Whispers of Warning: Insights from a Soviet Childhood
Channel: Con Troversial
Date: 15/04/2024

so I grew up in uh
late of union and early 90s
Russia yeah
um and
it's
one of the reasons that
I think we
you know
people with our backgrounds
uh who have
seen the alternative system
uh we are
naturally quite wary of
of potentially
our society now
going in that direction so
uh I grew up with stories
from my parents
and grandparents telling me
about
being sent to the gulag
for saying the wrong thing
or expressing
the wrong opinion yeah
um and so I
all of
this was ingrained in me
from a historical
point of view but also
then
my own childhood experience
I mean I remember
this is late Soviet Union
do you know when
I would have gone to school
would have been 88
or something 87
something like that um
whenever would have been
and my parents saying to me
you know the
stuff that we're discussing
here you mustn't
discuss that at school
cause we'll be in trouble
um
and it actually was the case