Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In 1933, thousands were exiled to Nazino Island, where starvation bred violence and cannibalism. Discover the chilling Soviet experiment buried for decades, and the horrors history tried to erase forever.

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00:00 Introduction
01:03 Russia in the 1930s
05:27 Getting deported to Gulags
09:38 Life at Nazino Island
14:02 The horrors on the island
18:39 Investigating the Nazino tragedy
22:29 The aftermath of the Nazino tragedy