Question by : Why are there no videos of Gulag camps being liberated in 1991?
When the USSR collapsed in 1991 and the western media occupied Russia I thought that the first thing they would film would be Gulag camps being liberated in order to show the “horrors of soviet times”.
However, I am unable to find any videos what so ever of these “liberations”, could the Gulag Camps be over rated and exagerated for people to think they occurred on the scale that they did.
>any youtube links or other website links would be greatly appreciated. thank you
By Gulag I mean Labour Camps or prisons such like
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Answer by ownpool
The Western media did not occupy Russia or even have free movement there. The Russians were able to cover up the Gulags. Westerners still do not have free movement in much of Russia.
Media does not have free access to much of the USA, including prisons, military bases, atomic energy facilities, etc.
Read “The Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn if you have a very strong stomach. He survived the Gulag and lived in the USA after he was allowed to leave the USSR. I have never seen a denial of the Gulag and if I did I would put it in the same category as a denial of the Nazi death camps.
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Blonde A says
gulag in 1991? you’re history knowledge is impressive
fyi, gulag was dissolved by 1960
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so you think criminals were ‘libirated’ in 1991?
as i said, there were no gulag labour camps after 1960, prisons still there even now