What Punishment was Like in the Gulags

Between 1930 and 1953, according to NKVD’s own reports, more than a million and six hundred thousand people perished in Soviet labor camps more commonly known as the Gulags. Consequently, these were also the years when Joseph Stalin ruled the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics also known as the Soviet Union with an iron fist.
His reign of terror wasn’t just about taking people’s lives but doing it slowly, perversely, and as excruciatingly as possible.

Welcome to Nutty History, and today let’s find out what punishment methods were employed by Joseph Stalin’s regime.

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Chapter Timestamps
0:00 Intro to mid-roll ads
0:34 Death by Ice and Fiery… Wee?
2:21 The Inhuman Laws of Soviet Humanism
4:20 To Get a Confession!
6:03 Objectification of Women
7:41 Forget Sleep, Forget Food

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[chastitybooker]

How can people be so horrible to other humans? This makes my stomach feel sick

[tuvia]

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, wrote at length about this in his 1973 book "The Gulag Archipelago". Quite a disturbing read.

[funningames]

HOW IT REALLY WAS! A gulag is a prison work camp and there were a lot of them. Dehumsnization began as soon as were picked up. You could spend months being "interviewed" (tortured & forced to confess and make false allegations against friends, family members and aquaintences) at huge interrogation centers. Then some people were actually marched to the gulag, some of which were in the far reaches of Siberia. But, after arrests got into full swing, the accused (and always found guilty) were transported by dilapidated cattle cars... standing room only and the facilities consisted of a hole in the floor.

During and especially after Russia's war effort, most of the time soldiers and especially Russian appointed spies were processed and apprehended just behind the front lines and sent directly to the gulags.

Daily rations were about 3 to 4 pieces of bread or some trashy bowl of soup made from various things... like rotten fish heads.

As was told in the video, seriously hardened career criminals were always given infinitely lighter sentences than political prisoners, got special treatment and spent most of their time not working but rather being "stoolies" or "stool pigeons ". This special relationship between stooges and prison officials went on for over 4 decades. Ultimately, the tables did turn though.

The audio book "The Gulag Archipelago " is essentially a journal of personal experiences written about the gulags. The author included his own story, other second and third hand stories as well as letting other prisoners write their own stories about this time period mostly in prison, but also some stories about getting put into prison and few releases. Here on YouTube the audio book is OVER 70 hours long and well worth the time. If you're ever feeling sorry for yourself, depressed, or frustrated about society or your situation, this will make you thankful for your worst day or worst decades. This video and my comments don't come close to depicting the heart break, torture, and pure disdain for human life that is possible. The book does this and more.... in spades. And just enough heartwarming tales to make the contrasts that much more effective. Spoiler alert real life characters that you grow to love will triumph, and then get caught, get tortured, escape again, repeat, and die in prison. At the least, your mind will gasp, laugh and cry.

Besides all of that, it is Uber interesting to see how political prisoners turned the tables on the stoolies. There are to many reasons that the author received The Nobel Peace Prize for the book, "The Gulag Archipelago".

Awesomely narrated as well. If you listen once, you will listen twice.

Apparently, this was Stalin's plan to build Russia by using human lives instead of tax money. And as cheaply as possible. People were also arrested and put in prison just so government elites could "aquire" their wealth, and in some cases, "aquire" someone else's wife.

[BlackFlash]

Has there ever been a time of happiness in this country? Main objective of being born in Russia is getting the hell out of there lol

[zachstaats]

And as horrible as the gulags were, the imprisonment of landowners and farmers in Ukraine played a major role in the upcoming food shortages that led to tens of millions of people starving to death. I forget who it was that said it, but the best summation of Stalin's cruelty I've heard is that he wasn't the type of tyrant that ordered immediate executions, but he would sign orders or legislation with full knowledge that they would result in massive injustices and horrors that would make serial killers blush.

[RocknRollAddicts]

Yes!!! I would love if you guys did more videos on this particular topic.

[daniellewillis]

You left out the cannibalism. EVERYBODY knows you never leave out the cannibalism ..

[time]

these are the people that tell us Hitler was bad

[TheNetymags]

This is still going on. Not in the past tense at all

[crazyharry]

Hi, would you be able to do a story on PolPot? The amount of his own people killed while he was in power is right up there with Stalin and the Chinese. Cheers and keep up the great work :)

[malikyuhanna]

I love how Nutty History, always cracks the unknown shell's, of the past

[youngmasterzhi]

2:09 For those wondering, that’s actually an image of an escaped gulag prisoner stabbing a “calf” (extra prisoner brought in as an “extra food source” to survive the Siberian wilderness)

[omnivorous]

To imagine that Putin considers the historical end of this abomination a great tragedy is all you need to know about the man.

[grufscruf]

Am I the only one mentioning the video is empty at the end for awhile. I thought youtube was broken. Great video content wise indeed

[jackiereynolds]

Never insult an animal.
Animals do not behave this way.
"You are behaving just like an animal" -
is never indicative of this human behavior.
Animals do not behave like this.
Evil being the hallmark of meaning -
the human being is grossly less than any animal.

[ivanchato]

I can see why the Russian mafia HATES any one who worked with authorities

[nabilhussein]

This is really hectic to learn about such human suffering

[smacpost]

Thank you, well done. Great pictures.

[pimslickins]

It was closer to TWENTY million people that were placed in Stalin's camps. Twenty million.

[HistoryfortheAges]

You would be amazed how many students I have had who never even heard the word Gulag before they took my course.