In his documentary film “Kolyma” explores the Russian YouTube Star Yuri Dud the Stalin Terror. His goal: to program the future of Russia new.
“Kolyma is not the past”: Yury Dud in the location of his film
“I don’t know about you, but I can already hear all my life from my parents: do not Be careful, in case it’s dangerous. And anyway, We have small screws, one of us depends nothing. My parents are wonderful people. I want to understand: whence comes this uncanny fear for the older Generation? Why are you convinced that courage, no matter how small it is, is necessarily being punished?”
This question is the starting point of Yuri Duds Film”Kolyma – the home of our fear”. In his two and a half hour documentary that is on YouTube, studied at the Moscow YouTube-Star Dud, the “Russian fear” in front of the authorities – and thus the origins of political fatalism, and the social passivity of a large part of the society.
The Great Terror and its consequences
Duds Proposition is that The causes are to be found in Terror of the Stalin era, the darkest and largely not dealt with the Chapter of the Russian history of the 20th century. Century. Over 16 millions of innocent people were robbed as alleged opponents of the regime of their freedom and health, and under inhuman conditions to work in prison camps, forced at least two million of them were killed (exact Figures in the history of research still remains guilty of many secret closed archives until now). The whole country was moved from the beginning of the 1930s up until Stalin’s death in 1953, in a state of shock. A proper workup, however, it was never, and Stalin in the eyes of many Russians, particularly the older Generation remains until today an ambivalent figure, which is not only the genocide against its own population, but also with the victory in the Second world war in connection.
“The great leader”: Neostalinismus in Russia wide
Yuri Dud but it is ultimately the parents ‘ generation. Its target audience, the Younger people are. The ultimate thought was for his “Kolyma”-the project of a survey indicating that more than half of the citizens want to have heard of Russia between 18 and 24 years of Stalin’s repression. No wonder: in school books as official mass media make a big bow around the difficult topic. “We have taken as a challenge,” says Dud, in the Intro to his Film.
But who is this Yuri Dud – this 32-Year-old drilling in old wounds?
Yuri Dud: from sports journalists to the YouTube Star
Dud is a Prodigy of the Russian media world. Already with the beginning 20 of the narrow young man, an asthmatic disease stop her from a career in football, made a name as a sports journalist. But Dud wanted more, and it could also. He became the champion of Russian digital journalism. Since 2017, his Interview Show “vDud runs” on his own YouTube channel now has 5.6 million subscribers. From the Kremlin, the middle, the Director Nikita Mikhalkov to the opposition politician Alexei Navalny – is the cynical, witty, and always extremely well-prepared Interviewer for sure. There is a call for Dud is always a duel, the outcome of which remains up to the last Minute draw.
“Kolyma“: the traces of a primal fear
With “Kolyma” enters Yuri Dud now and again new Terrain. He embarks on a Research, the historians him and home for researchers, but also to the descendants of the victims of terrorism leads. Among them, Natalia, the daughter of Sergei Korolev is. The scientist and space pioneer was a victim of the Great terror. With breathtaking precision and poignancy of the petite old lady, what have suffered, your family, and you yourself as a child of the “people’s traitor” reported.
The Terror did not Stop Yuri Dud in conversation with Natalia Korolewa
To the spirit of the time, physically feel it, travels a Dud at the places where the terrorist has played out: With his Team, he departs from Magadan on the Pacific ocean 2000 miles through the icy landscape all the way to Yakutsk, along the Kolyma-flow, and the eponymous track that was once built by Gulag prisoners. The word “Kolyma” is a Synonym for the Stalinist camp system. The trail mixed with Road-Movie elements with a high entertainment factor; encounters with Locals for regular relaxation between the Horror episodes. A Popsicle at minus 50 degrees? “Ice comes from the fridge and only minus 15 degrees is cold so I warm myself on!”, a young interlocutor commented.
Overcome fear, create the future
“Fear is a sticky substance, the man is going to be very difficult,” says in the “Kolyma”-the movie Efim Schiffrin. The renowned actor and comedian was born as the son of a terrorist victim in Magadan and from the life-long primal fear-Bacillus infected, as he himself admits.
“‘Kolyma’ is not our past, it is our present,” claims Yuri Dud at the end of his film: “fear is the main enemy of freedom is.” An exemption to draw on Knowledge of the past and respect self and others. “The only way we make our country fit for the future.”
“Yuri, forget the celebs – filling the Internet with Historical analysis, this is what we need right now!”, a comment of a User is representative of 15.1 million others who have seen the “Kolyma”-the Film to now (as of mid-June 2019).