Gulag, the Story - Part 1(1918-1936) | FULL DOCUMENTARY
A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.
The history of the Gulag is long, complex and in many ways out of the ordinary. From the Revolution of 1917 to Gorbachev, touching on the civil war, the Great Terror, World War II, the Cold War and the death of Stalin, this series describes the workings of the Gulag.
How and why did the USSR create this system of forced-labour camps in which 20 million prisoners were exploited and worked to the bone?
Documentary: GULAG, THE STORY - Episode 1: From experimentation to setting up the forced labour system (1918-1936)
Directed by: Patrick Rotman
Production: KUIV Productions pour ARTE France
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This whole set of documentaries should be required watching for high school graduates as well as being tested on the subject!!!!!!
Should be required for college educators
And especially universities
This is Russian. I'm telling you, this channel is Russian. The way they say certain things are complete propaganda.
I watched an interview with a camp area supervisor (not sure of his title) in the 1970s or 80s. Interviewer asked if he had visited all of the camps and the supervisor chuckled. When asked what was funny about the question the supervisor stated, 'It would have taken several lifetimes for someone to visit every camp.'
You are referring to Danzig Baldaev, the camp supervisor and visual artist responsible for Drawings from the Gulag. He also documented prisoner tattoos.
@@olympicjbrag5913 Yes!! Thank you for that information. Now I can find it to watch again. It was fascinating.
My grandfather was supervisor in the Gulag in 1930s
In 1940, there were: - 50 correctional labor camps in the USSR (people are kept and work in prison). - 400 correctional labor colonies (people are imprisoned, but work in ordinary construction sites and factories) - 50 colonies for minors.
@@karlwalther Not even close. Even the Germans had 1000's of camps and we only know the names of the big ones.
This has happened enough throughout history that resisting government roundups should be a part of school curriculum.
You think these folk had the option to resist roundups? Can you even resist an arrest today? That's exactly how it happens.
I want to give u unlimeted likes💯
School is a government institution. You really think they're gonna teach kids how to overthrow the government?
But schools are run by government.
Yet when we see such regimes in fictional forms like movies, 99 out of a 100 of them involve right wing regimes.
Another hard one to watch, no matter how much your heart aches for these people, there is nothing that you can do to save them or offer help as they are all long dead now. People, unchecked, behave like brutes.
Human beings are gonna human being.
Past lives, anyone? Reincarnation, anyone?
blyat
@@user-mq6fu6ou4f Yep. Hear that.
@remington5978 There are currently more slaves today than during the entire east African slave trade, come to new Zealand Cuzzies, we wont treat you this way, if you can get here. We got love for everyone.
A very rare film material, never seen before. . An interesting document. Thank's a lot for this 👍
Thank you so much for watching!
Ive seen this documentary before. The best documentary on the Gulags anywhere.
I believe it's from France. There are few docs from France on KZhead and they very good.
Thank you so much!!
@@jabom99 can you mention others you know please?
Find watch and share a documentary called Europa the last battle.
Don't watch that europa shit, lies
If you want a full experience, read Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Soljenitsyne
@@bricedesmaures2005wrong .😅
You butchered the last name
Thank you so much Dear ❤
@@junglesuperstar9270 So tell us right name ...
Thank you for this documentary!
Thank you for watching!!
Backwards then and Backwards now still no progress in these countries
Evil can only exist when good people do nothing.
Applicable to literally everything including the US
Thank you.
Nick u sound like a wise old monk that has seen alot
There's a whole lot of good people doing nothing at all today.
@@beavs1516it’s in the Bible
Everyone needs to watch this when they think their lives are so bad.
And laugh at the "oppressed" in the USA and UK
Suffering is subjective. While I agree with your statement 💯 My husband of 24 years passed 9 months ago, I would rather live in poverty and a camp than luxury without him.
@@Jennifer-ql5qf I'm so sorry for your loss, and you're correct, everything is subjective when it comes to suffering. I hope you understood my context, not comparing it to being tortured, but I meant in everyday living, where you think you have it bad. You could be not living
That's stupid. Not being enslaved doesn't mean one's life is easy. A social worker once yelled at me that I have nothing to complain about and that her life was difficult in socialist Poland. It was such a dumb comment I feel second-hand embarrassment. If the country doesn't oppress you, there are still lots of people who will.
WHERE ARE THE SUBTITLES? we are missing a big part of the story.
. .or The First Circle by same author. It remains one of my favourite books of all time. Beautifully constructed, compelling and deeply moving.
Hope you have the other two also.i wait to watch them together❤
yes we do, they're coming up in the weeks to come!
It would help to have subtitles considering few of us speak Russian
What a coincidence, Exactly in 1938, France released the last German prisoner of war. After 20 years. The last of 6 million Germans who were unjustly forced to perform forced labor in France
Almost like Germany invaded and pillaged France
Yea. That actually happened though. Unlike the gorilian
They were released in 1948 & 1949!
So sad to see the atrocious things we humans do to each other.
Power drunk individuals ..power ,greed, vileness.all,the qualifications they need to enforce their regime.
And it doesn't stop. Still the same problems, the same lunatics in charge. What does it tell us? That it won't change. Ever. Something seriously radical needs 2 happen 2 change the way the human race acts. I for 1 can't wait 2 see that change. Even if it would cost me my life, I want the world 2 be so different. The way people act towards each other, the way governments act, it makes me sick. Greed and selfishness, power hungry madmen, psychopathic leaders. I mean what the living hell is going on? Who out there thinks the world is in harmony? With each other and with mother Earth? Yea exactly. Nobody.
Governments do to their people
Good documentary 👍
Thank you!
Adding to my previous comments(see above), in the West, additionally to the items mentioned previously, in my experience in mining, tunnelling, oil rigs, heated, airconditioned free rooms are provided for jobs in far- off places. Also, free food, various, of good quality is provided, as much as one can eat. When these items, in addition to those mentioned in the other comments section are in place, then people can work without becoming sick, on a good wage, and survive normally whilst doing the construction, etc., for a few years.
Back in the 1970s I worked with a German colleague who had been imprisoned in the Gulag system from 1945 through 1953, I lent him the book "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisonovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, when he returned the book his comment was " Every word in that book is true". R I P Herman Ziegler.
Why isn't 1984 required reading anymore? Also the gulag archipelagos changed my life. I never bought the idea that marxism, socialism, and communism were anywhere near good. But it gave me perspective on how they got there along with how bad it can actually get.
It’s hard to understand how stuff like this could ever happen
The events of 2020 and onwards showed how easily normal rational people can change very quickly. Fear has always been and will always be the most effective way to control people, and to get them to commit heinous crimes they would never commit under normal circumstances.
It will come to America one day too …. Tic toc tic toc
It still happens while the world sit back and does nothing
No, it isn't.
You can experience it in real time now.
What a documentary 😮 when is part 2???
Right here: kzhead.info/sun/i9CipLptgYd9rGw/bejne.html and part 3 is to come ;)
@@SLICE_Full_Doc These gulag survivors who you feature, look incredible considering. Particularly that man who was there for 27 years? Are they actually the survivors of it? Wouldn't they be very old by now, or are these interviews a few years old now, perhaps? The music throughout is excellent. It has such a depth to it.
Great video! But the music was a little too loud on this one and hard to hear the narrator.
So many mentioned that compared to Vladimir Lenin that Joseph Stalin was a teddy bear, but I don’t believe that at all, and I think that death of Stalin was much worse but it’s just that Vladimir Lenin was a revolutionary and less of a statesman. Joseph Stalin was a little bit more statesman, like even though he was a thug. All of those Bolsheviks were brutes
Stalin was a GIANT of his time. Joseph Stalin lived in a historical era, where the world required strong leadership. So, he had to be an energetic, severe leader. Imposing! Or, otherwise, “Mother Russia” would have disappeared from the map. Stalin was what he had to be: A Great Leader. A Great Statesman. Stalin inherited a barren, rural, forgotten country, illiterate, hungry, superstitious, lacking everything and, to make matters worse, helpless until eviction. Stalin turned it into an industrialized and powerful superpower, which made the world tremble. Russia was 100 years behind the West and, once the precariousness and devastation caused by the War had been overcome, he, Stalin, the “Founder of the USSR”, launched the world's first Aero-Space Program. Stalin received a Russia that was at war for almost 30 years. (Starting with the humiliating defeat against the Empire of Japan, 1904-1905. Russian Revolution, 1905. WWI, 1914-1918. Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1922. Civil War against the “White Russians”, 1922-1927. WWII 1940-1945… Plus the Pandemic of the so-called “Spanish Fever”, 1918-1920. And, plus the “Wall Street Financial Crash”, from 1929-1937). In other words, Stalin assumed power in a country hit by wars, sickened by the Pandemic and economically bankrupt by the world crisis. These calamities left Russia dispossessed and miserable. Stalin rescued her by imposing discipline and work. Stalin was great; magnificent, highly cultured and astute. He was a Titan with an iron fist. Loved by his people and feared by his enemies. It has been more than 70 years since Stalin died, and Western Propaganda doesn't stop vilifying him. For what purpose? What would be its use now? .
Yeah look how he treated his own son, that says it all
@@salvadorvizcarra769👍🤝✌
And those Bolsheviks were mostly Jews.
@@ninjawizard3865No matter what you watch or read, there is always an anti-semite that crawls out if the woodwork.
great doc, but audio mixing is a little off
You think your life's hard until you see how Brutal they poor souls were worked no wonder many prayed for death 💔
How much has the Russian people suffered. And it continues now with Putin.
This is an excellent video. Should be required viewing in schools Instead of rainbows
Both are evil. One is communism the other is fascism.
Should be required viewing in Russia but we know that will never happen as they omitted this tragedy to their own people from the history books
Reality, facts, truths, and actual history aren't part of curriculum anymore unfortunately. Indoctrination to totalitarian liberalism and all of it's mental illnesses is the push these days.
It was their own choice for the reign of terror but no one found any profit of it, honesty is more important. So much is still left in this documentary like the pogroms after the extinction of the traveling gypsy. Germany followed adopting the same methodical system. Still the people of this world are like that prepared to lie out of shame loosing their name, it was all a word game. This world has all the potential to a better future and still they make war while the history is not to visit.
Kruschev and others feared to talk. They condemned Stalin the dead. When someone heckled him. He roared ' Who said that' total silence. Kruscheve then said . That is why we dared not oppose Stalin. 48 rules of power. The name and God of this system of things is called FEAR OF DEATH.
What's wrong with Russian gov't? Why is the gov't so crazy?
What's the music at the start
Well made documentary. The map of the USSR is wrong however, seems to only include Russia. And the mention in passing that five million people were starved to death, as if by accident, mostly in Ukraine, and then to move on is kinda weird.
25:21 David Lynch. 😅 He took a time machine out of there asap.
"They moved from house to house and took everything, up to the last seed." - Russian Peasant Farmer, under Stalin
He starved millions to death on purpose
Would be nice to have a documentary about the concentration camps that Winston Churchill built in Kenya and the colonies.
That would be indeed, thanks for the idea!
7:34 Correction: Che-Ka rather means “emergency committee”, not “extraordinary commission”
I know a couple former u.s politicians who should be there. Thanks for sharing.
Former?
@@geraldek4948yes, trump.
Then how are you different from what those communists who did those horrible things in my country that documentary show? No matter how much you don’t like your political opponents, if you wish them to be in that camp, you are as evil as those who created those camps.
Not all people are equal. And the gulag is the logical consequence of trying to build an utopia that defies this fact. When you want to make everyone equal, sooner or later you will have to use force.
Is it available in french?
Winter has 12 months the rest is summer.
WHO CAN TELL ME THE MUSIC AT 1:53????.
At list six hundred years before the revolution, the monasteries in Russia served also as prisons. @2:08 The prison on the Sovetesky island wasn't the idea of the Bolsheviks, it was established in 15-th century, at the same time when the monastery was build. Ivan Terrible would set to that monastery prison, some of his lucky opponents.
Incredible footage! So much work must have gone in to collating it all. Putin is gleefully turning the clock back to those days.
Your a bonehead
We could do them the honour of not repeating this kind of behavior. Leaders in this world will have a special place in hell. I will be praying that they meet the right shepherd once life is done with us.
My grate grandfather spent 15 years in the gulag 😳
The fate of Nalvany shows that nothing has changed 🫠
Navalny was a CIA plant whose only backers in Russia were Paid Stooges of the CIA.
LOWER THE MUSIC PLEASE!!!
Russia hasn't changed since the first czar Never will
You’ve never been to Russia and you never will ….. so what exactly do you know ?
The Future of America
Considering that we have more people in prison per capita and sheer numbers than any other nation on earth, I'd say we're well on our way. Land of the free??
Nice to find a doc that has evaded yt's ham-fisted censorship.
25:27 It's like watching 1984.
Russia has and treats their citizen like crap, disgusting. My family is from Lithuania and they lived under Russia regime, disgusting, horrific but they luckily excaped to Germany in the early 1900..the stories are are heart wrenching
The slaves of XX. century, the slaves of socialism. 😢
Still open today.
Why have we grown up seeing movies about Holocaust in TV, and hardly anybody knows about Gulag or Holodomor ? Have we been manipulated, have we got a kind of indocrination, according to which there are second and third class victims ?
Probably the large amount of marxist /leninist ideology in modern western schools.
Good observation. USA and England enabled not only Stalin victory in WW2 but also the multiple millions of rapes at the end of the war. At least 2 million German women and children alone were brutally gang raped, some 60-70 times, ages 8-80. This can be found even on Google. Poland and Baltics as well, surviving men taken to Gulags.
A lot of archives about all these events stayed locked under secrecy status under the soviet regime. With its collapse, historians have been able to study those starting the turn of the century, and a few archives have only been declassified in 2018. It explains that.
@@SLICE_Full_DocHolodomor was known for 90 years and nobody cared about it. katyn massacre was know for tens of years and nobody cared about it. gulags was know for hundred years and nobody cared about because rotten west was happy with ruSSofascist regime!
Yes.
And yet even today they long for the Soviet
As if 144 million Russians agree on the same thing.
@@PerJustert they certainly dip the propaganda their fed. Period.
8:56 interesting 🤔
Unbelievable
24:00 there are long sections of Russian language with no subtitles. Why?
Too lazy to include the captions from the original. Pirates.
@@user-xm4ep1rl1j Thanks. Do you know the original source?
@@Chainsaw-ASMR Just what it says: "Documentary: GULAG, THE STORY - Episode 1: From experimentation to setting up the forced labour system (1918-1936) Directed by: Patrick Rotman Production: KUIV Productions pour ARTE France"
We own the AVOD diffusion rights for this series, not putting subtitles was a production choice. It is always nice to see our work valued :)
@@SLICE_Full_Doc Just another sarcastic prick. Shame, boy.
Well, it was a dictatorship of the proletariat, after all. This is exactly what they said they were, right from the very outset.
Cool & Normal!
That narrator sounds like she's narrating a day in the life of a cake shop, not one of the biggest terrors in history.
Whos the guy with glasses on the end at 21:50
Mikhail kalinin
@@shable1436 thank you, I keep seeing him pop up in soviet documentaries and didn't know who he was
@@joeygrim0654 same ppl in Stalin inner circle, wasn't hard to find
Music too loud unfortunately
We Humans tend to do the worst to our own....May we never forget....
🐕💚🍕we all know that history repeats itself so get ready cause this is going to be a doozy 🎉🎉🎉
Yeah sorry waaaay too many ads
How on earth did these men or women, survive Kolymer. Incredibly sad.
When is part 2 coming out?
it is right here: kzhead.info/sun/i9CipLptgYd9rGw/bejne.html and part 3 to come in a few days!
@@SLICE_Full_Doc you guys are the best!
part 2?
in a few days now!
Solovki was used by Rissia back in the 18th century and after for anyone not liked by the authorities, often anyone with thoughts of freedom, human rights and the like. And so to this day. Slave labour, atrocious, unsafe working and living conditions, malnutrition, bad stuff. Therefore the high casualty rate. Those sort of jobs can be done properly....8 hour or so working days, safety equipment, tools machines, humane living conditions, above normal wages. For maybe 2 to 5 years. Remote distance living allowance, bonuses, free meals, free accomodation, approved washing, showering, toilet, laundry facilities, recreational facilities and other necessary needs catered for, medical, for example. A reason why those essentials were inadequate was probably because the Russian leaders had never touched a shovel in their hands and knew nothing, and therefore didn't give a stuff. Similarly, Russia fought its wars, as it is doing now during the illegal invasion of Ukraine, using human meat waves. Again, from its leadership, whereby people come last. The video shows many zeks. I wonder how many of rhem were Ukrainians, since I have read that 60%+ of zeks were Ukrainians. That makes sense since Russia, since 350 years ago, has been trying to bury, denationalise Ukraine and Ukrainians. I have also read about that Frenkel mentioned in the video. According to him, if a zek could last 3 months before expiring, the gulag system could be maintained. He convinced Stalin with this theory. Whenever dad saw Stalin on TV, he would cal him a 'son of a bitch'! Also, as in the video, in some place in Siberia, the Komi or Kolyma regions, during a spring thaw, a whole hillside uncovered multiple corpses of zeks. An eyewitness account portrays a burial procedure of a deceased zeks whereby a nude corpse is carted to a bog and unceremoniously thrown in the mud and observed to sink out of sight. Such were the burials, apparently. Those people cheering the party hacks were(and probably are now, the present ones) either duped with propaganda or rotten types themselves. Those 'kulaks' and many others, most even, convicted and sent to the gulags were probably innocent mostly. Those Kremlin gremlins, past and present, their lackeys, and many Russians, are the ones that should have been in the gulags before anyone else. Although, some Russians suffered, mostly it was Ukrainians and other minorities. In the present illegal invasion of Ukraine, I would not trust Putin and his hacks, nor 80% of Russians. If Russia was having more success in the illegal invasion, those 80% would be praising their scoundrel leaders.
24:16 what are they saying? Why isn't this party translated?
Because she literally explains what is happening you don't need to see subtitles of each one confessing to bogus charges as she states
Doesn't loo like we've come that far does it. Not just Russia.
Not much different to Australia back then. In 1918 there were 10 concentration camps for people of German or Austrian background and those of other ethnicities who lived in the Austrian Hungarian Empire. The British were sending people from all over Asia (ex German colonies) to those camps. Even those who were born in Australia and had German parents. The conditions were awful. Norwegian and Swiss ambassadors tried to intervene on few occassions. The British-Australian soldiers treated these prisoners as bad as the Aboriginals. Bayonetting was common, stealing from them too, raping etc. One could write a letter - but only in the English language. Most were never sent though. You won't find any memorials in those places today commemorating the victims. No trace is left.
None of the facts you've pointed out are correct, just a word sandwich of twisted facts turned into non-fiction nonsense. Reported as such. Have a nice day. Cioa.
@@88njtrigg88 dig deeper and you will find it. Not with your spade 🤣
Never change ?
Rusija izgrađena na leđima svoga naroda,a zapad na leđima kolonijalnih naroda Ne zna se što je gore
Both are horrible
Its gone full circle foor the farmers today
The background music drowns out the dialog
It’s free ..
Communism organized by certain Bourgeois minds as a (political, economy, and social ideology and way of life)for worker classes and peasants interesting (as they proclaimed)..when communist politicians organized( Communism regimes) those regimes committed width Peasants annihilation and ultra exploiting and prosecutions of workers
So very sad
It was all about slavery.
🤡 ninjas?
After watching this I have no complaints!!! How on earth could the Russian people allow this inhumanity and continue for so long? Here in the west there's a riot if a prisoners don't get there mouthy phone cards,😅
It's called human rights, you know the ones we are born with under our constitution
Isn’t it about time the Gulag was given the publicity it deserves? Isn’t it about time the BBC, PBS America, and Channel 4, for instance, started informing the public of this monumental crime against humanity perpetrated by Communist Russia?
Could you make video about usa concentration camps of American native japanese locked up in ww2 as usa government considered them enemies?
The Japanese treated any westerner in pow camps far worse..war is hell for the innocent
this would be a very interesting subject indeed!
Found the Russian.
people die and they make a soundtrack to it
You should do one on the country with the worlds largest population of incarcerated people ie America
There's a difference between political prisoners and criminals. We didn't have political prisoners until after January 6th. We have so many incarcerated criminals because we have a significant population that has no qualms about breaking the law.
you sir are completely brain dead Dead from the neck up
@@tc556guyor our laws are too strict for the population you're referring to.
If that demographic has problems following the laws then that's on them.
She said the Bolsheviks were the minority so resorted to violence. Bolshevik means majority, right? Wtf?
Who (men) in their right mind would go to such an event! I have actually changed churches when i have been constantly pressured into singles groups. Was also told, even by the pastor that i need to meet this or that single woman. I don't go to church to mingle with singles. Going to a singles event would make me feel like a moving target. A piece of meat being evaluated and studied from every angle. No thanks! I am single and happy to be single. No drama or relationship stress!
Germany called Russia's presence at events marking the 79th anniversary of the liberation of concentration camp prisoners undesirable Germany called Russia's presence at events to liberate concentration camp prisoners undesirable (C) 1944 History is cyclical.
I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN SUFFER THIS. STAND UP WESTERN MEN OR THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU!
Misunderstood maybe, hardly unknown.
If only someone tried to liberate them, or at least tried.
The voice of the narrator doesn't fit at all with the content of this documentary
To this day I do not understand why people choose to live in this God forgiving country Russia, it sucks to its very core
Do you mean godforsaken country?
Its not so bad there now days, but of course you dont understand anything listening to your west propaganda. All country's have done very bad things in the past.
@@jabom99 Do you mean god forsaken country?
@@TheWorld4all check a dictionary. it's one word.
I understand but I think the buildings in Moscow are beautiful and they are saying that, but I wouldn’t visit there because there’s an American I would definitely be arrested just for being American. Some Americans who moved over there years ago have KZhead channels like some people who live in communist China and they talk about how nice it is yada yada but I would never ever ever go anywhere near Communist, China and if I had to choose between the two, I would at least visit Russia just to see Moscow but I would never ever ever dare go anywhere near China because those people hate Americans and they’re extremely racist and to the point they think nearly all white people that go to China are Americans and they will spit on them. It depends on the location, but the people who live out in the country and the farmers are super nice people and they’ve never seen a foreigner and they love to meet people from different areas because there in three with people who are white and black Middle Eastern and they always want to take a selfie photo with people. Those only are probably about 400 million in China and the other billion live in the city and it just depends on where they live.
People ask me why i don't want to have kids.this is one.
FBI checka same thing got it
the music and soundtrack are insensitive and not appropriate to the subject matter, just awfull
This is just modified anti Soviet propaganda