Gulag Uprisings - Norilsk, Vorkuta, Kengir Rebellions in the USSR
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- Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the Gulag uprisings of 1954-1955 in Norilsk, Vorkuta, and Kengir. The political prisoners, who were expecting their situation to be improved in the aftermath of Stalin's death, didn't get what they hoped for, so they went on a strike and made demands, which led to a bloodbath.
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among those killed was viktor reznov, soviet war hero who lead the attack on the reichstag in 1945
Cod🖤🖤
Ya beat me to it! 😆 and Reznov didn't die! He was by my side for so many more adventures...👀 wasn't he?
Mason! You are free, I am not.
"DIMITRI! Once again, you cheat death!"
"Gratitude is an illness that affects dogs" (J. Stalin)
anecdote : three inmates meet inside gulag . The first one says : i am here for sabotage - i came to work 5 minutes late . The second one says : i am here for espionage - i came to work 5 minutes too early . The third one : i came to work on time ... and they arrested me for posession of western-made watch .
Good one
@Jebus Hypocristos That's gonna be a yikes from me dog.
Just calling all the prisoners "fascists" doesn't make it so. The Soviets at this time locked up pretty much anyone they felt like. This included their own captured soldiers, (many of which became inmates of nazi concentration camps) with their only "crime" being actual victims of nazism.
Good one, sounds like like a Reagan joke Lol
Three inmates meet inside a gulag.
The first one says: “I’m here for supporting comrade Kuznetsov.”
The second one replies: “That can’t be right: I’m here for opposing comrade Kuznetsov!”
The third one exclaims: “I’m comrade Kuznetsov!”
Dante passed in 1320.. but he somehow keeps writing his comedy of the Inferno ..keep loving goodness
Step one: Secure the keys!
Step two: Ascend from darkness!
Step three: Rain fire!
Step four: Unleash the horde!
Step five: Skewer the winged beast!
Step six: Wield a fist of iron!
Step seven: Raise Hell!
Step eight: Freedom!
FREEDOM FOR YOU MASON, NOT FOR ME
REZNOOOOOVVVV!!
Dragovich, Kravchenko, Steiner. All must die.
oh dear, the classics
Of course someone would do that!
Haha!
I'll be honest with you guys, Black Ops is one of the reasons that I got into reading about Cold War
Step 8 reznov Freedome
For you mason for you not for me
"Step 8 Reznov, Freedom!"
"For you Mason, not for me"
The Feels...
"Reznov!!!"
When cod had balls and was cool
commies nowadays trying to rush communism hahaha they will fail
9 years ago I managed to communicate with a Ukrainian who spent 19 years in the Gulag and was a participant in the Norilsk uprising. He was a very worthy and wise man. He died in 2014
He was probably UPA affiliated, I imagine he hated his captors especially after holodomor
If he was into the GULAG from before the war he wasn't from the UPA I assume... A random victim of NKVD "quota" arrests during the Great Terror, I assume?
@@stefanodadamo6809 He was arrested for contact with the UPA and anti-Soviet agitation in 1948 and was imprisoned until 1956. The second arrest took place in 1967.
He was probably a nazi sympath.
@@folkishappalachian6827 guys holodomer isnt fucking real. It was nazi peddled propaganda agains the soviets. It was documented well as a natural famine while at the same time had kulaks burining, hoarding livestock and grain. Russia was also affected greatly by it so no, it wanst some man-made genocide
My grand-grandfather was unable to fight the war so he was ordered to serve in local NKVD in northern Kazakhstan. He remembers when he had to go to a former soldier and prisoner of war just to tell him he has to be punished for being captured.
Stalin's rule was ultra paranoid to the point where he couldn't trust his own nation's POWs. I'm sure this alone made the Gulag populations massive.
I'm sure your grandfather didn't tell you the whole truth.
@@robinhood4911 ??? Another commie troll refusing to hear the truth about their toxic ideology.
@@robinhood4911 Why are you so sure?
@@robinhood4911 commie lunatic.
How long you are in for?
15 years.
What did you do?
Nothing.
Don't lie, nothing only gets you 5 years.
Petri was sentenced to 5 years
he was extended to 15 on his 10th year
After 30 years he was released because someone made a mistake and let him out early.
There were only 3 possible sentences for the political. Total innocence gave you 10 years, some sort of circumstantial evidence gave you 25 years. If you were actually believed to be anti-Soviet, or with connections abroad, you usually got the 3rd option, capital sentence.
@@u.v.s.5583 That's not correct at all. It wasn't as uniform across the board. Sometimes sentences were given out at random, either 5 or 10 years depending on what letter your surname began with
@@AK-74K any proofs?
How long you are in for?
15 years.
What did you do?
Didnt take Vaccine.
We Live in Hell.
@@hia5235 more like
How long do you have to wait to enter the mcdonalds?
3 years.
What did you do?
Didn't take Vaccine
We Live in one of the most Fortunate Centuries of All Time.
Comments:
10% Stories
90% Cod references
I havent seen a single cod reference
@@AveragePootis Step 1: Secure the keys.
@@StrickerRei-Chn fair enough
I like it both
@@AveragePootis i saw someone mention salmon, but no cod
Mikhail Bakunin once wrote:
"If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself"
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@@Wanes3110 Police? yes sir, I have discovered a dirty red here, over me.
@@mariano98ify Police from the word policemen, then there was no police, but there was a militia and these are different things
Ah yes, the anarchist Bakunin. All revolutionaries who dare take power out of the hands of the bourgeoisie are doomed. History has ended, everyone! Give up! Very useful.
Every anarchist should brush up on the history of the betrayals and massacres committed by the Communists upon the Anarchists. It's amazing how many foolish people cling to the delusion of an anarcho-red alliance.
Not just during the Stalin regime but the during the USSR regime. Although he kept his distance from the gulags, Lenin was aware and encouraged the birth of the gulags.
"Brave Comrades of Vorkuta. The time has come to rise against our oppressors!
Today we show them the hearts of true Russians!
We have given all our blood for the motherland, we have answered her calls without question.
We gave her our youth, our hearts, our very souls for her protection...
As brothers, we fought side by side against the German fascist
We crawled through dirt and blood and sand to achieve our glorious victory!
Not for medals or glory, but for what was right.
We fought for Revenge...and when Berlin fell, how did our leaders repay us?!
We returned not to the rapturous welcome.. but to suspicion and persecution!
In the eyes of our leaders we were already tainted by the capitalist West.
Torn from the arms of our loved ones, we found ourselves here...this place..this, this terrible place.
We have been languished, with no hope for release, no hope for justice.
We have toiled in the mines until the flesh peeled from our bones...
We have been starved, we have been beaten, but we will not be broken!
Today! We will send a message to our corrupt and arrogant leaders.
Today my Comrades! Vorkuta burns!
the gulags existed already during the tsar
The soviet union wasnt a regime unlike the capitalist countries. Gulags were useful and necessary for traitors and fascists
@@luke.4317 True
How many times do we have to tell you Mason… Reznov died in Vorkuta!
"No! He was with me the whole time!"
@@Menaceblue3 No, Mason
REZNOV!
MASON!
EVERY JOURNEY BEGINS WITH A SINGLE STEP. THIS, IS STEP ONE!
SECURE THE KEYS!
NOW, WE TAKE VORKUTA!!!
URAAAA!!!!!!
We've forgot the machorkas!
A lot of COD comments but not enough acknowledging the bravery and humanity in the face of cowardice and inhumanity. The story of the inmates ensuring the basic amenities of the camp kept running while they were besieged, even the vast majority (or honestly all) of their demands being about collective wellbeing and improvement of circumstances to the point of asking for the release of political prisoners, women, the old and sick; there's something I really admire about that.
Indeed! The references to a game trivialize the real human drama of nearly powerless people to improve their conditions in the face of ruthless officials with almost unlimited power. Real people *died* in the course of those efforts. They didn't get to restart their game with their lives restored at some later time.
"Brave Comrades of Vorkuta. The time has come to rise against our oppressors!
Today we show them the hearts of true Russians!
We have given all our blood for the motherland, we have answered her calls without question.
We gave her our youth, our hearts, our very souls for her protection...
As brothers, we fought side by side against the German fascist
We crawled through dirt and blood and sand to achieve our glorious victory!
Not for medals or glory, but for what was right.
We fought for Revenge...and when Berlin fell, how did our leaders repay us?!
We returned not to the rapturous welcome.. but to suspicion and persecution!
In the eyes of our leaders we were already tainted by the capitalist West.
Torn from the arms of our loved ones, we found ourselves here...this place..this, this terrible place.
We have been languished, with no hope for release, no hope for justice.
We have toiled in the mines until the flesh peeled from our bones...
We have been starved, we have been beaten, but we will not be broken!
Today! We will send a message to our corrupt and arrogant leaders.
Today my Comrades! Vorkuta burns!"
I mean c'mon guys, even Simple History made a COD reference and they talked a lot about the Gulags
These guys were some tough bastards. I remember reading a story where one escaped and crossed the Himalayas with no gear. The only thing that explains it being a fierce will to live and prosper.
@@accent1666 touche, that sums it up well.
@@scottdodge6979 indeed, i appreciate the thought
have you ever played/watched COD BO1 campaign?
Brave comrades of Vorkuta, the time has come to rise against our oppressors! Today we show the hearts of true Russians! We have all given our blood for the motherland. We have answered her calls without question. We gave our youth, our hearts, our very souls for her protection ... as brothers, we fought side by side against the German fascists. We crawled trough dirt and blood and sand to achieve our glorious victory ... Not for medals, or glory, but for what was right. We fought for revenge ... And when Berlin fell, how did our leaders repay us? We returned not to rapturous welcome ... but to suspicion and persecution. In the eyes of our leaders we were already tainted by the capitalist West. Torn from the arms of our loved ones, we found ourselves here... this place... this, this terrible place. Here we have languished, with no hope for release... No hope for justice. We have toiled in Dragovich's mines until the flesh peeled from our bones... We have watched our comrades succumb to sickness and disease... We have been starved. We have been beaten. But we will not be broken! Today, we will send a message to our corrupt and arrogant leaders. Today, my comrades... Vorkuta... BURNS!!!
The soviets should have just shot the whole gulag uprisings down to the end
URAAHH
6:06 the prisoner was beaten for the halt of production was Alex Mason, being beaten up by Renzov.
"You hit like a child!"
Hope to hear about Alex Mason's uprising at vorkuta
You realise that never happend right?? That was a video game and wasnt real
@@SRW_ i know it was a joke.
@@nileshkumaraswamy2711
Oh jokes! I get jokes
@@SRW_ 😆😆😆
@@SRW_ *we
Step 1: Secure the keys!!
@Lord Gaylord Ondor STEP 3
Step 4?
Step 4: Unleash the Horde!
Step 5?!
Step 6
A family friend, a Hungarian, fought against the USSR in WW2, and had to escape from a gulag to survive. He told me many stories, but I would love to learn more about non Russian foreigners who were incarcerated in the gulags. How did they get there, etc.? Thank you! It's an important but severely underreported part of history.
Solzhenitsyn mentions some foreigners in the camps in The Gulag Archipelago. I believe Robert Conquest also mentions some of their stories in various of his books.
@@hughmungus1767 thank you! I'm halfway through TGA, haven't read it since I was 11 so I'm brushing up on it. Looking forward to getting to that part!
There were many Americans in vorkuta...from the Korean war , spyflight shootdowns and some say Vietnam pow also...
CZcams "pow betrayed" " missing presumed killed" " we can keep you forever" and "amongst the missing" great docos on the topic
@@joek600 Democratic countries such as Finland also fought the USSR along with the Germans.
*"In Vorkuta we are all brothers"*
@Jebus Hypocristos tankie spotted.
@Jebus Hypocristos or maybe an SVR troll. Gitmo isn’t even on the same level it ain’t the same ball park hell its not even the same sport.
"Reznov your men must this is suicide!"
"Victory cannot be achieved without sacrafice Mason!"
"We Russians known this better than anyone"
"Brave Comrades of Vorkuta. The time has come to rise against our oppressors!
Today we show them the hearts of true Russians!
We have given all our blood for the motherland, we have answered her calls without question.
We gave her our youth, our hearts, our very souls for her protection...
As brothers, we fought side by side against the German fascist
We crawled through dirt and blood and sand to achieve our glorious victory!
Not for medals or glory, but for what was right.
We fought for Revenge...and when Berlin fell, how did our leaders repay us?!
We returned not to the rapturous welcome.. but to suspicion and persecution!
In the eyes of our leaders we were already tainted by the capitalist West.
Torn from the arms of our loved ones, we found ourselves here...this place..this, this terrible place.
We have been languished, with no hope for release, no hope for justice.
We have toiled in the mines until the flesh peeled from our bones...
We have been starved, we have been beaten, but we will not be broken!
Today! We will send a message to our corrupt and arrogant leaders.
Today my Comrades! Vorkuta burns!"
5:33
Workers before Stalin’s regime: “We have nothing to lose but our chains!”
Workers after Stalin’s regime: “We have nothing to lose but our chains!”
The Vorkuta uprising was mentioned in the book "I was a Prisoner in Soviet Russia", written by an American being held there, John Nobel.
Was that the boxer?
@@priest0701, no. His family owned a camera factory in Dresden, and were under house arrest during WWII. This camera factory may have been the reason he and his father were arrested by Soviet authorities. He was held at Buchenwald; his access to records there has been speculated as the reason he was sent to the Gulag, where the Soviets denied his existence. He was released after another inmate wrote a letter to one of Noble's relatives, speaking of his "noble nephew". This forced the Soviets to acknowledge his existence, and he was released with two other Americans.
@@et76039 hmm wow thanks for the info
Perhaps the inspiration for Alex Mason being locked up there
did he describe how every plan begins with a single step?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn recounted a tragic story in Gulag Archipelago: at the height of the Great Purge a semi-literate Russian man was caught writing his name on newspaper he'd collected. He had developed this habit as a means of boosting his self esteem. But because he couldn't read the newspapers very well, he didn't realize he had written his name over articles about Joseph Stalin. The NKVD discovered this "defacing" by rummaging through his trash, and he was arrested, convicted and executed for his crimes against the Leader of the USSR.
I remember reading that in that book. I absolutely love his writing style. He puts you right there in the events mentally.
Solzhi is a literal nazi
I be expecting some Black ops 1 reference when I saw vorkuta. Let's wait and see. Remember 8 step to freedom. URA
URAAAAAAA!
Wow imagine fighting for the ussr getting captured and when you think you’re getting liberated they send you to a gulag lol
Stalin was extremely paranoid and believed they surrendered in order to defect and fight against him
They only imprisoned fascists
given the number of people involved, I'm surprised that the death toll was so low.
Maybe the security services saw the writing on the wall, Kruschov's upcoming reforms, and decided to not kill everyone indiscriminately as they would have done under Stalin or Lenin.
there is no need for unnecessary violence to restore order
One simply cannot deny that things were very much more civilized under Khruschev than they had been under Stalin and Beriya.
Well, the objective of the guards and the government wasn't to kill the inmates (they were there to be slave labor and be punished by it), but scare them back into compliance and show them that gunning down the disenters was very much on the table. This would cow most inmates. So likely most deaths occurred during the initial strike suppression plus individual cases of cruelty of guards on their own will or targeted displays of cruelty, from administration, to show what will happen to those that dissent.
@@Blazo_Djurovic Read Victor Herman (Coming out of ice). That will set Your facts on how much the working force of the slaves was cared for straight.
@@u.v.s.5583 Oh, they didn't really care much if workers died from the punishment. It's not far from truth that they'd basically decide that they needed some mine in some arse end of nowhere, just piled couple thousand inmates into box cars and offloaded them there and had them build the mine from start. Of help from the government they might get tools, but much more plentiful was beatings.
But still, the main purpose of GULAG system apart from being a boogeyman, was to extract resources with free labour from shithole places. Which in theory should have been cheaper than getting proper workers there. A theory that in the end was not true.
The Cold War, can you please make a video on Thailand during the Cold War, especially the numerous military coups and governments that have taken place in Thailand throughout the Cold War. Thank you very much.
You know which other country also got numerous coups and military governments?
Bolivia
I'm am Russian but I barely heard of any of that. Thank you for sharing!
@A Velsen It's not quite as simple as that. Books about Gulags are widely sold in the book shops in Russia. All the true information is available, just not on state controlled TV channels and the press
@A Velsen You have no idea what you are talking about. There is plenty of historical literature you can buy in the bookshop about the Gulags, the crimes of the Soviet regime etc. Where do you live to even debate this?
@A Velsen And this has what to do with my statement on historically accurate information still available to Russians? That's right - nothing. I hate the Putin regime, but I am Russian and I understand the country and the nuances and don't make sweeping all encompassing statements based on a few articles that I read.
@A Velsen Under Putin, the books of Solzhenitsin and and the books of Shalamov are mandatory for reading at school
@@zsg87 Shamalov? Never hear of this name. What's the full name and titles of books you would recommend. I can't read Russian so they must have English translation.
STEP ONE - SECURE THE KEYS
STEP TWO - ASCEND FROM DARKNESS
STEP THREE - RAIN FIRE
STEP FOUR - RELEASE THE HORDE
STEP FIVE - SKEWER THE WINGED BEAST
STEP SIX - WIELD A FIST OF IRON
STEP SEVEN - RAISE HELL
STEP EIGHT - FREEDOM
Now you must do an episode about the Bitch Wars. I really want to understand the birth of the Russian Mafia.
Initially they were the old ruling class who were sent to gulags and eventually became kapos... If you speak French check out the channel Gouvhd it's by far one of the best history channels on CZcams and only deals on Russia (he's Russian and french )
I've never heard of this "Bitch Wars". Russian Mafia war?
@@ermining1 So the old upper class sent to the gulags became kapos? They became the "nobility" in prison?
Remember Reznov! You will have your revenge!
Solzhenitsyn said that it was common for someone sentenced to 25 years to say wryly that they were in the camp 'because I am a spy' and would then go on to explain what they actually did e.g. 'I was friendly with someone married to a foreigner' etc. Anyway, one day he asked a guy who had been sentenced to a mere 10 years why he was there and he said 'for spying' when he enquired about the real reason, to his astonishment, the guy said that he was actually a spy - and he only got ten years!
11:42 "Горлаг" (gorlag) doesn't mean 'montain camp" but 'mining camp'. While a literal translation of "горная промышленность" (gornaya promyshlennost) could be 'mountain industry', it actually means 'mining industry'.
"Горлаг"- Горный Лагерь
@@emilturangi7145 Yes. And it means "mining camp", not "mountain camp" as at 11:42.
Это не "лагерь в горах" а "горнопромышленный лагерь".
I've been waiting for this kind if video for years! I can't wait to finish watching it. Lol
Never let these people be forgotten. People confused and desperate for freedom are imprisoned, killed, beaten, abused, and enslaved. Never let these people be forgotten.
The Soviet Union: A workers paradise for everyone except for-well, the workers.
Thanks for the great work!!
Very informative video, I was hoping this would include the infamous "b_tch wars" within the camp system, but maybe a future video. Wasn't the camps structured to pit different ethnic groups and class groups against each other? I can think of an example in the U.S. when terrible conditions and prison officials created a climate of hatred and revenge at the New Mexico State prison uprising the inmates killed those inmates deemed "traitors" or "snitches". Great video, David.
"There are no Soviet prisoners of war, only traitors."
they weren’t traitors they were innocently convicted but clearly your a crazy communist so you know or just a troll
@@nataliekennedy4646 I think he's quoting someone else.
@@maarten1115 Order No. 270 " Приказываю:
1. Командиров и политработников, во время боя срывающих с себя знаки различия и дезертирующих в тыл или сдающихся в плен врагу, считать злостными дезертирами, семьи которых подлежат аресту как семьи нарушивших присягу и предавших свою Родину дезертиров.
Обязать всех вышестоящих командиров и комиссаров расстреливать на месте подобных дезертиров из начсостава.
2. Попавшим в окружение врага частям и подразделениям самоотверженно сражаться до последней возможности, беречь материальную часть, как зеницу ока, пробиваться к своим по тылам вражеских войск, нанося поражение фашистским собакам.
Обязать каждого военнослужащего, независимо от его служебного положения, потребовать от вышестоящего начальника, если часть его находится в окружении, драться до последней возможности, чтобы пробиться к своим, и если такой начальник или часть красноармейцев вместо организации отпора врагу предпочтут сдаться в плен, - уничтожать их всеми средствами, как наземными, так и воздушными, а семьи сдавшихся в плен красноармейцев лишать государственного пособия и помощи.
3. Обязать командиров и комиссаров дивизий немедля смещать с постов командиров батальонов и полков, прячущихся в щелях во время боя и боящихся руководить ходом боя на поле сражения, снижать их по должности как самозванцев, переводить в рядовые, а при необходимости расстреливать их на месте, выдвигая на их место смелых и мужественных людей из младшего начсостава или из рядов отличившихся красноармейцев.
Приказ прочесть во всех ротах, эскадронах, батареях, эскадрильях, командах и штабах. "
"Brave Comrades of Vorkuta. The time has come to rise against our oppressors!
Today we show them the hearts of true Russians!
We have given all our blood for the motherland, we have answered her calls without question.
We gave her our youth, our hearts, our very souls for her protection...
As brothers, we fought side by side against the German fascist
We crawled through dirt and blood and sand to achieve our glorious victory!
Not for medals or glory, but for what was right.
We fought for Revenge...and when Berlin fell, how did our leaders repay us?!
We returned not to the rapturous welcome.. but to suspicion and persecution!
In the eyes of our leaders we were already tainted by the capitalist West.
Torn from the arms of our loved ones, we found ourselves here...this place..this, this terrible place.
We have been languished, with no hope for release, no hope for justice.
We have toiled in the mines until the flesh peeled from our bones...
We have been starved, we have been beaten, but we will not be broken!
Today! We will send a message to our corrupt and arrogant leaders.
Today my Comrades! Vorkuta burns!"
Fake quote
Love your videos - wish you showed the footage without the old tv though. keep it up!thx!
"People found themselves still targeted however, particularly the intelligencia."
Never ceases to amaze me how in the modern day West we have so many academics that are socialist/marxist/communist, despite knowing the history of the Soviet Union and how those systems always turn out. It's like the turkey's advocating for thanksgiving.
kind of like left-wing jews who defend muslims in America.
The academia live in a bubble of delusions. Their world is gated communities, theories, conjectures and the soft life that comes with never dealing with repercussions of their follies. People who have real world experience know the commies in academia are fools and a fountain of toxicity flowing through our nations veins.
@@olliefoxx7165
And ivory towers.
Fantastic video
Nicely informative video. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
25:38 "Please, make sure to you are subscribed to our channel and have severely repressed the bell button." He's already like: "This gonna get demonetized anyway, so I might just spice things up". Love it. =D
What a wonderful channel
Norilsk doesn't contains prisoners anymore... However, they say it's one of the most depressing towns in the world. Environmental issues are striking and the employer of the city is, in fact, the company who happens to own the nickel plant. Ppl who went therre told me it looks & functions just like one of the companys towns from the beginning of the 20th century.
These are some harrowing stories. I just recently watched Andor, and these stories make me think of the prison escape episodes. Thank you for this video on the real life stories of such things.
God be with you out there friends. ✝️
star wars fans when
Really interesting, thanks!
Love this Chanel thank you for your Work and understanding of the subject.
I worked as an electrical Engineer at Norilsk operations in Australia.
Nickel in Russia And Uranium was bringt used for First atomic weapons.
Interesting story.
Thanks for Sharing.
Great vlog as always! Can you do an episode of when the Soviet union deployed 2000 tanks along the border to Norway in 1968.
Step One...
Secure the keys
Step 2: ASCEND FROM DARKNESS!!!
edit: unknown in the West Gulag slave Uprisings - Norilsk, Vorkuta, Kengir Rebellions in the USSR
Thanks
One important fact to bear in mind as a reason for the above-mentioned appraisals: Ukrainian (OUN-UPA) and Baltic (Forest brothers) nationalists were quite numerous (50-300k of soldiers) and continued fighting against the Soviet army and NKVD after the fall of Germany until 1953-56 (!). As they were soldiers and were ready to die in combat, they had no illusions about amnesty and understood there was nothing to lose. That's why they were able to raise, as opposed to millions of other political prisoners captured and annihilated earlier.
A. Solzhenitsyn explains it clearly in his Nobel-winning GULAG Archipelago book: well-educated people, as well as peasants, still had hope to be released. Thus, had something to lose.
Those were nazi collaborators. And so was Solzhi
You should cover the battle is Blaire Mountain in it's entirety.
I think you're on the wrong channel. Blair Mountain was 25 years before the start of the cold war, which is the time period covered by this channel.
I wish these episodes would stop using unrelated footage purporting to be related to the topic. Clearly German soldiers are seen herding soviet pows on a number of occasions in this episode. Why not just show pictures of a football game its about as relevant.
I mean, it's similar because it's a little bit relatable
Yes it's not exactly about what the video is talking about
But still, it's better than using another even more irrelevant footage that doesn't make sense, like a sports game that you said
They're soviet prisoners either way. Anyone paying attention realizes that the footage isn't exact.
My job gives me the opportunity to listen to whatever I want while I work, so I recently decided to give a listen to Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago”. Almost everything recounted in the book ranged from ‘awful’ to ‘horrifying’, especially to someone born in Kansas in 1992. But there were a few accounts that gave me firsthand experience of what it feels like to be ‘sick with rage’. The account of the Vorkuta revolt, and the subsequent crackdown, was one of them. Easily one of the most harrowing stories I’ve read.
I grew up thinking in the simplistic left wing=good/right wing=bad frame of mind. It’s only been over the past decade or so that I’ve started to realize that neither of them are inherently “good”. I’m certain there are plenty of good people on both sides. But there are also closet tyrants lurking in both wings of modern politics, and forgetting this fact risks letting another monster get into power.
Both parties are one in the same, it's an illusion. You only thought the Left was "good" because they are master manipulators and they target the youth
@@IIISWILIII not even a question of parties, the parties in the US are not that ideologically distinct, only their rhetoric is
The left are not master manipulators any more than the right is, because most people are not ideologically bound to either the hard right or left. They are both a significant minority. Most people are bound to either of those two parties in the US, which are both liberal centrist parties, one more center left and one more center right. That’s the real dirty secret partisans of both sides won’t tell you.
To say that the “left are master manipulators” reminds me of another totalitarian states propaganda and who they blamed for all of their society’s problems
Could you do an episode on the life of women in the Soviet Union versus the US during the Cold War? Love the channel, keep up the good work 😀❤️
That would be an interesting comparison.
But Soviet apologists swear that these weren’t real, especially tankies…
Are these "tankies" in the room with us right now?
Interesting video! It may have been addressed in the video and I missed it, but did news travel from one gulag to the other regarding the uprisings in the other, considering their close proximity in time, despite their geographic distance? Did one inspire the other?
News traveled through prisoner transfers.
@@kalle911 Makes sense...thanks!
@@KSvader Actually so did rebellious prisoners. I think Solzhenitsyn wrote about it. I recommend reading The Gulag Archipelago.
In Vorkuta uprising Romanian prisoners of war had an important role, there were some officers who organized a strike
I need to rewatch to absorb the whole thing. Woah.
After watching Andor and the Narkina 5 arc, I’m wondering if Gilroy based a lot of the prisons off the gulag and the uprisings.
one way out!
The GULag existed far beyond Stalin. It was never closed. They just changed the name
Can you give sources in the description please?
What music do you use in the background if I may ask?
An uprising in Vorkuta? I saw that before
I clicked on this video and expected Reznov jokes, I was not disappointed.
Solzhenitsyn wrote that once the inmates found out who the snitches were they would slit their throats at night. He went on to say that the result of this was in theses camps there was greater freedom then those who lived in the USSR.
Solzhenitsyn is a liar and an idiot anyways. He spreads false information without any proof.
@@user-bx7vu5cs8p His life, the lives of all the others destroyed by the Gulags is his proof. It would be an idiotic position to say that Solzhenitsyn was an idiot.
good stuff
People out here giving Reznov quotes while i'm remembering my great grandfather's stories while being in Vorkuta. A good combination to think about him like that lol.
Maybe this speech will resonate to you the the most?
"Brave Comrades of Vorkuta. The time has come to rise against our oppressors!
Today we show them the hearts of true Russians!
We have given all our blood for the motherland, we have answered her calls without question.
We gave her our youth, our hearts, our very souls for her protection...
As brothers, we fought side by side against the German fascist
We crawled through dirt and blood and sand to achieve our glorious victory!
Not for medals or glory, but for what was right.
We fought for Revenge...and when Berlin fell, how did our leaders repay us?!
We returned not to the rapturous welcome.. but to suspicion and persecution!
In the eyes of our leaders we were already tainted by the capitalist West.
Torn from the arms of our loved ones, we found ourselves here...this place..this, this terrible place.
We have been languished, with no hope for release, no hope for justice.
We have toiled in the mines until the flesh peeled from our bones...
We have been starved, we have been beaten, but we will not be broken!
Today! We will send a message to our corrupt and arrogant leaders.
Today my Comrades! Vorkuta burns!
@@accent1666 I wouldn’t say so… my great grandfather was a baltic (lithuanian) German collaborator. So I wouldn’t say he was all for the motherland…
@@airo8517 still, maybe not for your case particularly
But probably for a lot of Russians they felt that way, since paranoid Stalin really didn't trust the returning Red Army after the war (specially the POWs)
@@airo8517 Do you have recordings of his talks about his experiences? Did anyone write them down? History must be preserved for the youth and the future.
@@olliefoxx7165 recording? No. But I did write down absolutely everything my grandfather talked about. He also talked about other relatives and how they got taken to siberia. Seems a lot of people in my family had it rough. But I have all of their stories written down like when they were taken, for what, what timeline and such.
A relative of mine escaped Lithuania or else he would've ended up at one of these....
And why is that? Legit, I'm curious to know why. Was he an intellectual? A prisonner of war? A Lithuanian nationalist?
@@Game_Hero Lithuanian soldier in the wechmart
@@brettshea8623 He was forcibly enrolled?
@@Game_Hero I believe so mate ....It was him and his dad...they weren't in Stalingrad, bit tried to break in with manstein Xmas 42...
This video provides details on events that are not necessarily well informed.
Thank you for your time, work and share 👍
Can I put it in a link in a voluntary work on the history of the revolutions in France and in the world since 1789?
Cette vidéo apporte des détails sur des événements pas forcément bien renseignés.
Merci pour votre temps, votre travail et le partage👍
Puis-je la mettre en lien dans un travail bénévole sur l'histoire des révolutions en France et dans le monde depuis 1789? Merci
Kola peninsula incorrectly identified on the map. Footage of WWII shown instead of footage of actual uprising.
I didn't think that those in gulags we actually paid. I always assumed that inmates were slaves.
My great-gramps was an engineer in GULag, supervising the work in the Igarka forests. He was working at NarKomLes - People's Commissariat for Forstry, which just so happened to be situated at the Lubyanka/Dzerzhinsky square, next door to the NKVD. So, a goodwill once told him: "Petya, you're going to Siberia anyway, but you can still decide in what status." So my great-gramps "volunteered" to go to Igarka, while my great-grandma was already pregnant with my granddad. He then went all the way from Siberia when the gramps was born, and then back.
His brother-in-law, grand-grannny's sister's husband, wasn't that lucky. He managed to survive the camps, but came back with an open from of tuberculosis. In the nineties, as the archives became accessible, his grandson looked up for the reason for him to be sent there. The guilt consisted of the single line: "A Pole pretending to be a Belorussian". Nuff said.
That's dark.
Very cool
Maria Joffe the widow of Adolph Joffe wrote a book about her time in the gulags well worth a read its called "One Long Night: A Tale of Truth"
Do the gulags still exist in any form in 2021?
I think one of the former republics still has a KGB does it have a gulag system?
Australia is building "quarantine" camps for those who don't want vaccines forced into their bodies. That's how gulags started, as "quarantine camps" for the politically infected that refused the vaccine of communism.
US citizens must insist our governments uphold our Constitution and Bill of Rights as it was written.
Exactly or this will happen in America.
No one, literally no one: Brian: uS cITIzeNs MUsT INsIsT oUR gOVTNmeNT....
Here come the trump hogs
this is a nice story, but this just scratches the surface.
you will need to read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to even grasp it.
Would have been so lovely to live in the USSR
Are you planning to team up with indy neidell when his team cover cold war conflicts?
Will there be an episode about the mainland chinese Laogai?
Also murdered there during the uprising of 1953 and who cause for sainthood is ongoing, Fr. Janus Mendriks
Great video. One critique, too much facetime in the beginning. This is not a shot at your appearance, because you're not a ugly dude, but less is definitely more. ✌ Keep up the great work.
Getting arrested in a camp for people that got arrested.... That's a whole new level
Interesting topic that almost everyone is silent about.
In my opinion, adding visual material was a bit clunky. For example, in 10:53 and 17:16 you can see films made by Germans in 1941 during the war, that is over 10 years earlier. Others probably come from movies or propaganda. In my opinion, there are no films of those events and it is a mistake to try to imagine what was there with the present mentality of people living (so far) in free countries. I have the impression that the local prisoners looked much worse than in these films. Much respect to the author, the narrative was very good and it didn't have to have these videos.
With the way things are heading, Should we be taking notes?
Far too little written or shared regarding siberian /gulag revolts or just their existence in general, Applebaum aside, so well done here and best wishes.
Are those German troops around 11:00 in the film?
Very interesting but difficult to watch because of the loud music. Who decided that what is basically an informative lecture needs a musical background? I'm just guessing that it was some idiot from marketing.
What's with the guards in German helmets at around 10:48?
Stock footage. Something tells me that a Soviet news crew wasn't at Vorkuta. Any film footage would be buried in the basement of the FSB headquarters.
I think the footage is unrelated to the gulag uprisings. The soldier at 10:48 appears to be Finish, he is carrying a Suomi sub machine gun or maybe a soviet PPD 40 however the uniform seems Finish and the German style helmets were also worn by the Finns. Furthermore, the guys with their hands up seem to wear soviet uniforms (note the two large breast pockets and the fairly baggy trousers).
My best guess is that this is footage of Finish soldiers taking soviet POWs during either the winter war or the continuation war.
@@soeintyphalt9634 that would make sense.
Every journey begins with a single step THIS IS STEP ONE!!!??
Every journey begins with a single step
sure looks like you used footage of German POW camps in this piece. At around 10-11 minutes in? Either that, or the prison guards were wearing Stahlhelms.
In Vorkuta We Are All Brothers!
~Sgt Victor Reznov~
Ukrainian living in the U.S. with family who went through this. It is tragic to see socialism in the U.S.
Absolute evel...
Interesting