You could buy a lot of carrot halwah with that. Many gulab jamuns later, I said, oops, I should bring some of this leftover money home, shouldn't I? Well, now we know a couple of your favorite desserts at least for your next visit here.
Yeah. I think a lot of them already got shown somehow from that. A gulag concentration camp in existence for 70 years?
Yeah. I think a lot of them already got shown somehow from that. And it's a gulag pretending to be a nation.
He would have known that if he had Googled it. Korean American in a gulag.
Yeah. I think a lot of them already got shown somehow from that. North Korea is literally a gulag pretending to be a nation.
Yeah. I think a lot of them already got shown somehow from that. And if you are living in a gulag, and one thing you say wrong would get you and your family and everyone you know killed,
And this is enforced through a network of political prison camps inside North Korea. These camps are very reminiscent of the Soviet gulags in the Nazi concentration camps. The conditions are absolutely horrific.
There was even a story that the CIA was involved. Another theory actually was that people had escaped from a gulag and went out there. But a lot of these things, some of them were a little bit more simple, like the gulag.
And it's not going to work. And he somehow kept winning in spite of sending half the intelligent people to the Gulag.
but I didn't think about it as much as when I went B if you go through the world and you look at different spice Blends right like rasal hanut which is Tunisian and Moroccan um uh gulat or baharat which is Turkish or G garam masala which is North Indian and and
So, for them, it's like, you know, it varies. Their reaction varies. And I remember in Gulaab Gang, there is this one short where I raise my hand, and then I'm like the big boss, and I'm doing this.
Yeah. I think a lot of them already got shown somehow from that. And I think also the punishment is so great when there's a gulag, and there's public execution, and also you report on each other.
He would have known that if he had Googled it. of the goals we had was trying to get him out of the gulag.
The others still waited patiently because they know there was still the midnight knock, there was still the Secret Police, the Gestapo, or whatever they called it in, in Soviet Union. There's still the concentration camps, the GULAGs, therefore they all waited very quietly and patiently. The same man came back after two hours. The others still were waiting and there was no bread in sight. They're all gathered around him and asked him, "What happened?
And in total silence, without any fanfare whatsoever, in complete and absolute state secrecy to the point where, if you acknowledged you knew anything about this program, you're off to a gulag, they also select a bunch of guys, younger guys, in their 20s. All of them are serving air force pilots.
It would be very hard for someone in Stalin's Soviet Union to oppose Stalin. They'd probably be killed, and their family may be sent to the gulag as well. And the same thing was true of the Exodus story, which is-- the story starts with the Egyptian midwives,
And, in fact, the julep in mint julep-- julep was the old word we used to use for any kind of sugar syrup, and it comes from the Persian word for rose water, which is there in gulan jamun, the desert that I pictured there. So there's all sorts of fun links I've shown you from China but there's lots, also, from the Middle East and Persia.
The Americans nicknamed the bug "The Thing," since at first, they didn't know how it worked. It was created by Soviet inventor, Leon Theremin, who'd been coerced into building the device while imprisoned in a Gulag during the 1940s. This is the same guy who invented the contactless electrical instrument named after him.
So how, for example, did a Stalin get-- just to pick one-- get the authority and people accepted his authority to starve a quarter of the Ukraine, to kill all the Kulaks in the Soviet Union, and to send tens of millions of people to the gulag, and nobody questioned them?
I didn't really know at that point. But to be able to go to those places, to go to the school, and to go to Ivdel, where all the gulags were that they wrote about in their diaries, and to go to Ushma, which is a Mansi village where the indigenous people live.
Another theory actually was that people had escaped from a gulag and went out there. But a lot of these things, some of them were a little bit more simple, like the gulag. First of all, you're in the middle of nowhere, and the nearest gulag is 60 miles away.
But a lot of these things, some of them were a little bit more simple, like the gulag. First of all, you're in the middle of nowhere, and the nearest gulag is 60 miles away. So they had, obviously, fences there with barbed wire and guards that would shoot them.
And in incarceration we see a similar difference in that we see the United States incarcerates roughly three and sometimes ten times more than other countries. An incredible incarceration rate, one that is almost at the same scale that the Soviet Union had during the Gulag days. So we have this very different world in the United States with regard to our internal safety.