The Truth About Stalin's Prison Camps
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- Vera Golobeva spent more than six years in one of Stalin’s Gulag camps. Her crime? “To this day, I still don’t know,” she says. In a new documentary, Golobeva remembers the excruciating details of her imprisonment. When she was arrested, along with her father, mother, and sister, Golobeva was taken to KGB headquarters and tortured. She was eight months pregnant. “I felt as if they were burying me alive,” she says in the film. The worst was yet to come.
Between 1918 and 1987, Soviet Russia operated a vast network of hundreds of prison camps that held up to 10,000 people each. When Stalin launched his infamous purges in 1936, millions of so-called political prisoners were arrested and transported to the Gulag without trial. The first wave of prisoners were military or government officials; later, ordinary citizens-especially intellectuals, doctors, writers, artists, and scientists-were arrested ex nihilo. At the camps, many prisoners were executed or died from overwork and malnutrition. The death rate often hovered around 5 percent, although in years of widespread famine, mortality could be as high as 25 percent. Historians estimate that as part of the Gulag, Soviet authorities imprisoned or executed around 25 million people. Read more: www.theatlanti...
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My heart broke when she wanted to cry I wanted just to hug her
Living under Stalin was a bad time and place to have been alive, especially if you had also lived through WW1, the Russian Revolution, Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19, and WW2. Sometimes I think I've had it too good.
Sometimes I'm thinking that war documentaries with survivors narrating them should be FORCED to be seen by teens of today. They should be thankful and rather accumulate skills than mulling sexual tryst with their favorite individual. Anyway, the rupture is near. Peace.
I'll take "things you'll never hear young people on the left promoting socialism say" for 1000.
I agree with you 100%. I love to watch these horrible things to remember where we came from. I always hear about Hilter, but I didn't know alot about Stalin. Though I'll never forget walking through the Holocaust museum in New York. Haunting.
Fast forward. Read these comments now as cities burn with anarchy. Lootings, killings. Antifa, Black Lives Matter, CHAZ. The same crying college kids who demanded safe spaces from conservative opinions are now the predators & violent perpetrators declaring themselves the moral arbiters. Tormenting the innocent. Forcing ppl onto their knees to beg for forgiveness.... *_for being White._*
@@Pipsterz oh grow up and stop with the opportunistic, melodramatic comparisons
@@Pipsterz it's not about being white is about ending racism you act like whites (the non racist ones) dont check one of their own I bet you silent on that
Her voice is so powerful. I am amazed at how strong she is and how willing she is to tell us about unimaginable tragedy.
Agreed, and I see the same thing with Holocaust survivors. All of these concentration camp survivors are the real warriors, but have so much humanity in them despite being in the worst conditions. The devils that put them there are absolute cowards and traitors to their countries, like Vera said
I dont trust this obvious lie
@@ZeeHilal you cant say that man, its history and you cant change what already happend.
Agreed. We have plenty of stories from Holocaust survivors but not nearly enough from Soviet gulag survivors and I'm sure there are lots as well.
If she was not a very strong person, she would not have survived.
Imagine torturing and killing your own countrymen and believing you’re doing your country a service. Unbelievable.
@ Uh, no. The kulaks were imprisoned by Stalin you moron. it's tough to farm when you're being tortured to death.
Let me guess: you love Bernie?
The Kulaks were successful farmers, the Soviets persecuted and dispossessed them, shipped them off to Siberia. Several famines resulted, with millions of deaths.
Jonathan Menzing was Stalin insane? If so, how did he manage to raise the Soviet Union to the super power status considering the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921 and ww2 that brought so much destruction in the Eastern Soviet Union? How can an insane man build the country up?
Sam808Sch in an ideal world, Stalin is evil. However, he didn’t live in an ideal world and he foresaw the conflict with the West. How do you get your country men to agree with you? Pleading only gets you so far. Brute force has a more convincing power.
Majority of Soviets were uneducated and drunks early 20th century.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Soviet_Union
In other words, just to provide a similar point, IF the Native Americans had their own Stalin, they would have survived to this day. Without Stalin, Soviet Union would be defeated by the NAZIs and Eurasia would be a large German colony.
@@BigVK19 Not absolutely insane like a psychotic but in the sense that he was unreasonable for imprisoning his colleagues when many of them were on his side. I agree that he was intelligent though on industrializing the Soviet Union in only 15 years. I hate how many people compare him to Hitler but not Andrew Jackson who killed off tens of millions of native Americans.
Pretty soon we'll lose people like Vera Golubeva who were victims of and eyewitnesses to the evil things men did to their fellow men. It's imperative that the Gulag prisoners and Holocaust survivors stories be told for generations to come.
Absolutely!
ibur you can‘t compare gulags to nazi concentration camps, one is hell the other is Disneyland. don‘t buy into vilification of germans.
24063457467984263567 ? Which one is Disneyland??
It's imperative that Holodomor survivors stories be told.
@@naturecollision fun fact, both were wrong.
My heart just broke into a thousand pieces... that poor woman. I wish I could hold her and take some of her pain.
@Begin Transformation ok. how bout i put the spoiled youth in the gulags, instead of the older ones
@Begin Transformation what?
She’s naturally tough she doesn’t need your sympathy her soul is radiating with power and you can hear strength beyond description in her voice true legend
wait i dont understand the matches thing
It’s the most disgusting side of humanity I loathe this happened and feel so much for her
It is like she is also giving a voice to the prisoner's that perished in the gulags during Stalin's reign.
Spidey Whiplash amen. People find it difficult to believe just how many perished in the gulags. 😢
And long after Stalin's reign, the description says they were open between 1918 and 1987. Hard to imagine...
@@mmmk1616 Keep in mind that Stalin's Great Purge (1936-38) and his killing stopped with his death in 1953. However, after his death most dissidents who were "counter-revolutionary" were sent into internal exile, often in the communities created by the Gulags...
"Stalin's reign."
Well no.
@@davidhollenshead4892 You are such an uneducated moron - Great Purge was authored by Yezhov, NOT Stalin. Those who orchestrated it, were found guilty and prosecuted in 1939, which is the year it ended! Stalin is great leader, he managed to remove far-left extremists in 1920, he managed to stop civil war, he managed to start industrialization of ussr in just 10 years while being SANCTIONED, he managed to create an army which won Finnish war to move border away from Europe, then win war against 80% of combined far-right Europe, then he was against sanctioned by West who broke all his agreements, he then gave ussr nuclear shield and worlds first space industry! The "killing" in 1920-1939 was stopped exactly by Stalin and not from Stalin!
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago should be required reading in all High Schools
@Lord Of Vengeance what??
Oh my god... Solzhenitsin was a liar and a traitor. His books are crap.
Damn right. My teenagers have read it and are spreading the word among their peers.
@@angkarbasil
You probably would have supported the Nazis too if you had lived under Stalin. There were a lot of people in that time who supported Hitler for no other reason than that they wanted someone to stand up to Stalin. It's the reason Finland joined Hitler's side during the war with the Soviets during WWII.
Just because the Nazis were evil doesn't prove that the Soviets weren't. Evil has fought evil all throughout history and this conflict was no exception.
@@olgamihajlova3577
Somehow I doubt that a three-volume series of 700-page books with eloquent language and lots of descriptions into life in the Gulags was all faked. If I were a liar trying to discredit my country, I probably wouldn't have been able to come up with enough content to fill that many pages.
It is true that a lot of his guesses were incorrect, after all, he was just a prisoner in the system. It's not like he had access to the government's records.
But people still see his work as a personal memoir if not a historically accurate representation of the USSR. The Gulag Archipelago is a valuable look into the nightmares of Stalin's reign, just as the personal accounts of Hitler's concentration camps were. Solzhenitsyn was a great hero and it's well-documented online from many different sources. The idea that he was a liar and a cheat is little more than a conspiracy theory.
Seriously, read up on him and read his books for yourself before you judge. You'll find it to be an incredibly enlightening experience.
Daily reminder that people defend this man
Commies really think he is some hero or some shit..
@The Quiver For example a guy called Infrared on TH-cam defends Stalin and Mao and pretty much all the communist regimes of old. These people are usually called tankies in leftist TH-cam circles.
Because they are weak and they are exactly what communist party wanted: brain washed workers who listen only to their “leader”
US students should watch this story...
I had a polish friend who was taken to a labor gulag with his wife. He had a PhD in Chemistry and his wife was a lawyer. They were stuck in the gulag doing tree logging. very dangerous work. he told me the russians would always tell them they would never get out fo there and that they would die there. When WW2 ended, the russians refused to release them. He got sent to Uzbekistan and he managed to escape to France, then the USA. .
Legend
The so called amurika is just another prison itself. My ex gf was American, and lived there for many years. I decided to leave. Here in greece even tho we have several problems I feel happier bc I have friends and family members that never let me feel alone. I do work hard to take care of myself but I feel safer from when I was in the past. I have my time off and my coffee with my morning ouzo
The ability to record these experiences is humankind's greatest asset. Our lifespans are far too short to learn from our mistakes on our own, but perhaps the immortalisation of experiences just like Vera's will help us to finally end the cycle.
Well put. 🙏🏻
Sadly the humans in power are too evil and genocides are still happening today. I don't know if the tyranny of humans will ever come to an end sadly
@@omairsh8 Fallen human nature for you. :(
Why is the Holocaust so important 80 years later, but this event and many like it are not so important?
politics
just google King Leopold Congo
Because it wasn't real communism.
we are taught to hate russia......so no one cares or is even interested
I don't know. Maybe because the USSR was our ally during WW2. Can't talk bad about your ally.
Looks like to what the Americans did to the iraqi citizens at the Abu Ghareeb prison. But the media hush-hushed it and the people are ok with it.
What an idiotic thing to say. It wasn't hushed up. You know about it. duh. To compare that to the gulags is an insult to victims of those camps. Millions were sent there and 1.7 million died there.
@@jabom99 citation needed kid. Also gimme your thoughts on the soviet union abolishing penal labor in 1955 and the u.s. still having penal labor (i.e. what you would call literal gulags) in 2021. I need your big brain thoughts on that.
2 things can be bad at once
Next time you hear someone say that America is a fascist state, keep her story in mind. We're not without flaws, but look at her story- no due process, no right to counsel, just a Soviet state that trampled the rights of individuals - murdering millions through torture, rape, starvation, work camps and for many meeting their end at the sound of a gun. An entire generation subsumed into madness by the actions of one man and his inner circle. Read the constitution and cherish the wisdom of the men that wrote that document.
@weirdshibainu Thank you, I can't stand watching people praise the Soviet Union and acting as if Stalins atrocities were completely justified. People fail to see that Stalins state was another form of fascism in all but name.
The pain in her eyes is heartbreaking. Years of misery and unfathomable horrors instilled in her voice is too much. No human being should ever have to experience such a life, it kills me that even in modern day there are still camps like this in the world. I hope she and others like her find peace somehow someway, although the mind has been plagued with such atrocities I hope that even the slightest peacefulness fulfils her but I can't even begin to imagine how traumatizing this was.
The last Soviet gulag closed in the 1960s but unfortunately, this kind of shit still goes on in countries like North Korea and possibly China and the middle east.
@@Elly3981 No, there still are that do more or less the same thing, and not only for punishment but also for combat training.
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How many have died in such fashion, we'll never know their stories. Incredible evil by so many, how?
Bolshevik communists. They still manipulate the world today.
About 100,000 or so died
@@mysteriousmuffin6017 Not even close. The Russians admit to about 2 million which indicates there are several million more.
Max K Well the Soviet archives indicate that the death toll was in the thousands.
@@mysteriousmuffin6017 I'd appreciate sources on this. Estimates from others have been quite a bit higher than 100,000.
Westerners don't know as much about the Gulag system as they should. Stalin was every bit as sadistic as Hitler - maybe more so. I hope Vera has a little peace in her life. 💓
Stalin, was more methodical, systematic, and cunning than,Hitler.
According to the former Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, Rev Gabriel Amworth, Stalin was said to be more under, Satan's influence/ control than Hitler was.
Stalin and Mao made hitler look like boy scout.
Does anyone know what happened to the Gulag prisoners when some of the camps were
overrun by the German Forces ? Seems likely the Nazis would have either exterminated them
used them as slave labor or maybe even as mercinaries against the Soviets ?
Thank you for this video. Fifty years ago, I lived very close to the Iron Curtain in (West) Germany and saw what the Soviets did to their own people. Only a precious few Americans can begin to understand that. Still, it's extremely important to document it so as to prevent it recurrence. Unfortunately, the Russian military is now doing the same thing to the Ukrainian people.
Gives a whole new meaning to *"You go to Gulag."*
says the first American president
My teammate got sent to the gulag. He will have to fight for his chance of redeployment
What dignified and gracious human being she is.....
But-but this wasn't Real Communism!
Yes, in real communism, everyone should be dead :)
Its ironic, these men that killed millions of people are all portrayed in a childs comic book as a character named Thanos and yet, these children know nothing of the real life counter parts to this character and many sadly never will. Truth always hides in plain view.
Laughable, thanos’s theory of overpopulation is based on a theory by Thomas Malthus who believed we should give no help to the poor so they die off and the population decreases, that is everything that communism isnt. In fact, letting your people starve sounds a lot like America….
@@timmychode7444 sounds like America? You mean the wealthiest country to ever have existed in the modern world that has lifted more people out of poverty than any other country in history? A country where even many from other countries laugh because our homeless are fat? You mean that America? 😂😂😂 Yes communism is the answer, let a Stalin rule over you and find out how wrong you are. Ignorance is bliss for the simple minded....dont be simple minded.
I don't know how she survived such horrible systematic abuse & torture. Her body must have gone on autopilot, so she could some how keep moving. It's so brave to tell her story, & now it exists for generations to see. Thanks to her finding her voice, the horrors of the people out in Gulags can't ever be erased or forgotten. It's on the internet forever. Her story is so vital, powerful, & important I'm so grateful she shared, I knew very little, but am going to look into it much more, & make sure others know, all thanks to her. What they did, their crimes against humanity, against her, & her family for yrs, exists for people to see, & learn what we must never allow or become.
The biggest irony is that there are some russians from gulags who even love Stalin.
Just read some comments, there's still maniacs out there
The Stockholm Syndrome to an extreme.
It is a religion like any other. An Evangelist take-over in the US with Bnai Brith supervision wouldn't be better.
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Nice quote from a nazi collaborator and a Pinochet supporter.
Is that not america being described???
@@timmychode7444 But the US is a Democratic country with checks and balances that work, even if it has some other weak points. But nobody in the US will send you to prison just because he decided that you should spent the rest of your life in prison. Imagine this: When Russian POWs liberated by the allies or the Red army, they have sent directly into the Gulags just because they have being captured by the enemy. The Gulag system was also an economic factor, the Gulags raised their demands and the KGB delivered. Many times just random people from the streets, in order to fulfil the quotes.
@@cmdreftilon9786how do you know they have check and balance when you always have the elite who lobby in the congress. Democracy is just an illusion.
The gulag archipelago. Author Alexandre Solzhenitsyn.
Lest we forget.
Lest we forget that he was a literal Nazi collaborator and a Pinochet supporter. Go back to class.
This should be required viewing for all Americans from high school and up!
The Nazis got the idea for mobile extermination vans from Stalin's mob
Nazi did ? I thought it's inspired china van
This is happening today in China.
And North Korea.
No it is happening in Muslims Nations
@@Huang_Yisen no... it happens in china, north korea and muslim dominated countries.
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Lier if you’re teeth were broken you will say Muslims are the reason freak on the other hand it happens by evidence in China and other countries to Muslims the victims and we don’t have such cases in our countries
It happens syria . Does it even exist? I think American should nuke syria just like japan
This is what happens when you don’t fight for your freedom!
Freedom from what? From education, from jobs, from healthcare, from industry? To have free air in your pocket and live on the street? Stalin started to manage agrar-level country during civil war and when he ended - he had a pipe for personal belongings and country was leading anti-empire with no racist laws, had space tech, nuclear capability and it won against direct aggression from collective Nazi Europe.
@@HECKAKYH-ADEKBATEH why innocent people were send to gulags
@@memewalemama2036 which innocent people? how did you prove they were innocent? to which "gulags" - gulag literally means detention HEADQUARTERS. I know that some were falsely accused for messing with soviet regime by careerist, one prominent example Nikita Khrustchev, who jailed own folk in order to move the ladder, but careerists are human psychology phenomena. Eitherway, moderate communists were far more humane that capitalists/tsarists (in reality, not in fairy tales), but conditions for communist elite were far less rewarding, which is what caused ussr to collapse.
@D B british tsar funded lenin. Tsar is enemy of tsar.
@D B imho they already controlled the british govt back then, so its same.
There is a special place in hell for the people who ran these place's
They were all executed so they wouldn't tell anyone what happened. And the people that executed them were executed.
А теперь нам пытаются доказать что Сталин был чуть ли не ангел.
Imagine that!
Let this strong wonderful woman come face to face with Putin and ask him all the "Whys" and "Why he still won't answer for the evils of Communism or denounce it?"
Thank you for your story Vera! Sorry you and your family went through this. Hope more people learn about this so humanity tried to prevent it from happening again.
Definitely. She is doing it in a situation where it is not popular for her to speak up like that. In Russia, Stalin has been rehabilitated in the wake of Putin's rise to power & his nationalistic propaganda.
Yeah. I'm glad the Atlantic is letting people know about the evils of democratic socialism. Never again!
@@RazorSkinned86 huh yeah no.... bolsheviks were against democratic socialism... hence all the democratic socialists they outlawed, repressed and murdered. I think you do yourself and history a bit of injustice by bringing your politics to the past without knowing what you're talking about.
ArhGee it wasn’t democratic socialism, it was totalitarian communism and frankly US and other democratic capitalist countries committed crimes comparable to Stalins during those times.
Madrigal E exactly, a mere suspicion that someone was a democratic socialist was enough to end up in gulag
From the Bolshevicks to Stalin 60 to 100 million were tortured, raped starved to death..
My polish friend told me the Germans in Russia treatedbher grandparents respectfully
What the Bolsheviks did was worse than anything the Nazi’s did. The Russian revolution back in the 1910’s was a devastating blow for the next 60+ years
@@brennanw.6845 74 years to be exact.
@@brennanw.6845, you are out of your mind and brainwashed by the anti-Russian propaganda. All these stories about the gulag are not true. This gulag was a normal prison, where the accused also worked and got their salary. The people who were sent there were not innocent.
Oh yeah? The Germans killed 27 million people in the Soviet Union. From those 27 million only 9 million were military men, the rest were civilians, who were tortured, burnt alive and killed by the Germans. Thanks to Stalin the nazis were defeated.
@@brennanw.6845 you are blind to history. I am not one to doubt the downfalls of the ussr, but I don’t understand how you fail to recognize the greatness of it. Before the revolution Russia was a backwards nation, nearly feudalist. 40 years after the revolution they sent a man to space.
Folks let’s not forget this is happening again in 2022 IN CHINA. They are literally doing the same.
do you think this would've happened if they had the right to bear arms?
Yes, it happens in America too. Our prison system isn’t really much better. I support gun ownership more than most anyone on my side of politics but I still believe it’s true that nothing except a unity of the working class can prevent tyranny and imperialism.
@@timmychode7444 imprisonment on a gulag scale has never happened when a government fears it's people. It only happens when the people fear the government. History is not friendly to large numbers of gullible people who ignorantly trust large government. There is a very very very very important reason that the second amendment exists. Not only to protect the first amendment but to protect life and liberty itself. A people not willing to fight for it's ability to protect themselves deserve any and all repercussions from a heavy handed dictator.
Interestingly, I never saw this video, but read avidly WW2 history chronologically for past 40 years, in fact my , interpretation and conclusions quite opposite. Leaders of Western Europe were acted like brothers in arms with Hitler till end of 1938, even British Prime minister displayed to the media Hitler's "loveletter" with signature, proudly after gifting Sudetenland to Hitler. But these losers blame Joseph Stalin who never even bothered to meet with Hitler. Yet made alliance with Nazis just to bargain sometime because at that time USSR still undergoing Industrialization and not in ready to fight costly war with Industrial giant like Germany while rest of European leaders were already hiding in their chicken coops. Stalin lead an unprepared nation with unmechanized primitive army to establish order in Europe and rest of the world . No feeble leader would have achieved such humongous super human task.
Thank you. Anecdotal evidence of soviet defectors is down there with some of the least reliable information we have regarding soviet history. Stalin helped beat back Nazi invasion while they were on the doorstep of Moscow, these feverishly anti-Stalin people are out of their minds
fairytale history.
@@Rustycan5639 literally- people take the few stories of tragedies in gulags and use those to represent the whole. Im sure most of these tragedies DID happen, but even still there’s nuance (German invasion, the typhus outbreak, the literal fact that they’d only been a nation for a couple years) and people fail to mention the general experiences of the gulags
I don't what to say. I only want to cry.
This is what a human is willing to do to stay in Power.
Power & Control are dangerous & addictive drugs...
@@davidhollenshead4892 That how the world works, Stalin was pure evil in an ideal world, however he didn´t live in a ideal world and forshaw the conflict with the west
How you gonna convince people to vote you? pleading won't get you anywhere, brute force works
Stalin turned USSR into a superpower, without him USSR would get defeated in WW2.
There are great leaders that works like Stalin
I had no idea USSR had their own Guantanamo Bay
This is absolutely heartbreaking what this lady experienced, and amazing how cruel people can be to each other. That her child died, probably owing to incompetence on the part of the people on duty. I worked in the Peace Corps in a post Soviet Central Asian country. Some of my colleagues talked of the deportations, no one ever talked about gulags though Central Asia had many gulags. Many of my colleagues spoke of themselves or family members being deported from somewhere else to there and indigenous people spoke of family members deported to another region and loss of contact. The reasons I heard people gave for deportation and disappearance cases included complaints by jealous co-workers and neighbors, alleged insults against the state, and men desiring other people's wives would then cause the disappearance of their husbands. From other sources, though, I've heard that companies wanted cheap or free labour, and the government used any pretext to grab people and send them to work in camps.
There is a special place in the deepest,most horrible,burning,place in hell for these inhuman animals!! These people who torture,maim,killed these poor people,,,if they're dead,,,good riddance! And if they died already,,,they most certainly are roasting in hell,and being tortured by demons now!! One does reap what we one does!! These people who committ these atrocities have gone demon possessed!! God haters!!
@@ilas8675 animals are not this cruel, there aren’t even equivalent to how disgusting a human beings truly are.
this is what’s coming to the west
Yeah, if Biden wins.
Make sure you have a gun so they cant come and take you away quietly in the night. Someone is going to die if they break down my door.
@@weltygameclips Bruh can't wait!
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4 months in of biden's presidency yet I'm still here?
As a Russian, I can respect this, she speak of her tragedy I respect it
WHO RAN THE GULAG? THEY WEREN'T RUSSIAN. THEY HATED RUSSIANS.
This is so sad :(
Genocide
Lol get back in class kid
It's a pity that there are almost no films on this terrible, beastly, unspeakable period of Soviet Union history. Wasn't America a declared enemy of communism? So, why didn't Hollywood produce movies on this topic? So contradictory...
If you’re learning to speak Russian and are still a beginner, the way she speaks is really easy to understand given how clearly and deliberately she pronounces her words. Very helpful.
Actually it was Lenin who established the first gulag for political prisoners ,Stalin just made more of them .
And Stalin very much worsened the conditions. Gulags were essentially to be a prison like most any other, but due to the german invasion, disease (most deaths from the gulags are attributed to a typhus outbreak) and Stalin’s poor leadership, conditions were worsened
It's like hearing my own grandma talking about the German soldiers and their allies back in Greece,1940😰😨She was a little girl at the time of the invasion.Now she's 83 and she remembers everything from that era.I love her so much🤍
Good on you for sharing the truth that Stalin was a true monster who committed so many war crimes. Stalin being aligned with the allies at wars end, Churchill & Roosevelt could not be seen in the same bed as a monster so Hitler became the Yom Kippur. The scapegoat to cleanse the sins
Read The Whisperers by Orlando Figes. Amazing book with all first hand accounts.
Yes! The book is just as excellent as Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece.
У меня умерло несколько родственников в Сандармохе, Карелии. Какие же страшные времена
This is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever laid my gaze upon. Reality is truly not only stranger than fiction. But rather, more horrifying.
Remember why America is a free country and why all of us "ignorant" americans are proud of that. The whole world should be free. The soviet union was evil. This poor woman, im happy she at least gets to live the rest of her days i peace. Adios stalin.
This will be us soon
My grandpa was in gulag. Managed to come back but he was absolutely mental. He scared of Russians so much. Didnt want to talk about his past, he told a little bit when he was dying. He was released quite soon as if compared to other prisoners so I think he had to do something nasty..
It always shocks me, the ability of a person to inflict this kind of treatment onto another. But it happens every day. I try to read uplifting articles and stories to help balance out the negative that is constantly being sent into our view. They exist, you just have to look.
About 7% of the soviet population was in a gulag/prison under Stalins time. To give you an idea of how much that is about 6% of the American population is in prison.
These are two different things. AYO!!!!
Poor Vera😢😢😢😢😢😢!I would like to give you the biggest hug ever and adopt you❤️! You are a woman of matchless courage. God Bless You!
Poor girl. damn. Brutal.
We’re at the 1917 part of this story in 2021
When she said they where nothing like the real Russian people that shit hit me like a ton of bricks I bet the Russian people she talks about are great people
Monsters are real
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Comrade, my neighbor has been indulging in counter-revolutionary thought. I personally witnessed him admiring an advertisement from America that featured Ford motor vehicles. And he smiled while looking at it
a good friend of mine from Saudi Arabia tells a similar story about the Crown Prince's regime there. Sons ripped from mother's arms in the middle of the night, never to be seen or heard from again, all for either expressing dissent or being accused of it.
Happened in Argentina and Chile too.
If you have not read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" you are not really an educated person. It should be required reading in all High Schools
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Независимые политологи и историки устали разбирать все то что писал Солженицын.
It's so clear that you didn't fact check the numbers in the book, and here you are calling people who haven't read it uneducated. What a joke.
Thank you for sharing your pain...
The horrors of socialism. Why modern day democrats aspire to this ideology I do not know. But this is always the end result.
“God will repay each person according to what they have done.” Romans 2:6
Without God, we are all lost, broken and evil. Only the love of Jesus can save us from our own sinful hearts. This is what happens when we turn away from heaven, our land becomes hell.
well said
Jesus was a human he was praying to the God, so do what Jesus was doing. It's simple
They did live like king till they died. 🤪
It so sad to see her like that May she be batter and be save from god.
Just an explication of the start of the camps. According to Solzhenitsyn's Gulag archipelago, the camps were idealized from Lenin(1917) and Stalin worsened it, principally in 1929, when the kulaks were killed.
Actually camps were before Lenin's time .. my grand grand father was in one in 1890s... 15 years. They were ran by Je*ish people... But you won't hear that anywhere. Also Lenin and Stalin were that sooo...
Does anyone know what happened to the Gulag prisoners when some of the camps were
overrun by the German Forces ? Seems likely the Nazis would have either exterminated them
used them as slave labor or maybe even as mercinaries against the Soviets ?
@@lorenzovonmatterhorn7402 Liar.
has anyone read the book "Jewish-Run Concentration Camps In The Soviet Union" by Herman Greife?
Thank you, Madam Golobeva! The world has to know about these crimes.
Who are/were the most evil people ever in modern times ?
Stalin, Hitler, Himler, PolPot, Amin, Jack the ripper.
Alas thete are many more...
Such a strong voice after such tragedy! I can only imagine what a brave woman Vera is. May she find some peace in this life, and thank you for sharing your story with the world!
Yes, she organized terrorist cell during war, such a brave woman.
I am so sorry,humans can be so cruel.
Strong and brave woman.
We need the sober reminder that all men are capable of committing the most terrible evils imaginable. All men no matter how high, no matter how strong and pious can be brought low and damned by his own quiet unawakened darkness. We should never destroy history good or bad. Never think that erasing the past purges its evil from our future. The evils of the past should be canvased and framed on walls; solidified in statues as ghosts to haunt us. To condemn us. To be signs of places we should never go. As mirrors that show us who we really are. Unblinded! But to be at the same time a hope for good and a hope for salvation.
its just a big shame for humans that some have done brutuallity to others.
You ain't seen anything yet.. your all is yet to come
What else do you expect to come from democratic socialism. thank you the Atlantic for making sure people know about this.
@@RazorSkinned86 huh yeah no.... bolsheviks were against democratic socialism... hence all the democratic socialists they outlawed, repressed and murdered. I think you do yourself and history a bit of injustice by bringing your politics to the past without knowing what you're talking about.
@@acgillespie meaning?
@@lynnefranks6674 .It means we are all being groomed for a whole lot of evil that is coming.. Most Human's will not survive.. They'll keep populations as they wish by making breeding for some Impossible.. many many will take there own lives from the horror about to be unleashed
God bless you Vera, hopefully your next life is rich with love laughter and life. You deserve it
Stories like this make Boomer paranoia more understandable to those of us who come after
My Grandparents and Rabbi tell us. We have no idea how horrible Soviet Union was
Today North Korea and Communist China is like that.
It wasn't paranoia, but knowing the evil of central planning, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, communism, socialism and anything else that puts others in power over you. Liberty and equal protection work wonders as proven since the greatest expansion of population, wealth, education, health and lifespans since The Enlightenment. What's wise is for the youth to no pretend they know better how to deal with humans than all of history's actual efforts. They are lucky to have the best world that's ever existed, despite it's problems that are real, but pale in comparison to the past.
You mean Boomers had a reason to be paranoid about Obama and those non-existent FEMA camps? It used to be that politicians could have genuine differences in opinion without the other side frantically declaring that every Obama proposal brought America close to becoming the 1930s Soviet Union.
mitzvah golem China is not even like that have you been to China or just spreading news that Americans media told you. Chinese people put an effort to see the other side of American media and perspective but y’all don’t because you believe you have some moral compass. Ewwww
Home Wall people don’t even feel free under capitalism
We need more videos about this to show this thing to hitler haters.
***..Thank you so much Vera for sharing with us your horrible experience under communist / psychopath Stalin's regime [ I 'm sorry to hear you had to go threw this ] Bless your soul Vera and a lot of love 😘💕 .. from Québec ***
There is no justice. Not in this world!
Welcome to the gulag you betta fight for your freedom or your teammates can bail you out
The KGB was formed in 1954. Stalin died in 1953. So it was called the NKVD until 1946.
So they chenged a few letters, today its called "FSB" but basicaly its the same s*t.
Lotta tankies disliking this video huh?
Vinny it’s funny because the 50 poorest countries in the world are all capitalist. None of them recognize socialism/communism in their constitution. North Korea and Cuba are able to have free healthcare yet there countries have been heavily affected by America sanctions
@@evano5635 How is that funny? And how is it relevant? Most sane Americans agree that an upgrade to our healthcare system is necessary. You arent saying anything new, and the north Korean bit is an obfuscation of the facts. The North Korean population literally get hydrazine fuel dropped on them from the ever consistent missile tests they do, poisoning villages and genetically defecting generations of people. You can literally look up videos of the leaking refuse from missile shells being lodged 20 meters away from villages where people sleep, eat and live. But sure, "FREE HEALTHCARE" am i right? Youre absurd.
More-over, the poor state of Americas healthcare doesn't justify a divorcement from the entire system of capitalism. Thats throwing the baby out with the bath-water. Youre in over your head buddy, because your arguments are weak & were clearly only written because you felt a certain way about my "tankie" comment. So why do you support communism?
Lets see if you can produce an answer without irrelevant anti-capitalist jabs, lay out your philosophy for me.
Vinny North Korea is the most sanctioned country in the world. What economic incentive does it get from killing its people. Like ask yourself this. Because basic things like medication isn’t even alllowed into the country because of its sanctions. So why should Kim be constantly killing his people when you actually need people to maintain your country. North Korea struggles towards sovereignty stems from America destroying the country.
Vinny I support communism because capitalism is destroying my home country in Africa. Because of the dangerous effects of capitalism my family had to immigrate to western countries and they were rich too. So many immigrants experience this. So here is my argument on the validity of communism. ..... first let’s remember that Americans Europe built their countries capital and wealth through the use of colonialism and imperialism and slavery. Remember such systems practiced the economic principles of capitalism. However Russia did not own any colony or practice any form of imperialism. During the time America and it’s like we’re exceeding Russia was struggling as a country because the majority of its people were living in poverty and had no education. Yet with communism it removed the rate of poverty, created innovate Industry, and improve the country literacy rate. Hell the ussr had its own space program and the country was extremely poor. And if you talk about there is no innovative under communism the ussr invented laser eye surgery and so many more cool things. Why not set up the economy in a way that better the life’s of a community instead of the life of an individual. Why must we encourage a system that brings out the worst in human. Am sorry for being rude am just angry. One thing I wanna point out is that the reason that you see such a bias one side view of communism is because of America Cold War capitalist propaganda.
@@evano5635 Hey man thats an awesome response no worries at all this is an important discussion so a certain amount of passion is expected!
I know that I have to recognize the glaring mistakes of capitalism, in that through our imperialism and slavery we've destroyed countless lives in order to further our own progress. I agree that such moral-less, cut-throat evil is unacceptable. I think that in these discussions, I've noticed a pattern that goes as follows:
My side focuses on the worst mistakes of communism in order to posture it as an evil system, and your side focuses on the worst mistakes of capitalism in order to posture it as an evil system. But you've just laid out numerous very positive examples of communism that I would be ignorant to disregard. So obviously communism can be a very progressive system under the correct conditions, right?
Well, are there not similar positive elements of capitalism that shouldn't be reduced to our grave misuses of imperialism and slavery? Like global trade networks etc? I agree that a certain amount of my support for capitalism & distaste for communism definitely is affected by propaganda, in that I support capitalism because I was born into it and have been given fairly decent chances at improving my life based on this system I was born into. I'm even willing to admit that I dont know enough about the inner workings of communism to say that its entirely bad. But Im sure you also accept that there have been human atrocities and grave mistakes at the hands of communism as well, right?
Bare with me for a moment, I wonder if the way forward is for me to admit that capitalists dont always get it right, and for you to admit that communists dont always get it right, and for us to begin learning from the strongest parts of each others systems instead of completely disregarding them? Isn't it a fact that capitalist economies are usually quite strong? Even China and Russia have adopted capitalistic economic frameworks & capitalism has opened up a global trade network, aren't those good elements of capitalism? We could probably make a lot of progress if we tried to forge a path forward, together instead of at odds with each other.
but..... I can see how that's hard, because you've PERSONALLY been affected negatively by capitalism where as I have never been affected negatively by communism. So maybe im being childish in assuming we can accept elements of each others ideas. I dont know. Let me know what you think?
THIS person has reason to say "I'm triggered"
God bless and comfort them all.
This is Bernie Sander's & AOC's workers paradise!
Thanks.
Anyone complaining about first world problems needs to watch this every time they think their having a rough go at things. Puts things in perspective.
this can happen anywhere and anytime
A very brave lady !
make bernie sanders watch it over and over again....!!! what sick old man
Sanders has nothing to do with this buddy. This is pure evil, and Sanders has nothing to do with it
You sir are brainwashed if you believe Sanders to be a Stalinist. To the rest of the world Sander’s is barely left wing.
@@mysteriousmuffin6017 Whilst I agree, your name of "comrade" doesn't help your case
@@alessiodelcastillo1613 try bit of educational reading my kid, start with gulag archipelago, then go to sharlamov..continue on to holodomor...maybe after few years you Will notice how godless evil Marxist Ideas permeate and end slowly but surely with death and mayhem....hard for Americans to grasp it..since they have never experienced that as a nation, most of American experiences are TELEVISION experiences hehehehe, including yours my kid...
@@mysteriousmuffin6017 Okay, so Sanders is not a Stalinist, but he is a Sandersist. Better?
And so many people today say they have ptsd. Shame on them.. shame!
This hit me right in the feels. 😩
Stalin was a bastard so putin.