Thank you to all for the very interesting presentation. It is always a treat to hear Anne speak. She is one of the most important historians of this era. Her knowledge and insight is exceptional . She gives us a great awareness of modern eastern European history and warnings about the future .
It is our moral responsibility to commemorate victims of different totalitarian regimes. It is even greater responsibility to prevent future tragedies from happening.
Ironically, she is herself a criminal. Member of the NED, a regime-change outfit of the CIA, covertly (and not so covertly) interfering in democratic process around the world. She supports fascist regimes, the latest being the one who hides behind the gold and blue flag.
Well worth watching...Anne Applebaum is brilliant!!! She serves as a true humanitarian by shedding light on past injustices as well as future potentials of authoritarian governments.. Thank you for presenting this as a lecture rather than in interview format. It's more than wonderful to see and hear her speak uninterrupted.
@@mariapierog917 What are you talking about? I experience your message as being very cryptic. This is not meant to be an insult, but rather one of genuine curiosity. What are you really trying to say?
“And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that you cannot even orientate yourself any longer; in its dense, gray fog, not even one pillar can be seen.” -A. Solzhenitsyn “The Gulag Archipelago”
Christine brings up a good point. Many Left fascists deny the gulags existed. The world needs books that goes into detail about the many crimes of the socialists. Books on gulags and death camps are welcome.
“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely that hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipelago"
“This is surely the main problem of the twentieth century: is it permissible merely to carry out orders and commit one's conscience to someone else's keeping? Can a man do without ideas of his own about good and evil, and merely derive them from the printed instructions and verbal orders of his superiors?” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The authority in all moral questions is conscience, it speaks with authority as the sum of one’s inner knowledge on any moral questions. When conscience speaks that is the law by which one acts with reason to be self governed. This also makes each one accountable for their personal decision by universal justice or karma...
“You will understand everything immediately, when you yourself - ‘hands behind the back’ - [stumble] into our Gulag Archipelago.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ironically, she is herself a criminal. Member of the NED, a regime-change outfit of the CIA, covertly (and not so covertly) interfering in democratic process around the world.
A laudable piece of research. Future generations of Russians must know the truth. Anna's devotion to this work is most impressive. The story Anna tells is not a happy one, but fair, accurate accounts of what happened are essential.
This is the one who said that Hunter Biden's laptop was "not interesting"? Right. Because its just not obvious enough that Joe Biden is involved. If China bought one shoe for 20 million dollars from Ivanka when Trump was president, do you think the public would be interested or Anna would cover it? She is as biased as they get.
Ironically, she is herself a criminal. Member of the NED, a regime-change outfit of the CIA, covertly (and not so covertly) interfering in democratic process around the world.
“Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A few years ago, Vladimir Putin opened a new memorial to the atrocities of the Stalin Era on the outskirts of Moscow. He said all the right words, as he did in 2018 on the 100th Anniversary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s birth. These events will be very hard to watch in the future if one has lived through these times. I write this on March 12, 2022.
"Only through history does a nation become completely conscious of itself. Accordingly, history is to be regarded as the rational self-consciousness of the human race." -Schopenhauer
Not true. The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of childcare, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorised and sexually abused.
Because the media in the west doesn’t want to highlight the atrocities committed by a regime that the elites in the west, the Wall Street and the media back then, supported. The NY Times Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Walter Duranty, who covered Stalin and the Soviet Union in the 1930s, denied the existence of the forced famine in Ukraine (the Holodomor, 1932-33).
Read Solzhenitsyn in the 70's when his work was new. Read Applebaum when it was new. I watch You Tube channels where Russians are recovering WWII artifacts more to help the families. The trauma was so bad there are those who have to justify they did to survive.
Applebaum claims that no one was exterminated in the Gulag camps and that a mere 25 million “went through” the Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn claimed that 66 million people were murdered, in the Gulag system. This is a huge discrepancy, which Applebaum does not clear up or even reference. Solzhenitsyn also describes the fate of “dangerous” intellectuals, who were sent to the uranium mines, with no protective clothes or gear, whatsoever. The healthiest individual could only be expected to last 18 months after being incarcerated in these camps. Applebaum implied that Stalin only used firing squads to exterminate people. But I have learned from many sources that Stalin also sent brigades of murderers and rapists to target whole towns, which Stalin didn’t like for political reasons. The caveat was that no one should be allowed to survive these attacks. This tactic was employed by the Polish communists, during the Solidarity movement, to attack protesting students at universities. Violent criminals were let loose on the student body, of these protesting universities. This happened in the 1980s! Our media in the West, ignored this. Applebaum also trivializes why less people were aware of these crimes against humanity, saying things like “people don’t really care about history.” I am grateful to Anne Applebaum for at least bringing attention to these communist crimes but, I also get the feeling that she is softening the acuity of these atrocities.
Thankyou to Constanze Itzel, Joanna Urbanek & Anne Applebaum for all of this video. I am late in watching it, but the past historical events are even more pertinent now following the devastating invasion, with many civilian deaths, of Ukraine, causing millions of refugees! I wish that 16, 17 & 18 years of age english speaking school children could watch all of this. Thankyou again.
When she said she was offered the opportunity to buy an archive of a small prison camp, I thought at first someone offered to sell her the camp itself. Nothing in Russia would surprise me.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and understanding about certain events. What you noted about dehumanizing, minimizing others in order to carry out cruel and hateful crimes, is key to the numerous wars, conflicts throughout history. If you see any human being for what he or she is, then there would be a relation, not a conflict. I imagine sociopaths, which lack consciousness, are unable the have any empathy with another human being, thus, abuses, crime, wars and so on do occur. Lets face it, there are evil individuals who are the source of such abuses. On the other hand, Politics may be a subject to analyze - I see it as a world full of lies, treason only with the purpose to preserve power for a minority. Ukraine 2022, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libia, Kosovo, you name it; destruction of others preceded by numerous lies by a pretended 'more powerful country-USA'. Politics is a very dirty, corrupted subject and its results have damaged millions.
A somewhat more detailed discussion of the demographic research used to arrive at an estimate of famine deaths between 3.5 and 4.5 million: "In his 1946 survey, _The Population of the Soviet Union_, the demographer Frank Lorimer studied data from the Soviet census of 1925 and 1939 and all available information on fertility and mortality between these two dates. He calculated that what demographers call "excess deaths", that is, in Lorimer's method, a comparison of the reported total population in 1939 with the expected population at that date - given the count in 1925 and everything known about fertility, mortality and emigration between those years - amounted to somewhere between 4.5 million and 5 million, though this total included perhaps several hundred thousand emigrants, such as those Central Asian nomads moving into Sinkiang to avoid collectivisation." "In their 1979 volume _How the Soviet Union is Governed_, Professors Jerry Hough and Merle Fainsod generally supported Lorimer's calculation and concluded that the more extreme western estimates 'cannot be sustained'. Rather, "a smaller - but still horrifying - number" of "maybe some 3.5 million" emerges as the direct or indirect result of collectivisation in the early 1930s." Significantly, the figures pertain to famine deaths across the Russian, Kazakh, and Ukrainian SSRs, which undercuts the "genocide by famine" narrative focused on the Ukrainian SSR. Ethnic hatred does, unfortunately, appear to have played a role in repressive Bolshevik policy going back to the days of the ChEKA revolutionary police. Friedrich Engels expressed his opinion of the teeming Russian masses when he wrote "Our task is not only the liquidation of reactionary classes but also reactionary peoples," referring to Orthodox Russian peasants with a traditional outlook (quote may be inexact). IMO the ethnic alienation and contempt with which a large portion of high-level Bolsheviks regarded the Russian population led to excesses up to some crimes against humanity (though not on the scale claimed by Cold War propagandists such as Robert Conquest). Trotskyists and other oh-so-pure Marxists with a death grip on the Russian Revolution as the model for "world revolution" find Stalin a convenient scapegoat for the Bolsheviks' record that reflected more structural and systemic issues among Bolshevik leaders in general. Stalin was a player in a game where the rule of brutality had been well established. We're a long way off from having an objective take on the strongly mixed bag of positives and negatives that constitute the multiple aspects of his record.
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People will believe what they want in today's world regardless of proven facts from historical record. I just hope people's sense of humanity prevails to elect good leadership.
She is a genius. She is also up to no good, most likely. In 1932 and 1933, the United States should have set up food camps in every district of Ukraine, Japan, Africa and Asia. The average lawmaker of European national origin will want to feed Europeans. She should have set up many food camps in all places where there was hunger. Stalin wouldn't have stopped her. Action speaks for itself. She is up to no good.
What a great friend of Poland!!! Lots of Polish, including those of Hebrew faith, were taken to this inhuman land after the Bolsheviks invaded Poland in Sept 1939…
I've never heard of a Gulag denier (they weren't that bad, or that many put in them). Maybe somewhere on the fringes there are somewhere, but not many.
The return of the Evil Empire. Nothing less. Interesting literature on this subject is the book that Simon Sebag Montefiore wrote about Stalin, having plowed through the archives.
Directly under U.S. aegis, Afghani “opium cultivation expanded from 8,000 hectares in 2001 to 224,000 hectares in 2020 …. responsible for more than 80 percent of global opium production” yet no drone strike targeting poppy fields was ever launched by NATO or the U.S. Bradley, J., “After the deadly error in Afghanistan, maybe drones shouldn’t be used to kill at all;" Mir, Hamid, “A flood of drugs from Afghanistan may become a bigger threat than terrorism;” WaPo 10-5.
Please, how do you know this? It is what I suspected but I didn't know where to find the information on the opium cultivation while the US was 'fighting' the Afghan war. And I'm guessing the Taliban will continue to grow it for $?
At 34:14 minutes we hear the crux of her message and the lesson that needs to go out to the World... as she points out, this message is Nation and national history agnostic.
this is not enough, as whenever westerners (mostly through postmodernism) are doing that, for many decades now, reaction of putin and alikes always is: yes, you are all of that and much worse.
Gulags are hard labor camps. Nazi war criminals were nearly always paid. Nazi war criminals were to stay a max of 10 years, max up to 1955. I ready that every year, starting from about 1946, while Stalin was still alive, about 10,000 Nazi POW prisoners were released every year. Early release was based of severity of crimes committed. Why East Germany was an ally of the Soviet Union, and had equal say on matters, such as POW release. Stalin : Nazi war criminals have relative and friends back in their home villages. I cannot allow death sentences on Nazi prisoner of war. Nazi wae criminals will work for any period between 1 year up to a max of 10 years.
Stаy strong Ukrаine 👏💪🇺🇦🇵🇹 Google translate : After the 2nd World War, 10-million Belarus was missing about 3 million of its inhabitants, but about 2 million were killed even before the war by the communist NKVD. In Belarus, 70 percent of all Belarusian writers were physically destroyed, scientists and artists were killed. (The troupe of the Third Belarusian State Theater of Vladislav Golubok was arrested in its entirety. Almost everyone was shot.) They were killed on a national basis. For the sake of this, the label "Natsdem" was coined (it means national democrat, although such a party did not exist). This label was attached to all Belarusians whom the Stalinists planned to exterminate. In the bowels of the NKVD, a non-existent anti-communist organization SVB ("Union for the Liberation of Belarus") was invented. Under the invented phantom, the NKVD carried out arrests, conducted an imaginary investigation, interrogated, tortured, tried, then exiled to Russia and shot innocent people. After the Riga agreement in 1921, Belarus was divided between Poland and Russia. The dividing line was drawn near Mensk. There was a secret order from the NKVD to exterminate the entire Belarusian population along the border. Russian invaders wanted to make a deserted zone here. The destruction was carried out by border troops. Trusted persons were given a rifle and a shovel. When such a border guard met in a deserted place (on a road, in a field, in a forest) a lonely Belarusian or Belarusian, or a child, he shot a person, immediately dug a hole with a shovel and covered up the corpse. That was the instruction. People in the villages were not so afraid of the "man with a gun" as they were of a soldier with a shovel. (These facts were published in the Belarusian press in the early 1990s.) In the 1930s, 95-99 percent (almost completely) were destroyed (exiled and shot) by the Belarusian communist-party and Soviet administration. They even destroyed the directorate and economic leaders. Russians from Russia were sent to the positions of murdered administrators and communist bosses-Belarusians. Russians (the so-called "nominees") came to Belarus, occupied vacant positions, received benefits, property, apartments, and the first thing they did was to close Belarusian schools, translate them into Russian, so that their children could study without burdening themselves with studying , as they said, "unnecessary" Belarusian language. Thus, the occupiers created a "Russian-speaking population" in Belarus. Ethnocide, linguacid, mnemacid and genocide were carried out by the Bolsheviks at the same time. The destruction of Belarusians by the Russian NKVD continued during the German occupation. In June 1941, during the first days of the war, the communists shot thousands of prisoners in prisons and on stages. Only in the Brest Fortress, where there was a terrible prison of the NKVD, they did not have time to liquidate all those arrested, some of them fled. Meanwhile, a large group of overseers and functionaries of the NKVD was blocked in the fortress by the Germans. They sat there for about a month until they died out. About 20 years after the war, the communists came up with a legend about the "heroic defense" of the Brest Fortress. It is noteworthy that a broad Soviet partisan movement was organized only in Belarus and partly in the ethnic Belarusian lands that were part of Russia (Smolensk, Bryansk). There was no partisan movement in occupied Russia. Why? Yes, because the plan for the destruction of the Belarusian nation continued to operate. Moscow, using the organs of the NKVD, dragged the masses of the Belarusian civilian population into the war against the Germans, and thus exposed the Belarusians to the German attack. The necessary work of struggle proceeded from an insidious plan and was carried out by vile methods. (Stalin wanted to get a double benefit.) The NKVD specifically killed a German near a Belarusian village or did some other provocation in order to provoke a punitive operation by the Nazis (who usually burned the entire village, most often along with the people). Thus, by the way, as a result of a special provocation by Soviet partisans, the famous Khatyn was also burned, which the communists then advertised to the whole world in the 70s as a typical victim of fascist atrocities. As a result of such a communist-fascist joint "work", more than 9 thousand villages were burned in Belarus. Therefore, by the end of the war, as a result of a special operation of the NKVD, many Belarusian commanders were sent to death, removed from command, killed and repressed. Their places were taken by Russians sent from Moscow and loyal NKVDs. In the summer of 1944, when the "Red Army" occupied Belarus, the Russians mobilized into the army on Belarusian territory. Tens of thousands of young Belarusian men, almost without training, were thrown to the front line. Russian commanders raised them in unnecessary attacks under the fire of German machine guns, without even giving weapons to their hands, or with rifles, but without cartridges. They died by the thousands, like grass under a scythe. And those who fled back fell under the bullets of the NKVD "blockade detachments". However, detachments fired in the back. This is how the destruction of Belarusians in the war continued, by the hands of the Germans and Russians. them at the same time. As the communists said, "in the struggle for the Soviet motherland." In the 1940s, the Russians took them to Siberia and tortured all the foresters and the so-called "kulaks" from Western Belarus there. They were taken out by wagons, in different rows.
TO MITIGATE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR; NATO view on Black Sea strategically, should consider expanding to also include a Kurd state; Reduce Russian influence in Syria by partitioning Syria to form Kurdish state in North-West Syria. So, Russia's naval port becomes Kurdish. For this, a United Nations General Assembly resolution is enough! Synergistically, a Kurd state (eventually within NATO), will lower Turkish pressure from Kurds; facilitating FINLAND and SWEDEN joining NATO with Turkish support!!
Granny Smith. Forget what’s wrong with Solzhenitsyn…never mind. For a journalist and writer of books you have a lot of support it seems. Always rather topical to the current need? Are you perhaps a neocon? Maybe not everyone needs changing. And it might go wrong…Just a thought.
Here the propaganda purpose of the youtube video maker is wrong. Nazis who had committed way too many atrocities:: 10 years of hard labor and release by 1955. 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. 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.
So how about modern jewish stalin Benjamin Netanyahu? or Madeleine K. Albright with million Iraqi kids??? Why dont talk about million muslims died in this freedom wars?
I’m curious about your opinion that Russia invaded Crimea. Here is a post I wrote that includes the subject of Crimea. Were 1.6 million Ukrainian Jews murdered by Nazis in Ukraine during WWII? That would be a horrific war crime. On another note, Russia has about 15 military bases outside its sovereign borders, correct? The US has over 800 military bases outside its sovereign borders staffed by over 500,000 civilian and military personnel. No problem there. And msm tells us that Russia is trying to take over the planet. 🤭 Doesn’t seem quite that simple. 🟢 Last time msm deceived us about Crimea so I’m not as ready to accept msm explanations this time without verifying from other sources… ✅ Has Ukraine really shelled the Donbass for eight years since the 2014 coup, killing about 14,000 people including many children? 🌍 May the Creator of the universe protect Ukrainian and Russian civilians from further harm… 😪 So whenever msm resurrects the “Russia invaded and annexed Crimea” narrative I resurrect my response... History lesson: In 1783 Crimea became Russian. From 1805 to the present the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been based at Sevastopol, Crimea. In 1954, a year after the horrific reign of Stalin ended with his death, the new Russian President Khrushchev decided to give Crimea to Ukraine, apparently surprising his advisors. He did keep the base at Sevastopol, however. In 2014, after a Western-backed soft coup in Ukraine, the Russian population of Crimea called a referendum. The vote was 97% to rejoin Russia. Unlike Kosovo, not one shot was fired and no one died. And unlike Kosovo, which many Western leaders recognized immediately and fell over each other changing their maps to reflect the new reality, maps were not changed. Someone responded to my comment by telling me that the UN had voted overwhelmingly not to recognize the Crimea referendum. My response? “The British voted overwhelmingly not to recognize the American Declaration of Independence.” That’s what I discovered about Crimea after the 2014 Western-backed soft coup. I have friends in both countries, btw. May God protect them in this storm. I pray that God will bless both Ukraine and the Russian Federation with peace and prosperity and an end to hostilities. ✅
I googled "the population of Ukraine 1925 to 1940" and found that the Ukraine population rose quite fast in the 1930s,from about 30 million in 1930 to over 41 million in 1940 this was far faster rate than Britains in the 1930s so it was a strange kind of Famine the Holodomor, writers should write about a population as it is not as it was expected to be .to say a population was expected to be 35 million but it was only 30 million so 5 million must have died or been executed is no way to relate History.
They replaced people (whom were up rooted, sent to the Gulag, exiled, starved, murdered etc.) with other people all over the Soviet Union, just like the ancient Assyrians.
Do you know that Stalin brought in people from other parts of Russia into Ukraine during this time? Alotta Russians too..You sound like a denier just like Neo-Naxis today!
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Thank you to all for the very interesting presentation. It is always a treat to hear Anne speak. She is one of the most important historians of this era. Her knowledge and insight is exceptional . She gives us a great awareness of modern eastern European history and warnings about the future .
It is our moral responsibility to commemorate victims of different totalitarian regimes. It is even greater responsibility to prevent future tragedies from happening.
Thank you Anna, I appreciate your effort as I have spent my childhood in gulag in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿. Not sure if world understands what really happened.
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I don't believe you lol
@@mariapierog917 Are you a stupid Russian troll, or simply stupid?
@Leon Wagner 910 You and your channel are ridiculous 🙄
Ironically, she is herself a criminal. Member of the NED, a regime-change outfit of the CIA, covertly (and not so covertly) interfering in democratic process around the world. She supports fascist regimes, the latest being the one who hides behind the gold and blue flag.
Well worth watching...Anne Applebaum is brilliant!!! She serves as a true humanitarian by shedding light on past injustices as well as future potentials of authoritarian governments.. Thank you for presenting this as a lecture rather than in interview format. It's more than wonderful to see and hear her speak uninterrupted.
🤣anna🤣 you do NOT know history......
@@mariapierog917 What are you talking about? I experience your message as being very cryptic. This is not meant to be an insult, but rather one of genuine curiosity. What are you really trying to say?
@@liz2959 these are Marxists apologetics...
“And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that
you cannot even orientate yourself any longer; in its dense, gray fog,
not even one pillar can be seen.”
-A. Solzhenitsyn “The Gulag Archipelago”
Applebaums book on The Gulag was amazing, horrifying, heart-rending and should be read by everyone.
1 million died of all causes. Over one million Germans were rounded up at the end of WWII on a open field and left to die.
@Christine Why? Perhaps you doubt all history?
Christine brings up a good point. Many Left fascists deny the gulags existed. The world needs books that goes into detail about the many crimes of the socialists. Books on gulags and death camps are welcome.
ot is also full of errors like all her warmongering criminal mind produce .
“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history,
but merely that hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipelago"
His book '200 Years Together' explains the relationship. Naturally he was attacked by them.
Anne Applebaum is one of the voices of our times. 🌿 I also like the noise of her jewellery in this interview… ✨
“This is surely the main problem of the twentieth century: is it permissible merely to carry out orders
and commit one's conscience to someone else's keeping? Can a man do without ideas of his own about
good and evil, and merely derive them from the printed instructions and verbal orders of his superiors?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The authority in all moral questions is conscience, it speaks with authority as the sum of one’s inner knowledge on any moral questions. When conscience speaks that is the law by which one acts with reason to be self governed. This also makes each one accountable for their personal decision by universal justice or karma...
“You will understand everything immediately, when you yourself - ‘hands behind the back’ -
[stumble] into our Gulag Archipelago.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I've just watched Anna's Yale lecture on Gulag.
Anna, you are so dedicated and talented! I could listen to your lectures endlessly
Thank you❤
it is also full of errors like all her warmongering criminal mind produce .
Ironically, she is herself a criminal. Member of the NED, a regime-change outfit of the CIA, covertly (and not so covertly) interfering in democratic process around the world.
A laudable piece of research. Future generations of Russians must know the truth. Anna's devotion to this work is most impressive. The story Anna tells is not a happy one, but fair, accurate accounts of what happened are essential.
This is the one who said that Hunter Biden's laptop was "not interesting"? Right. Because its just not obvious enough that Joe Biden is involved. If China bought one shoe for 20 million dollars from Ivanka when Trump was president, do you think the public would be interested or Anna would cover it? She is as biased as they get.
what this warmonger know about truth? is she willing to admit truth about millions killed by usa regime and its wars she support?
Ironically, she is herself a criminal. Member of the NED, a regime-change outfit of the CIA, covertly (and not so covertly) interfering in democratic process around the world.
“Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world:
They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being).
It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Anne Applebaum is an honest historian!
“Political genius lies in extracting success even from the people’s ruin.”
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A few years ago, Vladimir Putin opened a new memorial to the atrocities of the Stalin Era on the outskirts of Moscow. He said all the right words, as he did in 2018 on the 100th Anniversary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s birth. These events will be very hard to watch in the future if one has lived through these times. I write this on March 12, 2022.
Thank you, Ms. Applebaum.
"Sofia Petrovna" is a novel written during Stalin's Purge (in secret), I can't recommend it enough.
Anne Applebaum is one of my favorite American liberals. Very much a classical liberal.
"Only through history does a nation become completely conscious of itself.
Accordingly, history is to be regarded as the rational self-consciousness of the human race."
-Schopenhauer
The German philosopher Georg Hegel famously said, "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
Not true. The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken. The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of childcare, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorised and sexually abused.
I learn about this in high school history.
Why was this Gulag Archipelago completely ignored by our media, in the West?
Because the media in the west doesn’t want to highlight the atrocities committed by a regime that the elites in the west, the Wall Street and the media back then, supported. The NY Times Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Walter Duranty, who covered Stalin and the Soviet Union in the 1930s, denied the existence of the forced famine in Ukraine (the Holodomor, 1932-33).
Read Solzhenitsyn in the 70's when his work was new. Read Applebaum when it was new. I watch You Tube channels where Russians are recovering WWII artifacts more to help the families. The trauma was so bad there are those who have to justify they did to survive.
Applebaum claims that no one was exterminated in the Gulag camps and that a mere 25 million “went through” the Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn claimed that 66 million people were murdered, in the Gulag system. This is a huge discrepancy, which Applebaum does not clear up or even reference. Solzhenitsyn also describes the fate of “dangerous” intellectuals, who were sent to the uranium mines, with no protective clothes or gear, whatsoever. The healthiest individual could only be expected to last 18 months after being incarcerated in these camps.
Applebaum implied that Stalin only used firing squads to exterminate people. But I have learned from many sources that Stalin also sent brigades of murderers and rapists to target whole towns, which Stalin didn’t like for political reasons. The caveat was that no one should be allowed to survive these attacks. This tactic was employed by the Polish communists, during the Solidarity movement, to attack protesting students at universities. Violent criminals were let loose on the student body, of these protesting universities. This happened in the 1980s! Our media in the West, ignored this.
Applebaum also trivializes why less people were aware of these crimes against humanity, saying things like “people don’t really care about history.”
I am grateful to Anne Applebaum for at least bringing attention to these communist crimes but, I also get the feeling that she is softening the acuity of these atrocities.
Thankyou to Constanze Itzel, Joanna Urbanek & Anne Applebaum for all of this video. I am late in watching it, but the past historical events are even more pertinent now following the devastating invasion, with many civilian deaths, of Ukraine, causing millions of refugees! I wish that 16, 17 & 18 years of age english speaking school children could watch all of this. Thankyou again.
When she said she was offered the opportunity to buy an archive of a small prison camp, I thought at first someone offered to sell her the camp itself. Nothing in Russia would surprise me.
Applebaum starts at 4:31.
4:32 Applebaum finally gets to speak
This is a very good example of "Pics or it didn't happen" :/
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and understanding about certain events. What you noted about dehumanizing, minimizing others in order to carry out cruel and hateful crimes, is key to the numerous wars, conflicts throughout history. If you see any human being for what he or she is, then there would be a relation, not a conflict. I imagine sociopaths, which lack consciousness, are unable the have any empathy with another human being, thus, abuses, crime, wars and so on do occur. Lets face it, there are evil individuals who are the source of such abuses. On the other hand, Politics may be a subject to analyze - I see it as a world full of lies, treason only with the purpose to preserve power for a minority. Ukraine 2022, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libia, Kosovo, you name it; destruction of others preceded by numerous lies by a pretended 'more powerful country-USA'. Politics is a very dirty, corrupted subject and its results have damaged millions.
"An absence of public awareness" Thank God, something like that could never happen again.
I wish I shared your optimism, especially in light of current events.
A somewhat more detailed discussion of the demographic research used to arrive at an estimate of famine deaths between 3.5 and 4.5 million:
"In his 1946 survey, _The Population of the Soviet Union_, the demographer Frank Lorimer studied data from the Soviet census of 1925 and 1939 and all available information on fertility and mortality between these two dates. He calculated that what demographers call "excess deaths", that is, in Lorimer's method, a comparison of the reported total population in 1939 with the expected population at that date - given the count in 1925 and everything known about fertility, mortality and emigration between those years - amounted to somewhere between 4.5 million and 5 million, though this total included perhaps several hundred thousand emigrants, such as those Central Asian nomads moving into Sinkiang to avoid collectivisation."
"In their 1979 volume _How the Soviet Union is Governed_, Professors Jerry Hough and Merle Fainsod generally supported Lorimer's calculation and concluded that the more extreme western estimates 'cannot be sustained'. Rather, "a smaller - but still horrifying - number" of "maybe some 3.5 million" emerges as the direct or indirect result of collectivisation in the early 1930s."
Significantly, the figures pertain to famine deaths across the Russian, Kazakh, and Ukrainian SSRs, which undercuts the "genocide by famine" narrative focused on the Ukrainian SSR.
Ethnic hatred does, unfortunately, appear to have played a role in repressive Bolshevik policy going back to the days of the ChEKA revolutionary police. Friedrich Engels expressed his opinion of the teeming Russian masses when he wrote "Our task is not only the liquidation of reactionary classes but also reactionary peoples," referring to Orthodox Russian peasants with a traditional outlook (quote may be inexact). IMO the ethnic alienation and contempt with which a large portion of high-level Bolsheviks regarded the Russian population led to excesses up to some crimes against humanity (though not on the scale claimed by Cold War propagandists such as Robert Conquest). Trotskyists and other oh-so-pure Marxists with a death grip on the Russian Revolution as the model for "world revolution" find Stalin a convenient scapegoat for the Bolsheviks' record that reflected more structural and systemic issues among Bolshevik leaders in general. Stalin was a player in a game where the rule of brutality had been well established. We're a long way off from having an objective take on the strongly mixed bag of positives and negatives that constitute the multiple aspects of his record.
Dear Anne, I had read the Book by sulfonation
It sounds like she is describing contemporary America!
When Anna describes what Gulag prisoners were put to work on, it reminds me of the US prison system of today. Military helmets, number plates, etc.
They don`t have to do any of it if they don`t want to. They earn cigarette and candy money and they get paid.
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"Constitution of the Soviet Union did not prevent centralization of power. In one person or in one party. And when that happens the game is over" Antonin Scalia 3:30 th-cam.com/video/Ggz_gd--UO0/w-d-xo.html Question: Do we have centralization of power in Poland ?
Digging the grave of the accused before they're convicted.
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Mao is a exact replica of Stalin.
People will believe what they want in today's world regardless of proven facts from historical record. I just hope people's sense of humanity prevails to elect good leadership.
If you reject the truth how can anything you do be good.
... and it did happen again. Because we had refused to recognize the obvious signs that it was going to happen.
She is a genius. She is also up to no good, most likely. In 1932 and 1933, the United States should have set up food camps in every district of Ukraine, Japan, Africa and Asia. The average lawmaker of European national origin will want to feed Europeans. She should have set up many food camps in all places where there was hunger. Stalin wouldn't have stopped her. Action speaks for itself. She is up to no good.
What a great friend of Poland!!! Lots of Polish, including those of Hebrew faith, were taken to this inhuman land after the Bolsheviks invaded Poland in Sept 1939…
Whete's North Vietnam?
I've never heard of a Gulag denier (they weren't that bad, or that many put in them). Maybe somewhere on the fringes there are somewhere, but not many.
I would live to see her on a panel with Timothy Snyder
The return of the Evil Empire. Nothing less. Interesting literature on this subject is the book that Simon Sebag Montefiore wrote about Stalin, having plowed through the archives.
All the young people should know as soon as you hit 50 you become an expert in recent history!
Only if you've used your time to become educated on the subject, as Applebaum has.
Directly under U.S. aegis, Afghani “opium cultivation expanded from 8,000 hectares in 2001 to 224,000 hectares in 2020 …. responsible for more than 80 percent of global opium production” yet no drone strike targeting poppy fields was ever launched by NATO or the U.S. Bradley, J., “After the deadly error in Afghanistan, maybe drones shouldn’t be used to kill at all;" Mir, Hamid, “A flood of drugs from Afghanistan may become a bigger threat than terrorism;” WaPo 10-5.
Please, how do you know this? It is what I suspected but I didn't know where to find the information on the opium cultivation while the US was 'fighting' the Afghan war. And I'm guessing the Taliban will continue to grow it for $?
@@sherigraham3873 Mir, Hamid, “A flood of drugs from Afghanistan may become a bigger threat than terrorism;” WaPo 10-5
@@sherigraham3873 Hamid Mir, “A flood of drugs from Afghanistan may become a bigger threat than terrorism;” WaPo 10-5-21
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Did you not know that the intel community tapped into the poppy and was using it as a funding stream. Why do you think we were there so long.
At 34:14 minutes we hear the crux of her message and the lesson that needs to go out to the World... as she points out, this message is Nation and national history agnostic.
this is not enough, as whenever westerners (mostly through postmodernism) are doing that, for many decades now, reaction of putin and alikes always is: yes, you are all of that and much worse.
stalin is like hitler but it’s not yet considered like the nazi dictator…or nit enough, possibly cause stalin is one of the winner of the 2ww
God bless America and May she fly above the ignorant forever...... Boston. Mass.
Gulags are hard labor camps. Nazi war criminals were nearly always paid. Nazi war criminals were to stay a max of 10 years, max up to 1955. I ready that every year, starting from about 1946, while Stalin was still alive, about 10,000 Nazi POW prisoners were released every year. Early release was based of severity of crimes committed. Why East Germany was an ally of the Soviet Union, and had equal say on matters, such as POW release. Stalin : Nazi war criminals have relative and friends back in their home villages. I cannot allow death sentences on Nazi prisoner of war. Nazi wae criminals will work for any period between 1 year up to a max of 10 years.
I lived in Germany for many years. There are also examples of unfairness in modern german life, which hint at former unfair regimes.
In the East or the West?
@@johnleake5657 Both.
It is better to tall about the nazi Germany what was done to the Soviet Union. This woman is very prejudice
It is better to talk about the crime in Iraq
Stаy strong Ukrаine 👏💪🇺🇦🇵🇹 Google translate : After the 2nd World War, 10-million Belarus was missing about 3 million of its inhabitants, but about 2 million were killed even before the war by the communist NKVD. In Belarus, 70 percent of all Belarusian writers were physically destroyed, scientists and artists were killed. (The troupe of the Third Belarusian State Theater of Vladislav Golubok was arrested in its entirety. Almost everyone was shot.) They were killed on a national basis. For the sake of this, the label "Natsdem" was coined (it means national democrat, although such a party did not exist). This label was attached to all Belarusians whom the Stalinists planned to exterminate. In the bowels of the NKVD, a non-existent anti-communist organization SVB ("Union for the Liberation of Belarus") was invented. Under the invented phantom, the NKVD carried out arrests, conducted an imaginary investigation, interrogated, tortured, tried, then exiled to Russia and shot innocent people. After the Riga agreement in 1921, Belarus was divided between Poland and Russia. The dividing line was drawn near Mensk. There was a secret order from the NKVD to exterminate the entire Belarusian population along the border. Russian invaders wanted to make a deserted zone here. The destruction was carried out by border troops. Trusted persons were given a rifle and a shovel. When such a border guard met in a deserted place (on a road, in a field, in a forest) a lonely Belarusian or Belarusian, or a child, he shot a person, immediately dug a hole with a shovel and covered up the corpse.
That was the instruction. People in the villages were not so afraid of the "man with a gun" as they were of a soldier with a shovel. (These facts were published in the Belarusian press in the early 1990s.) In the 1930s, 95-99 percent (almost completely) were destroyed (exiled and shot) by the Belarusian communist-party and Soviet administration. They even destroyed the directorate and economic leaders. Russians from Russia were sent to the positions of murdered administrators and communist bosses-Belarusians. Russians (the so-called "nominees") came to Belarus, occupied vacant positions, received benefits, property, apartments, and the first thing they did was to close Belarusian schools, translate them into Russian, so that their children could study without burdening themselves with studying , as they said, "unnecessary" Belarusian language. Thus, the occupiers created a "Russian-speaking population" in Belarus. Ethnocide, linguacid, mnemacid and genocide were carried out by the Bolsheviks at the same time.
The destruction of Belarusians by the Russian NKVD continued during the German occupation. In June 1941, during the first days of the war, the communists shot thousands of prisoners in prisons and on stages. Only in the Brest Fortress, where there was a terrible prison of the NKVD, they did not have time to liquidate all those arrested, some of them fled. Meanwhile, a large group of overseers and functionaries of the NKVD was blocked in the fortress by the Germans. They sat there for about a month until they died out. About 20 years after the war, the communists came up with a legend about the "heroic defense" of the Brest Fortress. It is noteworthy that a broad Soviet partisan movement was organized only in Belarus and partly in the ethnic Belarusian lands that were part of Russia (Smolensk, Bryansk). There was no partisan movement in occupied Russia. Why? Yes, because the plan for the destruction of the Belarusian nation continued to operate. Moscow, using the organs of the NKVD, dragged the masses of the Belarusian civilian population into the war against the Germans, and thus exposed the Belarusians to the German attack.
The necessary work of struggle proceeded from an insidious plan and was carried out by vile methods. (Stalin wanted to get a double benefit.) The NKVD specifically killed a German near a Belarusian village or did some other provocation in order to provoke a punitive operation by the Nazis (who usually burned the entire village, most often along with the people). Thus, by the way, as a result of a special provocation by Soviet partisans, the famous Khatyn was also burned, which the communists then advertised to the whole world in the 70s as a typical victim of fascist atrocities.
As a result of such a communist-fascist joint "work", more than 9 thousand villages were burned in Belarus. Therefore, by the end of the war, as a result of a special operation of the NKVD, many Belarusian commanders were sent to death, removed from command, killed and repressed. Their places were taken by Russians sent from Moscow and loyal NKVDs. In the summer of 1944, when the "Red Army" occupied Belarus, the Russians mobilized into the army on Belarusian territory. Tens of thousands of young Belarusian men, almost without training, were thrown to the front line. Russian commanders raised them in unnecessary attacks under the fire of German machine guns, without even giving weapons to their hands, or with rifles, but without cartridges. They died by the thousands, like grass under a scythe. And those who fled back fell under the bullets of the NKVD "blockade detachments". However, detachments fired in the back. This is how the destruction of Belarusians in the war continued, by the hands of the Germans and Russians.
them at the same time. As the communists said, "in the struggle for the Soviet motherland." In the 1940s, the Russians took them to Siberia and tortured all the foresters and the so-called "kulaks" from Western Belarus there. They were taken out by wagons, in different rows.
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TO MITIGATE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR; NATO view on Black Sea strategically, should consider expanding to also include a Kurd state; Reduce Russian influence in Syria by partitioning Syria to form Kurdish state in North-West Syria. So, Russia's naval port becomes Kurdish. For this, a United Nations General Assembly resolution is enough! Synergistically, a Kurd state (eventually within NATO), will lower Turkish pressure from Kurds; facilitating FINLAND and SWEDEN joining NATO with Turkish support!!
This all is known already.
What about crime of USA. So bold and aggressive?
How about the crimes committed in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan?
Please Talk about the America crimes around the world.
please go ahead.
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Sounds like what is happening in the US today.
You are joking HaHa!
Granny Smith.
Forget what’s wrong with Solzhenitsyn…never mind.
For a journalist and writer of books you have a lot of support it seems. Always rather topical to the current need? Are you perhaps a neocon? Maybe not everyone needs changing. And it might go wrong…Just a thought.
Here the propaganda purpose of the youtube video maker is wrong. Nazis who had committed way too many atrocities:: 10 years of hard labor and release by 1955. 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. 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.
I would loved them discussing the crimes of Israel but I bet these people will turn a blind eye
Next lecture : Crimes of American neo cons
So how about modern jewish stalin Benjamin Netanyahu? or Madeleine K. Albright with million Iraqi kids??? Why dont talk about million muslims died in this freedom wars?
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You realise that this is propaganda?
How about how about. One evil does not justify another.
Literally everything America does.
Total bullshit,
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HI Anne...Smarts vs Muscle.... Muscle wins.
I’m curious about your opinion that Russia invaded Crimea. Here is a post I wrote that includes the subject of Crimea.
Were 1.6 million Ukrainian Jews murdered by Nazis in Ukraine during WWII? That would be a horrific war crime.
On another note, Russia has about 15 military bases outside its sovereign borders, correct?
The US has over 800 military bases outside its sovereign borders staffed by over 500,000 civilian and military personnel. No problem there.
And msm tells us that Russia is trying to take over the planet. 🤭
Doesn’t seem quite that simple. 🟢
Last time msm deceived us about Crimea so I’m not as ready to accept msm explanations this time without verifying from other sources… ✅
Has Ukraine really shelled the Donbass for eight years since the 2014 coup, killing about 14,000 people including many children? 🌍
May the Creator of the universe protect Ukrainian and Russian civilians from further harm… 😪
So whenever msm resurrects the “Russia invaded and annexed Crimea” narrative I resurrect my response...
History lesson: In 1783 Crimea became Russian. From 1805 to the present the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been based at Sevastopol, Crimea.
In 1954, a year after the horrific reign of Stalin ended with his death, the new Russian President Khrushchev decided to give Crimea to Ukraine, apparently surprising his advisors. He did keep the base at Sevastopol, however.
In 2014, after a Western-backed soft coup in Ukraine, the Russian population of Crimea called a referendum. The vote was 97% to rejoin Russia. Unlike Kosovo, not one shot was fired and no one died. And unlike Kosovo, which many Western leaders recognized immediately and fell over each other changing their maps to reflect the new reality, maps were not changed.
Someone responded to my comment by telling me that the UN had voted overwhelmingly not to recognize the Crimea referendum.
My response? “The British voted overwhelmingly not to recognize the American Declaration of Independence.”
That’s what I discovered about Crimea after the 2014 Western-backed soft coup.
I have friends in both countries, btw. May God protect them in this storm.
I pray that God will bless both Ukraine and the Russian Federation with peace and prosperity and an end to hostilities. ✅
Stalin died in 1953
Stop Stalin BS
And what of your own role as a peddler of lies?
I googled "the population of Ukraine 1925 to 1940" and found that the Ukraine population rose quite fast in the 1930s,from about 30 million in 1930 to over 41 million in 1940 this was far faster rate than Britains in the 1930s so it was a strange kind of Famine the Holodomor, writers should write about a population as it is not as it was expected to be .to say a population was expected to be 35 million but it was only 30 million so 5 million must have died or been executed is no way to relate History.
They replaced people (whom were up rooted, sent to the Gulag, exiled, starved, murdered etc.) with other people all over the Soviet Union, just like the ancient Assyrians.
Do you know that Stalin brought in people from other parts of Russia into Ukraine during this time? Alotta Russians too..You sound like a denier just like Neo-Naxis today!
A bit late to hold Stalin to account. Get a life
ana don't spread propaganda👎what are you woman talking about?????
which part is propaganda here? can you be more specific?
You must be a kremlin troll and a holodomor denier!
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