Thanks. That was really disturbing. But an important document.

Here’s a good song about Stalin’s treatment of Russian war hero’s Red Army Blues - Waterboys kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g6-Dasic3uCUqHU.html 🐉

A song about Stalin’s treatment of Russian war hero’s Red Army Blues - Waterboys When I left my home and my family My mother said to me "Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts It's how many people you set free!" So I packed my bags Brushed my cap Walked out into the world Seventeen years old Never kissed a girl Took the train to Voronezh That was as far as it would go Changed my sacks for a uniform Bit my lip against the snow I prayed for mother Russia In the summer of '43 And as we drove the Germans back I really believed That God was listening to me We howled into Berlin Tore the smoking buildings down Raised the red flag high Burnt the reichstag brown I saw my first American And he looked a lot like me He had the same kinda farmer's face Said he'd come from some place called Hazzard, Tennessee Then the war was over My discharge papers came Me and twenty hundred others Went to Stettiner for the train Kiev! said the commissar From there your own way home But I never got to Kiev We never came by home Train went north to the Taiga We were stripped and marched in file Up the great siberian road For miles and miles and miles and miles Dressed in stripes and tatters In a gulag left to die All because Comrade Stalin was scared that We'd become too westernized! Used to love my country Used to be so young Used to believe that life was The best song ever sung I would have died for my country In 1945 But now only one thing remains But now only one thing remains But now only one thing remains But now only one thing remains The brute will to survive ... 🐉

Your intro was comedy gold. Sad, but funny !!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Gulag Archipelago

yeah I just saw that scene and was thinking the same

Was thinking the same

Sometimes people make mistakes. I'm making more 'stupid' mistakes because I'm getting older.

Maybe she meant 17, old people tend to misspeak

Why u gotta think everything’s a lie

However small they may be ...

they way much better then germans

@@adah254 ?

my granddad lives through tzar times, then soviet, then modern Russia, can u image that?

@@justthesun I bet he has a lot of wonderful memories and stories to tell. i could listen to stories from someone like him for hours and hours.

@@justthesun how old is he?

В России донос, на западе гражданская позиция. Двойные стандарты, товарищи либералы.

@@yowussap1661 не понимаю, что вы пытаетесь сказать. Неужели вы хотите сравнить репрессии при Сталине с чем-нибудь западным? Не читали "Дети Арбата"?

@@ralfimuller8948 большенство репрессий это либеральные сказки. А так я очень интересуюсь историй западных стран. Скажите пожалуйста, что было с японцами которые проживали на территории США в период войны? Нигде не могу найти информацию, но очень интересно.

@@yowussap1661 double standards. XD so called liberation of Poland and 1,5 mln innocent polish citizens sent to Siberia, 20 thousands of elite killed in Katyń, Underground Army which fought against nazis was hunted down, tortured and killed. Few hundred thousands people died during Uprising in Warsaw though red army was near by city, on the 2nd side of Vistula river. Not to mention about special polish operation of nkvd before war. Communism installed by force and falsified voting. No Marschal plan, no free market for 50 years.

@@yowussap1661 А ето почему Сталин был хороший человек или что? Что хотите здесь? 500.000 Немцы которые жили в СССР умер под режим Сталина. Мои бабушки и дедушки мне рассказали, как ето было. Мой бабушка любила жить в СССР раньше, а не под режим Сталина.

@@tpynegar01 Russia has been a police state focused on expansion from the very beginning (like pretty much every major european state back then). We only experienced democracy in short period between 1905 and 1917. That was not the best moment for implementing democratic institutions to say the least, but Nicholas II lacked analytical mind and vitality to find a compromise with a growing demand for political liberalization and the state collapsed. Second try was in the beginning of Yeltsin's rule (1991), but it ended in 1993 when Yeltsin ordered army to bomb it out alongside with an independent parliament. It's not about Stalin or Putin, we are just not used to democracy itself yet, most people don't feel in charge and don't believe in effectiveness of protests, as they had always been brutally put down.

Я сейчас как раз читаю книгу на эту тему, может вас заинтересует, называется "Неудобное прошлое"

Бл(яяяяяяяяяяяяяяяяя. Капец. От таких «психологов» у нас все бедыЯ

​@@tpynegar01 что за чушь?

@@tpynegar01 привет тролль амерский, так и быть отвечу тебе ещё раз, чтобы хватило на дозу героина и поездку до Филадельфии. Удачной поездки:)

What's that? KZfaq found a new way to make money?

Thank you Dan!

Nope, there’s enough pain already! Enough holding on to dark past. If you cared about Russians, you’d recommend them to move forward. Enough fuсking nasty darkness in that place, can’t you see? Look at the war?! Putin is holding on to the past. It’s a BAD idea. Learn from the past and MOVE ON!

@@mikenoneofyourbusiness7122 History is very important and we need to preserve it

What a story. I'm glad your great grandfather survived, but so sad to think of the many who didn't. And now you have Putin throwing people's lives away for his ego. I hope Russia can get better for its people soon.

China is full of stories like that too (if anyone is brave enough to relate them).

"There are some people idealizing Stalin nowadays" If you don't have the past you can be proud of, you have to be proud of the past you had. A part of our human nature. We all tend to idealize the past and to suppress negative memories. However Russians seem to be World Champions in this discipline.

@@renemagritte8237 Stalin killed over 20 million people. More than Hitler. Everyone who spoke negative about Stalin is death. If you look back it was better for the world if Hitler defeated Stalin and the U.S. defeated Hitler. Much more people would be alive.

Putin is idealising Stalin right now and rewriting history in his favour!

Stalin was the best leader of the world. Two times he recovered country from ruins to the second economy in the world! GULAG was small prison compared to modern US prison system. Majority of people were happy and great country was developing in all areas with unprecedented speed, has achieved the greatest results in science, education, free medicine, free houses and flats, culture, art, industries, sport, etc., etc. Only parasites and criminals were unhappy with Stalin. But later contrrevolution won and today bourgeois parasits and criminals brainwash working majority and demonize Stalin, Lenin and socialism, try to cover them with shit, but fail with it. People remember progress of socialism and see where capitalism leads- to crisises and imperialistic wars. Finally they have to awake again and find the way that was already shown by Marks, Lenin and Stalin.

Hey Tay

Chocolate rain

Whoa, nice to see you here!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂do you know russians history?😂😂😂its not the truth!!

@@natureblank1401 i was in no way referring to putin but to the era of stalin where open criticism was not tolerated.

Men are more prone to bad habits, do not like to go to the doctor and care less about their health.

Its hard to understand what people like that went through. It would have been bad enough for the kids, but for their parents, with families to look out for it must've been far worse

@@jbowerdel how could you even put the Holocaust and Stalin in one sentence? after the war, the world was very mixed up, spies were seen everywhere if you don’t understand the meaning of sends to Siberia

@@AIwRussia I think he was referring to the format, like the documentary Shoah, which was direct witness testimony of what occurred. I don’t believe it was a comparison to the actual Holocaust.

Эти старушки теперь детишки

Hjärtligt Välkomna!!! ...70 år i efterhand.

And when you crossed the border, everyone clapped? Not to discount the existence of gulags, but as with a large number of these stories, definitely needs more evidence than "owned a hostel therefore DiG To tHeIr DeAtH".

@@user-pg3wy6zb5b people rented accommodation out in the past as well, it could have been a flat where they would rent out rooms. I don't see how that's implausible

Russians will tell you it is all propaganda.

@@henriashurst-pitkanen8735 I'm a Pole and my family was repressed both by the Nazis (Auschwitz concentration camp) and the Soviets. My great grandpa was sent to GULAG, because the Soviets said he didn't fight withdrawing Nazis "well enough". He came back to Poland after several years, but he was a wreck of a human and actually died shortly after. Just read how many millions of people died in II WW and how many millions were repressed by the USSR. You know, if it was SO MANY then it's obvious that so many people will tell you stories about how their families were killed or sent to different camps.

Ironically, the Baltic republics were called "the window display of the Soviet Union" due to higher quality of life compared to other Soviet republics.

Wow, learning about your grandparent's experience has really stuck with me. I keep trying to imagine your grandma's daily life with that always on her mind, her every single move had to be planned, always looking and listening for something, being strong in front of her children... It really puts things into perspective of how much better our lives are now. And to realize that was happening not even that long ago! I sincerely hope your family members were eventually able to find peace and stability ❤

Sad to hear all of that :(

That is a very sad story that many in the Baltics can unfortunately relate to, thank you for sharing. They came for my grandfather's family one night in Lithuania when he was still a child and they were stuffed into a train without time to pack. They were on the way to Siberia when the train stopped and a Soviet solider got into the carriage. My great grandmother had received a medal for some sort of domestic duty (I think having an above average number of children or something like that) and he allowed us to return. By the time they came back though their home had been looted. Crazy to think that if the train did not stop there I most likely would not have been born. I also know a very nice man living in my apartment building who was deported as a child but luckily survived and eventually returned, he gets a good pension now from the government and I think free utilities but it seems wrong that they have to pay for the actions of the occupiers. There is no justice in the end for those that did this.

Stalin was the best leader of the world. Two times he recovered country from ruins to the second economy in the world! GULAG was small prison compared to modern US prison system. Majority of people were happy and great country was developing with unprecedented speed.

Do not exaggerate , the repressions affected a little more than 2% of the population of the USSR , and then most of them had criminal overtones , the rest of the population lived an ordinary life , not even knowing about any repressions . Now it is fashionable to give this phenomenon a political connotation in the USSR , but repression has been and is in all countries with regard to crime.

In any case, Russia does not need a democracy that conquers countries, governments, peoples. Better pray for Putin's health, otherwise a more cruel person will come to power

​@@user-qj5dj5hk1y 2% of dead people is not a lot? Besides repressions there were famines, nationalization of property, collectivization and much more. This is no 'ordinary' life by any means.

@@D_D660 And you tell me how many people were shot in the United States in the 30 years before the war ? Let 's say in the USA now there are as many people in prisons at the same time as were imprisoned in 30 years in the USSR . You also attributed the losses as a result of the famine to Stalin's rule, then it can be attributed that Stalin is to blame for the deaths from sunstroke and from a heart attack and from skin cancer, etc.

@@user-qj5dj5hk1y How can a comparison with USA (who gives a shit bout it) be an argument? Our fellow citizens were dying in Gulags with a smile, knowing that on the other side of the globe people were also oppressed?

Excellent comment and observation.

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National socialist was a pretext. Stalin deported Koreans to Central Asia. Were they national socialists? No. Tartars deported. Were they national socialists? No. Chechens were deported. Not national socialists as well. Pontic Greeks deported too. Also, not national socialists. And the list goes on. Deportations started in 1930 and went on to 1952. Long before the threat of national socialists emerged and long after the national socialists had been defeated. Any group that had too strong an identity was deemed suspicious or worse. If you were near the border, and most of those ethnics were, there was a high likelihood you'd be deported.

Really sorry for that🥺 as a Latvian, we try not to talk about gulag, cheka, deportions etc, atleast in my family.. It just spoils the mood

was it Gulag? more people were deported and send on settlements. some of russian germans were send to Gulag, but not because of nation but because someone else made an assumption that they are spies.

@@SomeTallGirl in Latvia is was much lighter

Same for my grandparents, they were ethnically German (Volga German) from Krasnoarmeiskoe/brabander village (southern Russia/saratov Oblast), they had lived there since the mid 1700s up until the 1940s and luckily escaped just in time to America..many other relatives of my grandparents escaped to Argentina. Horrible times for the ethnic Germans of Russia, and sadly this story is so unknown amongst the world of the tragic times they had to face and practically became extinct during both Lenin and Stalins reign. All that they gave to Russia for hundreds of years and they got killed and imprisoned in return. And like you said, my grandparents also spoke of how Germany abandoned them because they accused them of being 'Russian' at that point, and Russia wanted them dead because they considered them as "once a German, always a German" even after putting them thru Russification and everything. Sad, sad, sad 😔 Germans from Russia in the end had no homeland of their own and still don't. They are like forever nomads and virtually unknown of and forgotten.

History is infiltrated with agenda and propaganda, but individuals also tend to be delusional, especially describing their youth.

More likely she was 7.

My friend's aunt is in her 80s but looks like she is 50. Pretty amazing. But yeah, I doubt that's the case here.

Great post on a terrible subject.

@@be6715 it's not. It's basically social-darvinist post masked under 'humane' approach and plain lie. Basically an author wants you to dismiss actual conditions and history of Russia and view at events in a mythological way where everything is either because of ONE MAN or despite of him. Therefore victories and successes are achieved despite Stalin while everything bad and tragic - because of him. It's not fact based rather fact distortion and omitting facts that do not fit the narrative. This author actually ELEVATES a single person to a status of a god. Unlike Stalin-worshipers this woman thinks he is sort of a demon or an evil entity. Otherwise it has little to do with actual history. The people in that case - is not a subject. An author dismisses the people as an actor in historical process. Because those millions of men and women can be intimidated and forced to hard labour and war by a single person. Which is not only impossible but also indicated the author attitude towards common people. Also a simplification of purges portraying those events as a killing THE BEST is a pure nazi-like idea of dividing people to SORTS. Basically, an author acuses Stalin of killing 'ubermenshen'. And the whole idea is actually depicts an authors worldview rather than Stalin era. For example. The Doctor's Plot is often depicted as an anti-jewish campaign. But at a time there were many famous jews among acamedia and arts who were awarded with a Stalin Prize - the most valuable in USSR. Also, the re-investigation of a plot was actually ordered by Stalin not long before he died. And Lazar Kaganovich - one of Stalin closest allies was pure jew. And personally I am of jewish descent. And I cannot be against a leader of the Red Army which stopped the genocide of slavs and jews. As a jew and as a russian. I cannot afford that. And it is a shame that some jews can. That does not mean someone has to worship Stalin or take a blind eye on tragedies. We should study that and not simplify. There cannot be simple answers to such complicated questions.

You have said about the chechens, koreans, tatars, but i've not said about millions of russians who died because of bolshevik/stalin policies. Well, westerners as always.

Russia is a crazily big country and there are so many cool places 95% of russian people don't even know about. However, they still think that russia has to have ukrainian territory.. I think it could be interesting to ask russians if they know this or that place in russia and if they have been there, how many places in russia they have visited and then to ask if they live in the same shithole the whole life, why would they want ukraine

It's stuff like this that makes me hate that Hitler didn't defeat Stalin in WW2. They were both monsters, but at least Hitler didn't hate everyone like Stalin did. And as horrible as the Nazis were, they were more civilized than the Red Army run by rabid sobaki. bawling*

@@encycl07pedia- That's like comparing who you better off babysitting your kids, a child molester vs violent paranoid schizophrenic. I'm from Zhytomyr Ukraine, I could tell you a story about nazis if you like, about how civilized they weren't.

@@encycl07pedia- "Hitler didn't hate everyone like Stalin did" I do not thing so....

This was brilliant. Thank you for sharing it, so thoughtfully, and well. This is a more correct version of reality...if only because he got the generation wrong...mostly because the right ones to ask, first hand...are dead. And not all naturally so. Still...too late for most. In Russia...as in any place...nostalgia of the very old is NOT necessarily because it was good. It's because change is often difficult to adjust to, and the past was something that proved to be survivable (for them, at least). The present and future lack that certainty. And the familiar is often more comfortable, even when NOT better...rather the way people repeat abusive upbringings in their own relationships. They know this. They UNDERSTAND this. They know the rules. I have watched many of these videos, only to hear the bitterness of the very old, people loathed to relinquish the rigid certainty and lack of personal decisions of the Communist years. I would guess...that the total lack of ANY responsibility for the outcome of their own lives...somehow relieved them of the burden of that responsibility. Sadly, too many EVERYWHERE, are sheep looking for a shepard, to tell them what to do. And the Shepards, too often, have their OWN agendas...which are far less than admirable. And the fewer are swept up in this decision. Sadly, for Russians...there IS NO HISTORY of total self reliance. Or self determination. For, literally, centuries. If ever. ALWAYS there was someone who controlled their lives, who limited EVERYTHING. Who's very word was law. West Germans, when the Wall came down...were quite frankly, terrified. Briefly, thrilled...but they thought it was all about color TV's, washing machines and new cars...THAT was what freedom meant for many. The sheep. But freedom is much more complex. It can be, for some...the lack of someone else to blame. That freedom of choice, to them, can be devestating. OVERWHELMING in its complexity, and options. And because it is also...the freedom to fail. With no one to blame but yourself. Urban Russia has been merely toying with this, for these prosperous years of Western Capitalism. Their street persona rarely match their living conditions...by Western standards. But MOST of Russia is rural...and this never touched their pathetically poor lives. It might have...in time...if Putin and his cronies weren't systematically looting Russia. The fact is..there ISN'T any State funds for this renewal of 5/6ths of Russia. Though Putin, PERSONALLY, could finance ALL OF IT. Putin NEEDED this war in Ukraine, this DISTRACTION...because the next step towards Capitalism...is ALL invested in Western condos and yatchs, etc., of the guys who have backed his power ALL THIS TIME. There would be No expected change...because there was NO money. In spite of the fact that RUSSIA is immensely rich, in natural resources. If you doubt this...look at the difference, ON PAPER, of the resources of the military...and the actual reality, in the field. Graft and corruption..ate it. But Putin knows the sheep. And the underlying fear, they have come to expect as ...normal. The velvet glove is off the iron fist. He's carting off another 300,000 to slaughter in Ukraine. And they are doing...nothing. For Russians...pretty brave. But not EVEN compared to a place like Iran..certainly not to the totally unified effort of Ukraine. Most Western people don't understand the Russian mentality. It is alien to them. Incomprehensible. But MY grandparents are Russian...as are yours... And ALL Russian literature...is depressing. Brilliant...but depressing is a given...

@@diannshoemaker6419 "Sadly, for Russians..there IS NO HISTORY of total self reliance. Or self determination." This, in a nutshell. All their freedoms are bestowed onto them by the state, speaking truth to power is a foreign concept to them.

And Stalin was just great

Как житель Запада, мы задаемся вопросом, почему русские так мало сочувствуют и закрывают глаза на происходящее. Интересно, жива ли еще культура доноса?

@@andrewlesterthomas5581 Русскоговорящий человек/или люди( 'житель запада' или всё-таки 'МЫ задаёмся вопросом'? Тут неувязочка вышла), который живёт где-то на западе, задаёт вопросы русскоязычному человеку, который живёт в Испании о русских в России😂 Оставив 168 комментариев на этом канале и просмотрев кучу видео мог бы уже и сам догадаться. Канал Владимира Золкина тебе/вам/им/ей/ему в помощь понять что к чему. И нафига ты хутлера мистером называешь... Опять неувязочка. Ну или воспитание такое😉

@@andrewlesterthomas5581 Твой коммент, где ты называл путина МИСТЕРом меня поставил в тупик, учитывая какие типа искренние вопросы ты мне задавал. И я решила тебя проверить. Была не была. THOMAS, Andrew Lester твоё имя в черном списке вместе с твоей компанией TECHNALINGUA LIMITED на украинском сайте😂 И далее по списку: Connection with Financial Industrial Group from Russia Connection with the Politically Exposed Person of Russia Company has a connection with business in Russia PSC of the company has a connection with Russia Company’s Officer has a connection with Belarus PSC of the company has a connection with Belarus Sanctions soon👍 И чего ты тут забыл заблудшая душа? Это не вопрос, и так всё с тобой ясно. Ждём санкции 😂

@@tovanova I'm English. I used a Russian translation because you wrote in Russia. My question was simple: Are Russians Snitchers now like they were in Stalin's time? Я английский. Я использовал русский перевод, потому что вы писали в России. Мой вопрос был прост: русские теперь такие же стукачи, как были во времена Сталина?

@@andrewlesterthomas5581 Тебе ли не знать, мистер Андрей Лестер. Ничего не изменилось. Забавно, что вид деятельности твоей компании TECHNALINGUA LIMITED - информационные технологии, связанные с Россией и Белоруссией. Что ж это за технологии такие!? Ни телефона, ни электронной почты у компании в открытом доступе нету. Короче, ждём санкции.

.....once THEY'RE gone,.THEY'RE gone......learn English.....

@@urbanurchin5930 don't be so rude. This isn't an English class it's u tube

people in Russia are much more educated then in EU, lol. we still read books, learn history and much more

@@justthesun Please tell me, why the educated Russians want to emigrate to the stupid EU countries and nobody from the EU wants to emigrate to RUS?? Why is the border watched only from one direction???? 🤔😂

@@justthesun Right and we see how well educated you treat your neighboors. Wtf??