Inside Perm 36: The Last Gulag

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Published 2021-10-07
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Under Stalin the G.U.LAG ( Main Administration of Camps ) system spread out across what was the former Soviet Union, swallowing up citizens and foreigners from all corners of the empire. Ukrainians, Estonians, Kyrgyz etc. were taken from their homes and sent north in box cars to the camps to work away their stretches. Millions passed through the camps and many never returned home. Those camps have long been dismantled or converted into regular factories and work places and you'd be hard pressed to know that you were visiting a former camp. However Perm 36 logging camp has been preserved and so I travelled to the very edge of Europe to a village called Kutchino to visit the last Gulag and to see how the prisoners lived.

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  • @baldandbankrupt
    This video is sponsored by Rasputin Men's Club in Yekaterinburg where all your babushka fantasies can come true.
  • @Ralph032789
    I'm still astonish by the level of his social skill. Even kids love him.
  • @Avokade3
    Never thought that it would take me 23 years and a bald man on the internet to see again my birth town Perm. Thank you Benjamin!
  • @ydoumus
    "I'll have me breakfast, I'm gonna jump in a taxi and gonna get back to the gulag" Now that's probably the first time someone said a sentence like that. Ever.
  • @davidp.7620
    "Sorry, I can't speak Russian" - Said Bald in perfect Russian
  • @PineCoffee
    I love it, Bald's never ending hunt for Babushka's Secrets.
  • @GrantTregellas
    I love how one guy with a GoPro can make more entertaining content than a $50,000,000 Hollywood movie.
  • @bensmith5413
    The fact a 3m subscriber Youtuber takes time to sit and have a pizza with those boys. No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child. Well done Bald. Absolute legend!
  • @chadywood
    "Sorry, I cant read Russian." Holding a Russian magazine
  • @proRapRead
    I'm from Perm and live near that bus station. I'm very pleased that Bald visited us and walked along the streets that I walk every day. I always thought our bus station is terrible, but Baldy said it's awesome. It makes me look at things around with a new look.
  • @yazui.i.9368
    Can we just appreciate this gentleman showing us places we never would have visited, while we sit comfy in our homes, watching this amazing series?
  • @CLR1992
    You buying those kids a pizza was fucking legendary. You're a hero, Mr Bald.
  • @j-t4436
    Love how Bald always says โ€œweโ€. Thatโ€™s exactly how it feels, like weโ€™re all on this adventure together!
  • @karljohan3989
    Imagine that, being a teenager in the middle of nowhere in Russia, and you get to meet a british youtuber with 3 million subscribers. Pretty sure they will never forget this pizza.
  • @EdasTattoo
    My grandfather Vytautas Cekanavicius spend 5 years in gulag in Belarus in Babruysk. After all that terrible experience of hard work, hunger he was released and walk on he's own feet all 500 km back home to Lithuania. He was starving all that trip stopping in some houses asking for a piece of bread. He died 1997 age 75 in hes own bed at home. I proud him very much.
  • @user-cu5fq9ys3u
    So nostalgic to see your hometown with the eye of a foreigner. Thanks for the video.
  • @ElCF98
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  • @insomniac411
    It was interesting to watch. Thank you for travelling to this part of the world. My both great grandparents lost their lifes in Gulag ( Altai Krai ). Nobody knows where their graves are. In my country we have this voluntary mission to go to places where lithuanians back in the day were sent to the concentration camps. Volunteers try to find places like these, tidy and clean all these massive graveyards, remember people and their stories left behind...