also noting is that in Russia's most previous elections, the Communist Party (which is pro-Soviet) has picked up the second largest number of votes, and as a party it ranks either third or fourth largest with regards membership numbers. That party has sibling parties in all former Soviet states even if some are outlawed and compelled to operate below the radar. So the wider picture remains very intricate.
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 ?
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
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
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
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Still happening in China
@@iosis2009 china was black 150 years ago...
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…
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.
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! :)
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
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.
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.
Thank you for sharing this, Eli. I hope this is viewed widely. It is terrifying, saddening, and infuriating with equal measure. People everywhere need to be reminded / remember what happened in the past so that we have a chance of not repeating these mistakes.
We should build more gulags.
So you will be the first new resident.@@sovietheart3883
"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
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.
“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. ))))))
Love watching your videos, Elie! Thank you for sharing your life and travels. ✌💜🇨🇦 praying for the 'special operation' to end soon as possible. Stay 💪 strong and stay safe!
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 !!
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.
Your words become ever more relevant in the time that passes since your published this video.
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?
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:)
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
Very informative, Eli. Thank you for the tour.
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.
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.
"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
Eli, thank you. I am 71 yr old man in america and greatly enjoyed you tour of the camp and explanations. This is very relevant for us here as we face many similar changes going on. Your final comment was especially important. I'm grateful for the way you are speaking up.
It's heading that way all over the western nations. Here in England we have already lost free speech. People are being shamed and silenced for views, opinions etc. We're already on the slippery slope to the gulag.
What changes do you mean?
The West is going down that very path. Are you not watching it?
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😊
“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"
💝💘💖
Do not read Solzhenitsyn! Very misleading fiction.
@@sebji9581 Oh please. He is Russia's greatest author of the second half of the 20th century...
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 ?
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
@@caiolima-r3w Yes
@@paulevans8348 no
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.
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?
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
You're a rebel, Elina! To gulag with you! You are a true educator. So much respect! You deserve 200 million subscribers. Each of your videos are so captivating and inspirational.
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!!!
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.
YOU TUBE: The Communist Holocaust in Eastern Europe (Master-minded By Atheistic Jews)
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
Eli's way of explaining the Gulag without dwelling into personal stories is beautiful. Well done.
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.
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
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.
God Bless you. I am learning so much from you. I pray you will not be stopped from continuing your channel. Miki from Minnesota USA.
Thank you for not being silent, thank you for honouring your countries history so as it may not repeat itself anymore & thank you for trying to be the change you want to see in the world.
I love your channel and wish I had found it sooner, but am grateful to have it now 🖖🏻🖤✨
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.
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.
Interesting video - one of your best. Thanks! Bravo for the last minute...
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!
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.
Eli, thank you so much for this! You and your work are greatly appreciated!👍
Eli, I too an alumnus of RUDN University, but studied during Soviet period. Zhil v pervom bloke. I stayed with russian friends in my room. Interestingly, I didn't hear anything of this kind. Only thing I knew that Perm was a closed ( zakrity) gorod and we foreigners were not allowed to go. I'm really shocked to watch the video.
Thanks for the info. God bless and take care, Eli.
Beautiful work! I really enjoy how you present the information. Such a sad part of history, but important to remember.
Amazing video!! Great presentation, editing and summary for others to understand what they are seeing and why it happened/why you are showing it. G-d Bless you:)
This is such a good video. Thank you for making it and sharing it with us.
thank you Eli, you did great job.People should never forget it
Wonderful video, Eli. Great narration and knowledge of Stalin’s horrors. Thank you.
I like the cannibal Island, Stalin's crowning achievement.
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
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.
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.
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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.
That was very great work it is really good to see someone out there with the guts to speak up about real genocides thank you 🙏 and take care 👍🏼
Thanks for this info We truly live on a planet of sorrows But there is always hope for the future.
Thanks to Eli, for producing this video - and your series in general. All of us are far more alike, than we are different... and travel truly does reinforce this happy fact. 😊
frighteningly enlightening Thank you for the upload Eli.
From Canada
Excellent work, Eli. I was horrified by what happened to the prisoners and delighted by the ending when you said "Peace."
This makes me want to just sit and cry. I think every country in the world has a history of this kind of atrocity involving one group of people or another. I say this not to minimize it in any way but to keep people from thinking, “it is them, but not us”. You are an incredibly talented woman. We are so lucky to have your broadcasts.
Dont believe in the anticommunist propaganda. Gulags were built to save humanity from fascism. Only criminal fascists were arrested and sentenced to gulag.
No, not every country has. It is German and SU history to push mass murder to that extend noone else.
@@florianmeier3186 The soviet union fought mass murders. First germany, than the US. Only imperialists can be mass murders and imperialism evolves out of capitalism.
In the majority of cases there is a common cause.
Georgians should pay for atrocities committed by Stalin and Beria. Till today they did not acknowledged responsibility for Stalin and Beria deeds.
Your courage as well as conscience to make this video proves that you are a more beautiful soul than I already believed you are.
Bargainbassist It takes a lot more courage in the US, to bring up the Ùntold History of the United States ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=Oliver+Stone+%C3%99ntold+History+of+the+United+States by Oliver Stone . The organization `The American endowment for Democracy ` invest massively in other countries, like Russia, Cuba and Venezuela, just to name a few, to support articles like this one from Eli.
Superb documentary talent. Absolutely excellent quality of video and commentary. Eli is awesome!
Eli, As I was watching this, especially right before you mention it THE GULAG ARCHEPELAGO, I was thinking about. In fact, just this past year, I read it for the second time. What you're presenting here really does give a good visual idea of the point Solzhenitzyn was making. Bolshoi Spasiba!
All that Solzhinitsin wrote is a lie. This character wrote this in the United States for the money of the CIA. There has never been such a camp as the GULAG. GULAG, this is a transcription. It literally stands for General Administration of Camps. This is the administrative building, where the bookkeepers, economists in the management, provision of prisons work. This madam does not know the name, multiplies fakes and hypes on unknowing people.
@@philipjfry199, ⬆⬆If anyone was wondering why all the camps were demolished, here's your answer: ⬆⬆
@@Ridingrules10000 You're watching it here! They piss in your ears, but you are happy and blow bubbles! :)))
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.
Gulag Archipelago is full of lies and written specifically for the western public
What an amazing video! Humane, balanced with no emotional or rhetorical hyperboles. Excellent work miss!
As I worked primarily in Vermont, U.S.A. I drove by his home many times. Locals say he was a bit recluse and mostly kept to himself.
Really enjoyed this video Eli.
Thank you so much for your education.
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn lived in Vermont. I just learned that.
Who, Bernie the commie?
He was a fascist.
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.
This video was very educational and much needed. Thanks for sharing Eli!
Thank you so much for your excellent journalism. You are honest, sensitive, smart and brave. Thank you for all of your videos. Ironically, I found you BECAUSE of the actions of your ruler. I love the way you describe history.
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.
This is the informative stuff that needs to be spread around the world! The comment from Silphwave is to be heeded as long as the former KGB agent is in charge!
Thank you for posting this. America needs to see this now more than ever. That is an excelent book you recomended. Hope many more Americans read it.
Thank You for this Eli.
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.
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?"
Truly overwhelming! Thank you so much for sharing. As a Chilean, I've always been interested in the field of Transitional Justice after brutal dictatorships. You have made a tremendous contribution to memory and history. Well done!
Chile and Pinochet coup supported by the Wall Street İMF and the CİA against the popularly elected docialist Allende.. There are Ameticans who wrote on this but they are not mentioned much.
@@mehmetkurtkaya3106 Indeed! I recommend "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins
@@franciscolobo2715 never heard of him. Will search now
John Perkins Confessions of an Economic Hitman was somewhat popular for a while. Read his articles not his book but gives inside info on coups.
Another incredible narrative of Soviet past. Your vlog brings to light what people wanted to know about Gulag; who imprisoned there, why were they there, how long were their sentence, living condition, their punishments… wow! Keep up the good work👍
You might like this gulag documentary then m.ruclips.net/video/tpQWxIvReKI/видео.html&pp=ygUadGhlIHNvdmlldCBzdG9yeSBnZW5vY2lkaW8%3D
Thank you again Eli - for your honesty and your presentation of a difficult subject. Unfortunately all nations have some dark periods in their history; also in Britain there has been much in our past that we would be ashamed of today- slavery, cruelty, poverty, - we should be honest and learn from our mistakes.
The colonization history, forgotten lol
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.
Thank you, that was really fascinating. I'm really captured by the history of the Soviet Union. When I was a boy we had an exchange student from the Leningrad choir. I still have the money and books he gave us as a gift, I've been fascinated ever since
you are so brave eli! thank you for this
We in the west are so ignorant to history or we believe so unconditionally to the idea of progress that we need to be reminded of the sad realities of what totalitarianism can bring. Thank you for posting this and for your very honest work of presenting Russia through your eyes. God bless.
That is not true. The West invests a lot in scientific excavation of history and education. There is maybe some aspects which are ignored and that is sad, but that there is ignorance towards history and "unconditional believe to the idea of progress" is so completely wrong. There are huge groups especially in Western societies which heavily doubt progress. I wish they would acknowledge more some recent achievements. And there are lots of clubs in Europe which try to keep history alive by replays, building and maintaining memorials, collecting and presenting letters, books and every day goods of specific periods in history and encourage young people to face it. There was also such thing in Russia, but forbidden and destroyed by current gouvernment which wants nobody to cover up their lies.
@@florianmeier3186 Nonsense. The Western education system is dedicated to falsifying history, pushing a "6 million" narrative, while skimming over their allied atrocities. That's actually the only time they promote their own as good guys, the rest of the time is dedicated to wh1te guilt and promoting blak victimhood.
Whether there are private clubs dedicated to preserving historical accuracy is kind of irrelevant if the bulk of the population is still just as indoctrinated as the average Russian. The average westerner might as well believe that Inglourious basterds was a documentary
@@dwillbecancelledsoon4086 You can make strange assumptions about our educational system even that it is more or less the same in the whole "West", but by that it does not become true. In my case even at the same school the teaching was significantly different between several teachers and about black victimhood nobody ever talked even what you call a "6 million narrative", which I think is rather inappropriate for what happened in Schoah and also non Jewish Eastern Europe, was less present as you might think. The education was more focused on context and people than numbers. Further you should not forget that my generation was surrounded by people who witnessed that time and therefore brought another perspective. But it is poor, to excuse current criminal acts with the past or the education . And inglorious bastards plays a rather negligible role in our understanding of it. It was rather recent that I recognized that comedy.
You never read The Gulag Archipel by Solzjenitsyn? And now you dedicate your reportages to Russian 'filtration camps'. It's happening right in front of you. Don't miss this historical challenge.
Speak for yourself.
Youre a fool.
Wow, Eli, beautifully done! Such an important video, especially since so many younger people in the West are completely ignorant of the history of Communism! Hopefully, many will see this! Peace from USA💕
Thank you for a very well presented video tour. I really appreciated your objectivity. As a Westerner, I've wondered my whole life, what these camps were like. I didn't know that they've all been erased, except for the camp you visited. This is a valuable piece of documentary video. Sincere thanks. I must read Gulag Archipelago myself now! :)
They still have a questionable prison system.
Thanks for your video. I really appreciate it It is not easy to talk about such a difficult subject.
Thank you for this video. These kind of videos is needed from time to time,,,to never forget.
Take care.
Greetings from northern Sweden.
Having grown up during the cold war in the UK I find the history of the former Soviet Union and Russia absolutely fascinating Fantastic video Love your work
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 😊
You are a very wise young woman. Love your videos. Am learning so much. Sue from America ❤️
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
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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.
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
Thank you for posting these things. Peace and greetings from New Zealand ❤🇳🇿
Good job. Thank you. Historical education is so important for reducing the chances of a repeat.
Thank you so much for giving us a picture of what life in a GULAG was like. I have read Slavomir Rawicz’s account of escaping Camp 303 near Yakutsk in The Long Walk, but your video really brings to life the feeling of being in a GULAG. I am glad Russia no longer lives under communism and people like you can talk openly about the past and help us learn from it.
Just be aware of something. This video talks about the repressive measures taken by a leadership during a certain time. The existence of gulags is not an argument against communism, or one-party rule. According to Russia bashers in the corporate media, Russians are still living in the same conditions as it is implied that Putin is a "dictator", and anyone who opposes his ends up "poisoned" and all else. Worth also noting is that in Russia's most previous elections, the Communist Party (which is pro-Soviet) has picked up the second largest number of votes, and as a party it ranks either third or fourth largest with regards membership numbers. That party has sibling parties in all former Soviet states even if some are outlawed and compelled to operate below the radar. So the wider picture remains very intricate.