Posted on 04/30/2019 10:10:39 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia's online community has been abuzz over the past week with praise for popular YouTuber Yury Dud's documentary about life in the land of the gulag labor camps.
His documentary, “Kolyma — Birthplace of Our Fear,” was viewed 9.5 million times in seven days.
It’s a departure for the 32-year-old sports editor, whose 5.1 million subscribers tune in to watch him interview personalities from all walks of life about their personal lives.
“Why is it that — after rappers, comedians, musicians, actors and directors — we approached this difficult and alarming subject?” Dud asks at the top of the show.
The first answer, he says, lies in a 2018 survey showing that almost half of Russians aged 18 to 24 (Dud’s target demographic) have never heard of Stalin’s repressions. The second is to explore the origins of his parents’ and their generation’s reluctance to “stick your neck out” that he says has affected modern-day Russia.
“Kolyma is among those places where that fear was born,” Dud says as he embarks on a visually gripping two-hour journey into Russia’s Far East, a resource-rich region with subzero temperatures and a legacy of Stalinist repressions.
The project, which spans 2,000 kilometers in nine days, aims to strike a balance between addressing serious subject matter while still appealing to younger audiences.
Dud intersperses breathtaking footage of endless inhospitable land with interviews with the descendants of the victims of Stalin’s Great Terror and current residents torn between staying or leaving for warmer weather.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
No link to the video?
They are in the article page if you hit “Read More”
Roosevelt’s idiot leftie Vice President, Wallace, visited Magadan, the nerve center of the Gulag, and pronounced it a worker’s paradise. He got within three months of the presidency.
Problem with that is setting it to auto translate to English gives allot of gibberish. Became unreadable for me.
“a 2018 survey showing that almost half of Russians aged 18 to 24 (Dud’s target demographic) have never heard of Stalin’s repressions”; what is it withe major countries not teaching their history??? This statistic is similar to young people here in America who do not have a clue about their country’s past.
Hopefully the Russian documentary will soon be available with Eng subtitles. If it gets released, I will post it.
For now, here is the English summary:
Check the english subtitled link at post #5.
Roosevelt’s idiot leftie Vice President, Wallace, visited Magadan, the nerve center of the Gulag, and pronounced it a worker’s paradise. He got within three months of the presidency.
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A New York Slimes writer got a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on “there is no famine there” when he went and visited right in the middle of the famine.
That Pulitzer has never been rescinded or returned.
Also President FD Putz’s wife, Eleanor Putz, visited multiple famine areas and proclaimed the people fat and healthy.
Ping for the link...
Worse, a lot dismiss Stalin’s purges as western propaganda.
You are referring to Walter Duranty, whose reporting in the Slimes denied the existence of the Holodomor. You are absolutely correct - he was a through and through enabler of a horrible atrocity committed by Lenin and Stalin in which tens of millions died.
Thanks. I forgot the criminal’s name. Walter Duranty, a name that should live in infamy.
Он Самый
1 week ago
Yuri, such videos would do with English subtitles, so that people understand who the Russian people are. Let's raise this comment up so that Yuri's team can see. Thank you for the useful content!
Он Самый
1 week ago
Юрий, такие бы видео делать с английскими субтитрами, чтоб люди понимали, кто такой русский народ. Давайте поднимем этот комментарий вверх, чтоб команда Юрия увидела. Благодарим за полезный контент!
A needed and necessary effort- but it is hard to interview the millions and millions who died in these camps.
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