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The Gulag was one of the darkest chapters in Russia’s past. The Russian government is airbrushing it away.
We set out to find as many living survivors as we could. They told us their stories, some for the first time. They are Generation Gulag.
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We set out to find as many living survivors as we could. They told us their stories, some for the first time. They are Generation Gulag.
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Stalin, who sent millions to Gulag camps, has never been more popular in Russia. 70% of Russians say they approve of his legacy.
This is the result of a Kremlin campaign, spearheaded by Vladimir Putin, to rewrite Soviet history.
This is the result of a Kremlin campaign, spearheaded by Vladimir Putin, to rewrite Soviet history.
The Generation Gulag project started with a conversation between Coda journalists @antelava & @katia_patin. They wanted to hear from the eyewitnesses of Soviet authoritarianism about what it’s like to see their past being rewritten.
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Xinjiang, China is an information vacuum. With reports of a million Uyghurs in detention, plus censorship, surveillance and a blackout on outside communication, it’s hard to know what’s happening. So Uyghurs abroad turned to an unlikely resource: TikTok codastory.com/authoritarian-…
If you think of Tiktok, ByteDance’s phenomenally successful Chinese-owned video-sharing app, you’ll probably think of videos like this.
Snappy. ✅ Short. ✅ Cut to pop music. ✅
And in Xinjiang, most of the videos are no different.
Snappy. ✅ Short. ✅ Cut to pop music. ✅
And in Xinjiang, most of the videos are no different.
But some TikTok videos share visual clues about life under Xinjiang surveillance. Like this one, which appears to show a line of Uyghurs waiting to pass through a Xinjiang security checkpoint.
