Comments on: Gulags: Then and Now

By: Hally

Hally — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:22:25 +0000

I wish someone would translate the commentary into english so we can learn further.

By: Hally

Hally — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:21:09 +0000

I agree. We have to saturate ourselves with the past to learn from it so it will never be repeated. My grandparents and parents had a different view. They were taught to forget. If we do forget all the atrocities, it will easily happen again with a different people in a different time.

By: Pkallis

Pkallis — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:55:04 +0000

I really recomend you to read A Journey Into the Whirlwind, a womans account of her experiences within the Gulags. As well Cannibal Island is a really good book to read about how brutal these Gulags were. They are very disturbing accounts of the Gulags, but the more people know and are aware of the terrible things in this world, I truly believe the less likely they are to occur again.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:01:18 +0000

The pictures are haunting. For further reading, check out the book “Remember Us: Letters from Stalin’s Russia”. The corresponding web site has a collection of letters written IN THE MOMENT, not memoirs, that somehow traveled out of the country. Some further disturbing info.

By: ie

ie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:09:56 +0000

the photo of the watchtower appears to have a guard standing eerily below it.

By: BoredQuiz

BoredQuiz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:24:04 +0000

Those drawings are plain scary and really emphasize the terror that occurred there.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:32:25 +0000

Don’t be surprised when Erik Estrada is hawking Home sites in this area.

By: PeleKen

PeleKen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:19:21 +0000

@ Supernovah.
It would be one thing if you could just avoid saying anything bad about Stalin and avoid the Gulags. However, often the Gulags were unavoidable. Regions had to fill quotas like our police have quotas to hand out speeding tickets. If you failed to turn enough people in, you were a traitor and sent instead (or killed).

By: Supernovah

Supernovah — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:36:36 +0000

Their own fault.
You blaspheme you go to hell.
You talk down Stalin you go to Gulag.
One in the same isn’t it?

By: Rafe Champion

Rafe Champion — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:33:38 +0000

Try this as well, an essay on the regrettably limited film record of death and deportation from the Baltic states and the Ukraine. See the website.