Exposing USSR Labour Camps: Smuggling The Gulag Archipelago Out of Soviet Russia | Full Documentary
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- It was one of the most important books of the twentieth century. An account so shocking few believed it could be true. But the real story of how Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's ‘Gulag Archipelago’ came to be published is just as remarkable as the manuscript itself. Terrified he would be arrested by the KGB, Solzhenitsyn wrote his novel in secret safe houses, regularly changing location.
Each section of the book was hidden in a different place. A network of selected friends, known as the ’invisibles’, then had to smuggle the manuscript to the West in the form of microfilms. Filming in Moscow, Lithuania, Bremen, Stockholm and Paris, ’Secret History: The Gulag Archipelago’ is an unbelievable trip to the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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People need to watch this. The gulags reshaped Russia. I don't understand how a govt can be so cruel to it's people. But we MUST know history so we don't make those same mistakes
We are making the same mistakes...wake up
Maybe because the upper echelons of the bolshevik government was majority made up of an ethnicity that was not ethnically Russian.. ie not Rus nor Slavic? One that considers all outsiders to be worth no more than cattle?
Much like the wheels of government of the USA are now made up of this same ethnicity that only constitutes roughly %2 of the US population. This same ethnicity conducts and projects their world view in the firm direction of the other institutions they own/dominate -- media, publishing, entertainment, education, judiciary, bureaucracy. One that practices strict ingroup preferential selection while vilifying those same natural inclinations in the founding stock members of the country they are parasitizing in and waging war against others from.
@@Ariannaishun Well said and correct.
@@Ariannaishun Yup.
You don’t understand? We stopped believing in God. That’s why.
When I was a freshmen-year college student at Gallaudet University in the college year of 1973-1974, I first heard about Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Laureate writing the best selling paper--"The Gulag Archipelago" by reading the story in Washington Post. Then I brought the best selling paper--"The Gulag Archipelago", I finally read it in my quiet room so here. Before the deadline of term in my English classroom at Gallaudet University, I finished my term in my own words then I gave it to my college professor of English who taught one-year English course for freshmen year college students as my term was graded in strong favor made by my college professor of English literature for freshmen year college students.
Well I acknowledge that Alexander Solzhenitsyn really was the honest, decent and courageous Nobel Laureate in my best recognition in honorary dedication at best. I really like it at best.
I read this book about 40 years ago, in this book there is a word what I never forget. The children of prison guards often play game to escort the prisoner. A few children play as guard and other a lot of children play as prisoner. They were escorted to walk by guard.
Well done. Thank you for the interviews with Solzhenitsyn's invisible allies. Thank you for this deep dive deep into the production of _The Gulag Archipelago_.
I have read and recommend:
Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago
Invisible Allies
The Oak and the Calf
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
August, 1914
The Cancer Ward
The First Circle
Solzhenitsyn, ed.
From Under The Rubble
Thanks for your work and time making this ❤
Dad had me read this in college in 91. Thank you for a great documentary! Goosebumps!
My father was a WWII vet who read it when it first came out, then he made sure I read it. He commented on how WWII vanquished some of the political evil in the world, but left too much in place and enabled to expand. I was 12 and 13 as I worked my way through TGA.
Read his book.
It is a small summary of an inhumane and all powerful government.
A very important reason to appreciate all of our Freedoms as granted by our US Constitution and Bill of Rights
I read all three books. Fantastic!
Shostakovich, a genius composer, lived under Stalin. If you want to understand that time, listen to his music: string quartet number 8, symphony number 5, symphony number 7 (this one depicts the Battle of Leningrad explicitly). Basically all his music. But read about what the pieces of music are depicting first. He lived in fear he would be murdered by stalin, like so many members of his family and artist friends! So Shostakovich had to write in codes. A genius. Listen.
Very excellent and very concise documentary
This is the stile of economics the current prime minister of Canada would try to implement. Based on his own admition that Chinese economic system works better than the one we currently have for the last 175 years in Canada
Man's inhumanity to man Evil the absence of Love 🙏
Stolen magnificent healing Tartarian castles made into torture and death chambers too.
Communism is envy and hate.
I read this book when I was 19, sure that when I got to the last page I would realise it was a kind of story - I had to find out. Realisation dawned and I cried for what seemed like ages. I read ' A Day in the Life Of ....... ' and cried again when I realised it was actually one day, just one day. The horror has never left me but has left me puzzling, for 50 odd years, how could people perpetrate such horror and how people could survive such insane cruelty and retain their sanity. ❤ A.S. et al.
It devastated me too.
During the Cold War, Americans and Europeans also had their own Gulags in which those who fought against economic exclusion and disagreed with capitalist authoritarianism were interned, mistreated and eventually killed. Ianis Varoufakis' father was interned in one of these camps in Greece. My father was politically persecuted for similar reasons by the military dictatorship that the Americans created in Brazil in 1964. There were no good guys governing either Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Russia or the USA, France or Brazil where his book was applauded.
This story itself is worthy of a book
45:15 10 years in prison camps for translating a book.
35 years in gulags, in total.
How can you give any meaning to such a world?
Oh my days! Thank you.She said: " Communism was not put in trial". I hope" The islamic republic" in iran will be put in trial.Not many people in the world know what"in the name of God and Islam" has happened to my people and my country during the last 45 yrs!!
Majority of people in Conservative islamic countries like it that way.
@@francismuiruri9064 Iran is not conservative! Not it's people anyway. Far from that. The only secular people in the middle east are the Iranians.
@@francismuiruri9064absolutely rubbish. Iranians are a dear people. People in the capital and the regime not so. Read a book and please grow up
Today 12-01-2024 Stalin is becoming more favorite inside Russia, everything forgotten and Mr. Putin is restoring the USSR. Terrible!
Rubbish talk.
Your claims re Stalin and Putin's intentions are based on what sources of information?
To what extent can those sources be trusted to stay objective to a fault even if detrimental to their $ or host country? If to a very limited extent, then you *know* they'll have many must-lie situations & subjects. I mean that's just en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda
@@louiekiwinot rubbish
Nothing has changed in russia the same old oppressive cultural is operating just a different regime
Exactly.
Ive been to Russia about a dozen times. People there are very happy with the government and their standard of living. I don't see the scum on the streets like in Europe and US.
Check out Letters From Russia by Astolphe de Custine. He traveled through Russia post French Revolution.
Russia is no Scandinavia freedoms wise but people in the West probably self-edit what they say at work & outside immediate family & the very closest of friends, probably more now than the average Soviets did.
It's true that writers etc in the West get to say more vs the USSR - but that's b/c they're independent whereas the Soviet writers dealt with the State as employer (see prev paragraph). In fact we've the reversal in music where in the USSR the musicians broadly were against the Afghanistan intervention whereas none of the Western pop or rock bands or singers woukd take that risk speaking up against the Iraq & Afghanistan invasions. B/c money & risk.
Fundamentally, people are similar - whenever there's a steep gradient of money or power, some will abuse it, others will bow to it, and very few will speak truth to power against it (not afterwards but when it matters).
Russia loves the whip...
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I read "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denesovich" in high school. I thought it was written by Feyodor Dostayevsky, forgetting that that was much earlier 😳. I was a dumb high school girl. 😳😅😆🤣
You were a smart high school girl. Today’s high school girls should be so informed. But they’re not.
@@JeffMTX
Thank you. 💕
your images are not maching the commendary
It turns out that Putin is a Saint.
Fake propaganda like Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Sometimes I wonder what is true
I wonder how ussr were ,if stalin didnt had the chance to eliminate him .put trotsky in stalins place.
3:52 like the USA now
Most of what Solzhenitsyn's said was made up according to his wife .Its well known he was a CIA asset .Yes people did go to the Gulags during the time of the Soviet Union but compared to the numbers that went there during the reign of the Tsars it was insignificant. Here is a book that you should read if you want to know the truth , " The house of the dead ' Siberian exile under the Tsars " by Daniel Beer
/ Here the propaganda purpose of the youtube video maker is wrong. Here the Nazis were wrong and the Soviet decisions were right, for a sentence to Nazi soldiers who took part in extensive atrocities. Sentence by Soviets: 10 years of hard labor. 10 years of hard labor. Many who committed extensive atrocities were sent to a gulag or two. All Nazi prisoners of war given 10 years sentences for atrocities committed were to be released no later than 1955. This decision was right. Anyone from the Nazi military forces who killed more than 500 civilian villagers or 100 Soviet prisoners of war people were not given life term jail terms and not to be hanged. They were to be given a sentence of 10 years of hard labor. To be released in 1954 or 1955. Here, some were happy about it. Others said the Nazis who participated in massacres of civilian villagers in Belarus and Ukraine and Russia would rather die than work as a hard laborer foe 10 years till 1955. : They were give 10 years of hard labor. As per Stalin's orders all Nazi soldiers who had killed more than 100 civilians or massacred more than 100 Soviet poisoners of war will be given 10 years of hard labor sentence. To understand what happened in gulars for some prisoners of war in who committed atrocities during ww2, one has to understand the American prison system of the US. A Nazi after completing one year of hard year may have 9 years to re released. A serial killer in jail in the USA, America will suddenly confess to fellow convicts that he killed seven more men as a serial killer. Similarly, a Nazi has just completed one year of hard labor out of a 10 year sentence. Such a Nazi in a gulag for har labor work who committed atrocities may suddenly say something to the effect that he massacred 100 more villagers in a village 100 miles from Brest, Belarus. Outcome of this confession: The Nazi who committed is given more hard labor tasks as he had confessed to additional atrocities that he had additionally killed 100 villagers in Belarus. Nothing wrong in that. Soviet guard says to a Nazi prisoner: "Mr. OsterMann, your papers say you killed 250 Soviet prisoners of war. You confessed to a fellow prisoner of killing 100 additional villagers near Brest, Belarus. Today onwards you will begiven even more work to do daily. You will still be released in 1954." Nothing wrong with that. A few Mr. Jones or average Mrs. Jones in the year 1950 living in the western hemisphere if asked may say "All Nazi soldiers who committed excessive atrocities in wars should be released from had labor gulags immediately or be given American citizenship."
@johnsnowkumar359 Honestly, I think the stupidest people on the internet wind up in the youtube comments. So how did Stalin know how many civilians a Nazi had killed? Did he learn it in a two-minute fake show trial? Anyone who was German went to the gulag. Anyone Russian who was in a German POW camp went to the gulag when they were repatriated. Anyone Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, etc., etc., who was in contact with the West wound up in a gulag. Gulags weren't just punishment. They were a primary economic engine of the Soviet Union. Slave labor kept the wheels spinning. Stalin was still throwing people into the gulags during the darkest days of the Nazi invasion. Stalin loved torturing pepole, but this was just Germany making up for invading the USSR.
I fear it is you that/who is the purveyor of wrong headed propaganda,
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer not a Nazi.
Putin is doing to Ukraine what Stalin unjustly wanted to do, but failed.
#Hi Vlad! Bah.... humbug!
Soooo... how many years of hard labor did they get?
The author of this mediocre novel, based on fiction, was a great admirer of Franco and fascism. His literature nobel prize has the same moral value of Henry Kissinger's peace nobel...
Wait until you arrive on the shores of the archipelago
The book is more about human psychology and the human condition, than it is about a refutation of communism or the prison.
@@michaellovullo7363 it’s all of that, hence the “experiment in literary investigation”