Kolyma Land of Gold and Gulags

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The place I am describing is one of the Easternmost regions of Russia and was almost entirely uninhabited until the start of the 20th Century, when prospectors first found precious metal. In any other place, or at any other time, it could have become a land of plenty and opportunity; instead, it became a sprawling region of despair and meaningless death, home to hundreds of thousands of slaves, forced to toil in labour camps. • → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. • / @geographicstravel • Our sister channels: • Biographics - / @biographics • TopTenz - / @toptenznettop10 • Credits: • Host - Simon Whistler • Author - Arnaldo Teodorani • Producer - Jennifer Da Silva • Executive Producer - Shell Harris • Business inquiries to [email protected] • Source/Further reading: • What Shalamov saw and learned in Kolyma: https://shalamov.ru/en/library/34/1.html • www.gulag.eu • http://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexh... • https://www.rbth.com/multimedia/2015/... • https://www.rbth.com/history/330455-r... • https://www.rbth.com/history/326157-k... • https://www.nps.gov/malu/learn/news/u... • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl... • https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2... • https://shalamov.ru/en/biography/

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