Yury Dud’s Kolyma
Колыма – родина нашего страха = Kolyma – birthplace of our fear. Documentary (made for YouTube) about Russia’s darker (or missing) pages. It did not go unnoticed, nor unchallenged. See, for example, Gulag Documentary Takes Russian YouTube by Storm (The Moscow Times, April 30, 2019).
Reviews
More at New Russian Documentary Brings the Horrors of the Gulag to the YouTube Generation (Alexey Kovalev, tol.org 2019) and articles on Johnson’s Russia List and vsem.ru. Review by Veniamin Zima (a historian) on realnoevremya.com, in English and/or Russian. See also Kolyma: Russian Documentary About Arctic Siberia and Stalin’s Repressions (Russian Language Blog, 2019) and Russian journalism is alive again, thanks to YouTube (Geert Groot Koerkamp, Trouw 2020).
Колыма was also included in the list of 10 best documentaries to improve your Russian and get to know our country (Yulia Shamporova, Russia Beyond 2019). A long watch (137 minutes), and not exactly comfortable. But definitely (or especially) worth watching. Subtitles available through Settings.
Road of Bones
More on the subject in Kolyma: Land of Gold and Gulags (Geographics, 2020, 25 m). For more about the Road of Bones or Death Road (the R-504 between Yakutsk and Magadan), see (in addition to Wikipedia) Road Of Bones: Dark Side of Russia | Hitchhiking on Most Deadly Road (Nomad Shubham, 2020, 18 m), The Dark story of the Road of Bones (Mysteries And Thoughts, 2018, 6 m), and Kolyma Highway ‘Road of Bones’ Winter January 2017 (Siobhan Purcell, 2017, 11 m). The photo collage Road of Bones (MarkyGRock, 2018, 4 m) is best viewed without sound; better yet, see and read On the Road of Bones: a journey along Far East Russia’s deathly gulag trail (Marie de La Ville Baugé, The Calvert Journal 2018). More on Magadan in Magadan – City Built On Bones (West East, 2019, 78 m), with English subtitles. See also The horrors of the USSR’s ‘Road of Bones’ (Russia Beyond, 2020).
Yury Dud
For the filmmaker Юрий Дудь (in English, Yury Dud, 1986), see Wikipedia and The Russian YouTuber Who Tours The Legacy Of Stalin (Matthew Luxmoore, rferl.org 2019), YouTube star Yury Dud becomes increasingly political (Wabke Waaijer, 2019), and Now you can finally catch divisive Russian YouTube star Yuri Dud in English (Paula Erizanu, The Calvert Journal 2019).
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