The Soviet GULAG was worse than you thought

The Gulag was a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union.
The internment system grew rapidly, reaching a population of 1.5 million by the end of 1940. The consensus among scholars is that, of the 14 million prisoners who passed through Gulag camps , roughly 1.5 to 1.7 million perished there or died soon after their release.

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[bobross]

Show this video to the warzone player who say they could survive in the gulag in real life

[jamsam]

"Could you survive a gulag???"

Listen buddy I can barely survive modern society

[Abbadonum]

I'm from Estonia, my grandpa spent 8 years in gulag too, he told his story how one person ate bread and died, because he hadn't eaten nothing in long time

[KardioIzletmetovic]

Fun fact: the concept of gulags(yes there is a plural) was actually invented by Trotsky, though Stalin was the one that enforced the concept.

[uberfeel]

Read 200 years together, that book is very eye opening.

[VivanSP]

I've read in school “7000 days in Siberia” by Karlo Stajner. He was arrested cuz he was from Austria and Stalin thought he was working for Gestapo…

[walrus]

Remember
Step 1:
Secure the Keys
Step 2:
Ascend from Darkness
Step 3:
Rain Fire
Step 4:
Unleash the horde
Step 5:
Skewer the Winged beast
Step 6:
Wield the Fist of Iron
Step 7:
Rain Hell
Step 8:
Freedom

[OtherWorldlyHistory]

Oh, and one thing you might not know…
Contrary to popular belief, each camp had its own name, since GULAG was just the name for the system of forced labor camps.
So since there’s no plural for GULAG, you can’t actually be sent to “A” specific GULAG. Although you can still be sent to “THE” GULAG.
Have I said the word GULAG enough times yet?
No?
GULAG.

[ppbob]

“you’re in the gulag, fight for redeployment”

[astrelixx]

My family is from the Soviet Union, and when I was in Ukraine my grandpa told me a story about his dad. Let’s call the dad Anatoli. Anatoli was accused of burning down a forest with his friend, but he didn’t do it. Anatoli and his friend were both tortured to try to confess that they did it by the officers. Basically, if they confess, they die. If they don’t confess, they get tortured more and more. One of the torture methods was slamming a door on the fingers. For example, the officer could ask “Did you do it” and if you said no, they would slam the door on your fingers as hard as they could. Eventually, Anatoli’s friend said that he did it, even though it was not true, just to get out of the torture. He was shot to death. Anatoli never confessed however, and the officers tortured him more and more. The worst torture was a small room. And not like a bathroom or a pantry sized room. Its a tiny room, like the area of a computer. You couldn’t even sit down. You could only stand up. Anatoli endured this for 6 months before the officers took him to the Gulag in Siberia for 8 years until finally, the officers found out that he was innocent, and released him.

[randied]

CoD players: gulag? That's easy. We just do 1 v 1 gunfights and win
Gulag survivors: are you sure about that?

[mvximus]

My friends grandpa was unfortunately killed in one of the gulags, he's a great friend and moved to the U.S from Russia a couple years ago

[RpVane]

Currently reading Kolyma: The Arctic Death camp by Robert Conquest. The camps were there to work them to death. There was like a schedule for how long prisoners were to survive. If they survived to long its was seen as further crimes cause they "mustn't have been working hard enough" or must have been stealing food from the state.

[salmanhassan]

"Great video comrade, you have been chosen for a free trip to Siberia" -Joseph Stalin

[StangaSausage]

It's hard to picture writing a letter and then being thrown in the gulag for nearly a decade because of a snippy comment or two in it somehow becoming known to the police. Such a surreal series of events.

[throatpunch]

Yet college kids wear stalin shirts SMH....

[dillonventola]

Actually most didn't have fences or barbed wire, it was so unlikely for someone to survive escape that they didn't bother with it. Pretty wild that gulag is safer than Siberia.

[JBMSTRIKER]

We have these in the United States called Chain gangs and underground prisons. We have political prisoners there to.

[theemperorschosen]

"Step 8 Reznov! Freedom!"

"For you Mason, not for me!"

[davidshastitko]

My grandpa survived 9 years in the Gulag, mostly because he knew carpentry