Video: Gulag on miniatures. Scary "eyewitness drawings" of the guard Danzig Baldaev
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Hasn't existed for decades Gulag - a network of "forced labor" camps spread throughout the Soviet Union. However, the memory of him is still alive in the memory of people. Including, thanks to numerous works of art, such as, for example, drawings Danziga Baldaeva - series illustrations, in an accessible form telling about the horrors of the penal system of Stalin's times.
There has been a long debate about the personality of Danzig Baldaev. This Buryat (hence such a strange name) served for many years in the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, but whether he was a guard in the camps in the Gulag system or not, it's hard to say for sure - Baldaev himself gave conflicting explanations about this.
However, it was Baldaev who created a series of amazing illustrations, very, very vividly telling about the horrors that took place in the camps, which, judging by the name, were considered "corrective labor".
These drawings were created by Danzig Baldaev in the eighties, and then some of them were published in separate Soviet periodicals - Ogonyok, Leningradsky Literat, etc., but they never received wide popularity.
The fact is that Baldaev's drawings are very minimalistic, but very brutal and cruel. However, what to expect from illustrations showing the essence of one of the most cruel communities in the entire history of Mankind? This is not a Norwegian prison, more like a resort!
Even in our time, after all that we could see in fiction and documentary sources, despite the deep cynicism that conquered the public consciousness, some of the illustrations created by Baldaev look extremely cruel and disgusting.
For this they were created - to show people all the anti-humanity of the system of persecution and punishment on political grounds, created by Stalin and his loyal servants, most of whom eventually suffered from the same system.
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