THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) WAS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT
Euphrosinia Kersnovskaya, who challenged the Stalinist repressive machine, not only left us her memories, she created a unique archive of drawings, which is most accurately defined as the GULAG comic book. In addition to the horror, there is a lot of sarcasm, fun and, oddly enough, life affirmation in it.
We now share the incredible story of this woman with you.
Contents:
00:00 Is Euphrosinia Kersnovskaya the woman who defeated Gulag?
03:33 How did she manage to escape?
10:27 Kersnovskaya's origin. Is she a noblewoman?
15:28 The arrival of the Soviets to the homeland of Kersnovskaya
21:46 The deportation
28:31 Rules of life in the GULAG system
31:48 The special settlement. What did the exiles do?
35:03 Why did Euphrosinia try to kill her boss?
39:28 Why is Kersnovskaya fleeing to Tomsk?
41:15 The Soviet hinterland of the war years through the eyes of Euphrosinia
42:52 The investigation and Eufrosinia's sentence
46:30 How did she manage to avoid being shot?
48:20 The Siberian camps
49:44 How did she start drawing?
51:11 Inner freedom in the GULAG system
57:22 Why was she given a new term?
1:00:15 Norillag
1:03:32 The camp hospital
1:06:43 A medical artist
1:08:42 "Mine is worse than death". Why did she go to work in the mine voluntarily?
1:10:57 Why did she consciously go to suffering?
1:13:03 Was Kersnovskaya a feminist?
1:13:53 Eufrosinia had never been in love
1:15:01 The "liberation" from the GULAG
1:17:01 How did the camp react to the news of Stalin's death?
1:18:43 Kersnovskaya's reunion with her mom
1:22:21 The new home
1:24:29 How did the neighbors treat Euphrosinia?
1:27:00 Why did Kersnovskaya start writing memoirs?
1:31:10 How and when were they first published?
1:40:10 How did Euphrosinia feel about the collapse of the USSR?
1:41:36 Shalamov and Solzhenitsyn - why are Kersnovskaya's memories different?
1:42:45 So is it possible to defeat the system?