The Real Battle Royale - Nazino Island Tragedy (1933)

Black Friday Deal! Go to to get a 2-year plan plus 1 additional month FREE with a huge discount! 2 years of cybersecurity for only $ per month. On May 18th 1933, on the direct orders of Stalin himself, 5000 men and women arrived at Nazino, a small isolated island on the River Orb, deep in the remote and barren wilderness of Western Siberia. Within a matter of weeks, 4000 of them would either just die from exposure, disappear, drown or be eaten. This was the real life Battle Royale. Become a Simple History member: Support us on Patreon: Copyright: DO NOT translate and re-upload our content on Youtube or other social media. SIMPLE HISTORY MERCHANDISE Get the Simple History books on Amazon: `/e/B00H5TYLAE/ T-Shirts Simple history gives you the facts, simple! See the book collection here: Amazon USA Amazon UK Credit: Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London) Script: Sebastian Barendt Conan White Narrator: Chris Kane Sources Cameron, S. (2018). The Hungry Steppe. Cornell University Press. Gentes, A. A. (2011). “Completely Useless “: Exiling the Disabled to Tsarist Siberia. Sibirica, 10(2), 26-49. Khlevniuk, O. V. (2004). The history of the Gulag: from collectivization to the great terror. Yale University Press. Polian, P. (2003). Against their will: the history and geography of forced migrations in the USSR. Central European University Press. Weiner, A. (2002). The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 32(3), 450-452. Werth, N. (2007). Cannibal Island: death in a Siberian gulag (Vol. 2). Princeton University Press. Wheatcroft, S. G. (2007). Agency and terror: Evdokimov and mass killing in Stalin’s great terror. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 53(1), 20-43. Wheatcroft, S. G. (2008). Lynne Viola. The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007 A. V. Bol’shakova, Sergei Krasil’nikov, B. P. Trenin, eds. Nazinskaia tragediia: Iz istorii zemli Tomskoi: Dokumental’noe nauchnoe izdanie (Tomsk: Nauka, 2002)