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7000 дней в ГУЛАГе
Autobiografski roman hrvatskog književnika austrijskog podrijetla, jednog od malobrojnih komunista koji se uspio vratiti u domovinu nakon zatočeništva u SSSR-u. Štajner je proveo dvadeset godina u najstrašnijim logorima u prostranstvima Sibira i ovoj knjizi iznosi svjedočanstva strašnih zločina što ih je počinio Staljin u ime komunizma.
Štajner potanko opisuje bijedu, jad i krajnju okrutnost života u sovjetskim logorima, iskorištavanje zatvorenika za najteže fizičke poslove, torture i poniženja te neljudske uvjete zbog kojih su mnogi umrli. Također opisuje razgovore s ostalim zatočenicima tijekom kojih su mu otkrili razloge zbog kojih su završili u logoru. Dok je trpio patnje, u sebi je nosio stalnu misao kako treba preživjeti i cijelom svijetu ispripovijedati kakve su strahote prepatili.
Knjiga je kroz godine doživjela dvadeset i četiri izdanja i prijevode na strane jezike (uključujući njemački, engleski, francuski, češki, esperanto i kineski).
Štajner potanko opisuje bijedu, jad i krajnju okrutnost života u sovjetskim logorima, iskorištavanje zatvorenika za najteže fizičke poslove, torture i poniženja te neljudske uvjete zbog kojih su mnogi umrli. Također opisuje razgovore s ostalim zatočenicima tijekom kojih su mu otkrili razloge zbog kojih su završili u logoru. Dok je trpio patnje, u sebi je nosio stalnu misao kako treba preživjeti i cijelom svijetu ispripovijedati kakve su strahote prepatili.
Knjiga je kroz godine doživjela dvadeset i četiri izdanja i prijevode na strane jezike (uključujući njemački, engleski, francuski, češki, esperanto i kineski).
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First published January 1, 1971
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December 6, 2023
You probably know that the Gulag stands for the system of Soviet labor camps and its accompanying network of detention, transit camps, and prisons. 7000 Days In Siberia was written by the famous survivor of the Gulag. It offers the reader unique and valuable glimpses into that ruthless system. Human life in the Gulag is worth less than that of a stray dog. Forced labor is a pillar of the system of Soviet camps.
In the foreword, the author notes that his intention was to describe events in their nakedness and allow the reader to form their own opinion. He obviously was successful in documenting the bare facts. The memoir is enlightening and reveals how cruel and often irrational the system of the Gulag camps was.
Karl (Karlo) Štajner, a foreign communist in Stalin's camps, spent twenty long years in the farthest reaches of Siberia above the Arctic Circle. In the book, he details the cold, the hunger, the thirst, the humiliation, and the fear that constituted his life as a prisoner of the Gulag. To make a long story short, those were times when potatoes could save lives.
Štajner (1902 – 1992) was born in Austria. In his youth, he joined Yugoslav communists who sent him to work in Moscow. In 1936 he was arrested on a trumped-up charge of being a Gestapo agent. Thus his ordeal that would last around seven thousand days began.
Štajner proves a gifted writer. His journal reads as the event itself and not its description. His writing is sharp and attentive to detail.
I will give you an example of such writing where the author portrays what he and his fellow prisoners had to go through when being transferred from one prison to another.
"A new plague descended on us: in Murmansk, three hundred criminal convicts were put aboard the already overcrowded ship. They immediately began to pillage the political prisoners. Few of us thought of defending ourselves: some were too sick, others too apathetic. Nevertheless, fights did erupt here and there. Some of the criminals had knives. People were injured. The guards pretended not to notice.
On the fifth day, a huge storm broke. We thought the waves were going to swamp us. Water penetrated the ship, and those who sat near the opening had to move. The storm lasted two days, during which the ship hardly made any progress. No food was cooked during the storm, so there was no hot food; but no one felt like eating. At times, the storm was so violent that the barrels full of excrement and urine were tossed through the air and spilled their disgusting contents over us."
Enduring everyday hardships and witnessing the horror and death around him, the author had the incentive to get out alive. He knew that his wife Sonya was waiting for him. He also hoped to be able one day to recount his terrible experience and unveil the truth about the Stalin regime.
Karl Štajner believed in the Communist ideals prior to his arrest. He continued to believe in them in the prisons and camps, accusing Stalin of betraying Marxist ideas and goals and making innocent people suffer because of his megalomania and paranoia. He remained loyal to his ideals after being released. The author considered what happened to him as having nothing to do with socialism. He speaks about the counter-revolution organized by Stalin, which he describes as "an attack primarily directed against socialism itself, that brought them about."
In Siberia, the author is cut off from the outside world. Still, some bits of information randomly reach prisoners. Thus, among other things, we learn how the events of the Second World War were seen by the author and his fellow inmates. We learn about their hopes for their treatment to become milder usually followed by disenchantment. Several times, the author narrowly avoids death.
Stalin dies in 1953. Liberalization, vacillating and halting, can be discerned in the air. Political prisoners slowly start returning from the camps and exile. Among them we find Karlo. Soon after his return to Moscow, the author and his wife manage to receive permission to return to Yugoslavia which the author has regarded as his home country.
Štajner was a supporter of Josip Broz Tito.
One of the frightening and startling things the author had to witness concerns the system fighting birds.
"There were a great many gulls on the island. Their loud cries penetrated into the cells and brought some distraction into the prisoners’ sad life. It was like a sign of freedom for us. One day, we heard a volley of rifle fire and thought the soldiers must be practicing. Soon after, we noticed the absence of gulls’ cries. Later we learned what had happened: a commission from Moscow had come up with the notion that the prisoners might send out messages by attaching them to a gull, and had ordered the birds shot."
Although this story deals with the dark and tragic parts of history, it is not entirely gloomy. The importance of human connection and love find their place on its pages.
The author seems to have proved himself a person of strength and moral integrity.
To sum up, a highly recommended read.
In the foreword, the author notes that his intention was to describe events in their nakedness and allow the reader to form their own opinion. He obviously was successful in documenting the bare facts. The memoir is enlightening and reveals how cruel and often irrational the system of the Gulag camps was.
Karl (Karlo) Štajner, a foreign communist in Stalin's camps, spent twenty long years in the farthest reaches of Siberia above the Arctic Circle. In the book, he details the cold, the hunger, the thirst, the humiliation, and the fear that constituted his life as a prisoner of the Gulag. To make a long story short, those were times when potatoes could save lives.
Štajner (1902 – 1992) was born in Austria. In his youth, he joined Yugoslav communists who sent him to work in Moscow. In 1936 he was arrested on a trumped-up charge of being a Gestapo agent. Thus his ordeal that would last around seven thousand days began.
Štajner proves a gifted writer. His journal reads as the event itself and not its description. His writing is sharp and attentive to detail.
I will give you an example of such writing where the author portrays what he and his fellow prisoners had to go through when being transferred from one prison to another.
"A new plague descended on us: in Murmansk, three hundred criminal convicts were put aboard the already overcrowded ship. They immediately began to pillage the political prisoners. Few of us thought of defending ourselves: some were too sick, others too apathetic. Nevertheless, fights did erupt here and there. Some of the criminals had knives. People were injured. The guards pretended not to notice.
On the fifth day, a huge storm broke. We thought the waves were going to swamp us. Water penetrated the ship, and those who sat near the opening had to move. The storm lasted two days, during which the ship hardly made any progress. No food was cooked during the storm, so there was no hot food; but no one felt like eating. At times, the storm was so violent that the barrels full of excrement and urine were tossed through the air and spilled their disgusting contents over us."
Enduring everyday hardships and witnessing the horror and death around him, the author had the incentive to get out alive. He knew that his wife Sonya was waiting for him. He also hoped to be able one day to recount his terrible experience and unveil the truth about the Stalin regime.
Karl Štajner believed in the Communist ideals prior to his arrest. He continued to believe in them in the prisons and camps, accusing Stalin of betraying Marxist ideas and goals and making innocent people suffer because of his megalomania and paranoia. He remained loyal to his ideals after being released. The author considered what happened to him as having nothing to do with socialism. He speaks about the counter-revolution organized by Stalin, which he describes as "an attack primarily directed against socialism itself, that brought them about."
In Siberia, the author is cut off from the outside world. Still, some bits of information randomly reach prisoners. Thus, among other things, we learn how the events of the Second World War were seen by the author and his fellow inmates. We learn about their hopes for their treatment to become milder usually followed by disenchantment. Several times, the author narrowly avoids death.
Stalin dies in 1953. Liberalization, vacillating and halting, can be discerned in the air. Political prisoners slowly start returning from the camps and exile. Among them we find Karlo. Soon after his return to Moscow, the author and his wife manage to receive permission to return to Yugoslavia which the author has regarded as his home country.
Štajner was a supporter of Josip Broz Tito.
One of the frightening and startling things the author had to witness concerns the system fighting birds.
"There were a great many gulls on the island. Their loud cries penetrated into the cells and brought some distraction into the prisoners’ sad life. It was like a sign of freedom for us. One day, we heard a volley of rifle fire and thought the soldiers must be practicing. Soon after, we noticed the absence of gulls’ cries. Later we learned what had happened: a commission from Moscow had come up with the notion that the prisoners might send out messages by attaching them to a gull, and had ordered the birds shot."
Although this story deals with the dark and tragic parts of history, it is not entirely gloomy. The importance of human connection and love find their place on its pages.
The author seems to have proved himself a person of strength and moral integrity.
To sum up, a highly recommended read.
October 17, 2025
Title in English: Seven Thousand Days in Siberia.
Karlo Stajner was an Austrian communist (with Yugoslavian passport) who was arrested in Moscow in 1936 and spent 17 years in different camps of Gulag. Even after his ordeal, he didn't abandon socialism. In his opinion, stalinism was a perverted version of socialism, but socialistic society was still possible. Karlo Stajner criticized Solzhenitsyn for turning his readers into anti-communists and for extrapolating his 'light' experience over all Gulag archipelago's citizens.
SEVEN THOUSAND DAYS IN SIBERIA is a retelling of events that happened to Stajner and people he met in camps. No analysis, no attempts to speak about the camps' conditions/hierarchical system as did most camp survivors in their memoirs. Rare political comments are general in nature and contain factual mistakes. Sometimes the story becomes too dry: "I went to work, spoke with this person, eat this food," etc. Yet, it's a unique historical document (and it's obvious that Karlo Stajner was extremely lucky to survive and even return to his homeland) that deserves to be read alongside other, more famous camp writers' memoirs.
Karlo Stajner was an Austrian communist (with Yugoslavian passport) who was arrested in Moscow in 1936 and spent 17 years in different camps of Gulag. Even after his ordeal, he didn't abandon socialism. In his opinion, stalinism was a perverted version of socialism, but socialistic society was still possible. Karlo Stajner criticized Solzhenitsyn for turning his readers into anti-communists and for extrapolating his 'light' experience over all Gulag archipelago's citizens.
SEVEN THOUSAND DAYS IN SIBERIA is a retelling of events that happened to Stajner and people he met in camps. No analysis, no attempts to speak about the camps' conditions/hierarchical system as did most camp survivors in their memoirs. Rare political comments are general in nature and contain factual mistakes. Sometimes the story becomes too dry: "I went to work, spoke with this person, eat this food," etc. Yet, it's a unique historical document (and it's obvious that Karlo Stajner was extremely lucky to survive and even return to his homeland) that deserves to be read alongside other, more famous camp writers' memoirs.
January 27, 2020
Kaže vic: preživio rudar u Bosni jedini nesreću u rudniku (izignulo preko sto i kusur rudara kako to obično biva) i sav sretan se vraća svojoj kući. Dočekuje ga žena na pragu kuće i viče mu : ” Nosio te đavo, ti jedini preživio, vazda si bio mimosvit”. Veli žena, kad su svi izginuli, što nisi i ti. Možda bi joj bilo lakše, a možda i ne bi.
Takva žena nije sigurno bila žena kojoj je posvećena ova knjiga, žena koja je čekala svog muža, autora ove knjige i glavnog junaka priče prema vlastitim doživljajima, koji je skoro dvadeset godina robijao u različitim mjestima Sibira, za vrijeme Staljinove vladavine Sovjetskim savezom (čistke i slanje nepoćudnih u logore). Iako je ovo jedna nevjerojatna priča što sve mogu biti ljudi, u svojim krajnostima, koliko zli, koliko dobri, u pozadini ipak stoji priča o pravoj ljubavi.Rijetkoj.
Zanimljiva je psihologija odnosa kod zatvorenika, kako se ljudi unatoč različitim rangovima, obrazovanjima, nacionalnostima i položajima ipak uvijek grupiraju prema interesu i ljudskosti po onoj slično sa sličnim. Autor je jedno vrijeme boravio u Aleksandrovskom centralu, zatvoru u Sibiru gdje je svoju kaznu služio i Dostojevski.
O tome koliko su se ” otegla muda jugoslovenska” tih godina :
Ne, ne,ne (na rijeci Liffey)
Na klupi
Pored prljave rijeke Liffey
Još prljavijeg grada Dublina
Čekao sam Nju
Dok mi je neki oceanski vjetar
Prebrojavao kosti
Pored mene
Sjeo je čovjek
Sav od acetona,amonijaka
I sasušenog znoja sačinjen
Na ruskom engleskom
Tražio je novac
Za votku
Pružih mu kovanica par
Kroz propale zube
Upita za moju zemlju
Kad mu rekoh
Usta, povika
Ne,ne,ne
Tito je rekao Ne
Staljinu Ne
Stajao je ukočen
Kao da gleda
Sve svoje odluke davne
U oči
Kad je trebao reći
Ne,ne,ne
Ustavši s klupe
Muda su mi upala u Liffey
A umjesto buć
Odzvanjalo je
Ne,ne,ne
(I.LJ.)
Takva žena nije sigurno bila žena kojoj je posvećena ova knjiga, žena koja je čekala svog muža, autora ove knjige i glavnog junaka priče prema vlastitim doživljajima, koji je skoro dvadeset godina robijao u različitim mjestima Sibira, za vrijeme Staljinove vladavine Sovjetskim savezom (čistke i slanje nepoćudnih u logore). Iako je ovo jedna nevjerojatna priča što sve mogu biti ljudi, u svojim krajnostima, koliko zli, koliko dobri, u pozadini ipak stoji priča o pravoj ljubavi.Rijetkoj.
Zanimljiva je psihologija odnosa kod zatvorenika, kako se ljudi unatoč različitim rangovima, obrazovanjima, nacionalnostima i položajima ipak uvijek grupiraju prema interesu i ljudskosti po onoj slično sa sličnim. Autor je jedno vrijeme boravio u Aleksandrovskom centralu, zatvoru u Sibiru gdje je svoju kaznu služio i Dostojevski.
O tome koliko su se ” otegla muda jugoslovenska” tih godina :
Ne, ne,ne (na rijeci Liffey)
Na klupi
Pored prljave rijeke Liffey
Još prljavijeg grada Dublina
Čekao sam Nju
Dok mi je neki oceanski vjetar
Prebrojavao kosti
Pored mene
Sjeo je čovjek
Sav od acetona,amonijaka
I sasušenog znoja sačinjen
Na ruskom engleskom
Tražio je novac
Za votku
Pružih mu kovanica par
Kroz propale zube
Upita za moju zemlju
Kad mu rekoh
Usta, povika
Ne,ne,ne
Tito je rekao Ne
Staljinu Ne
Stajao je ukočen
Kao da gleda
Sve svoje odluke davne
U oči
Kad je trebao reći
Ne,ne,ne
Ustavši s klupe
Muda su mi upala u Liffey
A umjesto buć
Odzvanjalo je
Ne,ne,ne
(I.LJ.)
October 4, 2016
Svaki čitalac doživjet će knjigu na svoj način, jedni će je gledati pretežno kao izraz osobne nesreće i nepravde jednog čovjeka, drugi će cijelu stvar staviti u kontekst historijskog zbivanja i veliku tragediju jednog naroda i uopće čovječanstva. Štajnerova sjećanja na hapšenje, suđenje, njegove patnje, događaje iz tamnica, istražnih kancelarija ili iz logora, i neprekidan teror koji je trajao dvadeset godina ne mogu se čitati ravnodušno.
August 5, 2010
This is a curious book,
a victim of Stalin's purge, the author spent 18 years in Siberian labor camps and prisons.
He was starved, beaten, and grossly overworked.
He states at the beginning that he wrote the book "without analysis",
but doesn't say why he made this choice.
He cursed Stalin, the KGB, the prison guards, and many others who tormented him.
BUT, he joined the communist party in 1917, and to the end considered himself to be a "good communist".
He never blamed communism for his ordeal,
just individual people who were, after all,
just doing their jobs.
Except for Stalin of course.
I came to the conclusion that this book is one of the greatest examples of cognitive dissonance I've ever encountered.
For 18 years in Siberia, and then for the rest of his life after that, he had to bend his thinking so that communism could still be good, and that his early life choice to work for the political system that nearly killed him was not a bad choice.
That he was not a fool for making the choices he made.
What irony.
But I never got the impression that he saw the irony.
The author was somewhat more intelligent than average,
and very much more stubborn. (Something he was proud of.)
Wiki has a good writeup about cognitive dissonance,
with a number of examples/variations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitiv...
a victim of Stalin's purge, the author spent 18 years in Siberian labor camps and prisons.
He was starved, beaten, and grossly overworked.
He states at the beginning that he wrote the book "without analysis",
but doesn't say why he made this choice.
He cursed Stalin, the KGB, the prison guards, and many others who tormented him.
BUT, he joined the communist party in 1917, and to the end considered himself to be a "good communist".
He never blamed communism for his ordeal,
just individual people who were, after all,
just doing their jobs.
Except for Stalin of course.
I came to the conclusion that this book is one of the greatest examples of cognitive dissonance I've ever encountered.
For 18 years in Siberia, and then for the rest of his life after that, he had to bend his thinking so that communism could still be good, and that his early life choice to work for the political system that nearly killed him was not a bad choice.
That he was not a fool for making the choices he made.
What irony.
But I never got the impression that he saw the irony.
The author was somewhat more intelligent than average,
and very much more stubborn. (Something he was proud of.)
Wiki has a good writeup about cognitive dissonance,
with a number of examples/variations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitiv...
August 14, 2019
Dugo mi je trebalo da uzmem ovu knjigu u ruke. Godine su prolazile, a ona me gledala s police. Vjerojatno je upravo sad bilo vrijeme za nju i za mene.
"7000 dana u Sibiru" je majstorsko djelo. Možda će netko reći - eh, "samo" neka vrsta dnevnika čovjeka koji je imao strašnu nesreću biti zarobljen u Staljinovoj Rusiji 1936. Osamnaest godina je robijao ni zbog čega. Kao i većina ljudi tada, kojima su natovarili političku krivnju na leđa. Jer su se tako sjetili.
Karl Štajner je tek nakon dvadeset godina uspio otići iz Sovjetskog Saveza. Sretna sam što mu je memorija bila tako fantastična i što se sjećao svake sitnice. Zahvalna sam mu što je odlučio to sve napisati i podijeliti sa svijetom. Klanjam se njegovoj ženi Sonji, koja ga je sve vrijeme čekala. Karl Štajner doživio je 90 godina. Ipak.
Ovo je remek-djelo, u svakom smislu: povijesnom, literarnom, umnom i emocionalnom. Kako god okrenete, treba ga pročitati. Makar vam, kao meni, trebalo toliko dugo vremena za odluku.
"7000 dana u Sibiru" je majstorsko djelo. Možda će netko reći - eh, "samo" neka vrsta dnevnika čovjeka koji je imao strašnu nesreću biti zarobljen u Staljinovoj Rusiji 1936. Osamnaest godina je robijao ni zbog čega. Kao i većina ljudi tada, kojima su natovarili političku krivnju na leđa. Jer su se tako sjetili.
Karl Štajner je tek nakon dvadeset godina uspio otići iz Sovjetskog Saveza. Sretna sam što mu je memorija bila tako fantastična i što se sjećao svake sitnice. Zahvalna sam mu što je odlučio to sve napisati i podijeliti sa svijetom. Klanjam se njegovoj ženi Sonji, koja ga je sve vrijeme čekala. Karl Štajner doživio je 90 godina. Ipak.
Ovo je remek-djelo, u svakom smislu: povijesnom, literarnom, umnom i emocionalnom. Kako god okrenete, treba ga pročitati. Makar vam, kao meni, trebalo toliko dugo vremena za odluku.
December 29, 2022
Globus
Zagreb, 1981.
Autobiografski dnevnik komunjare u Sibiru.
Budala Karlo Štajner je ostao komunist i nakon dvadeset godina robije u sovjetskim logorima.
Još ljigavije je veličanje diktatora Tita, jugoslavenskog Pinocheta (Pinochet nije ubio toliko ljudi, niti je bio toliko krvoločan, također Pinochet se dobroboljno povukao), branjenje jugoslavenskog socijalizma.
Na stranu komunistička glupost Štajnera, dnevnik je jako zanimljiv.
Iznosi istinsko obilježe socijalističkog društva: robovlasnički sustav.
Sam Štajner iznosi da su logoraši Sovjetskog Saveza bili iskorištavani kao robovska snaga imperiju samog Sovjetskog Saveza.
Najveći dio godina je bio stacioniran u logoru u Norilsku, na dalekom europskom sjeveru.
Divan je taj socijalizam, poriv za biti rob je izuzetno jak i danas kod mnogih idiota.
Ljige koje podržavaju Radničku frontu bi bar napokon u socijalizmu nešto radili, u logorima prvo završe naivne budale koje i vjeruju u sotonistički socijalizam.
Suvremenom Hrvatskom vlada nažalost zločinački antifašizam koji veliča svoja krvoprolića u Srbu 1941. te koji parazitira kroz nevladine uduruge i političke stranke poreznim obveznicima.
Antifašizam je povijesno gledajući uvijek bio antidemokracija. Danas nije ništa drugačije.
Ne smijemo dopustiti da antifašizam opet uništi demokraciju, trebamo obraniti višestranačje i slobodo tržište.
Danas nije tako kritično, ni vidjevši što se događa u Čileu bagra antifašistička može u budućnosti manipuliranjem i kulturnom hegemonijom uništiti demokraciju.
Već kontroliraju gotovo svim hrvatskim sveučilištima.
Plejade midwita na Filozofskom stvara okruženje kognitivne kriptodepresije.
Za kraj ide jedna za mnoge profesore i povjesničare, za uvjerene antifašiste i sve one koje žele alternativu kapitalizmu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NORmn...
Mrš stoko!
Hasta luego mis murcielagos!
Zagreb, 1981.
Autobiografski dnevnik komunjare u Sibiru.
Budala Karlo Štajner je ostao komunist i nakon dvadeset godina robije u sovjetskim logorima.
Još ljigavije je veličanje diktatora Tita, jugoslavenskog Pinocheta (Pinochet nije ubio toliko ljudi, niti je bio toliko krvoločan, također Pinochet se dobroboljno povukao), branjenje jugoslavenskog socijalizma.
Na stranu komunistička glupost Štajnera, dnevnik je jako zanimljiv.
Iznosi istinsko obilježe socijalističkog društva: robovlasnički sustav.
Sam Štajner iznosi da su logoraši Sovjetskog Saveza bili iskorištavani kao robovska snaga imperiju samog Sovjetskog Saveza.
Najveći dio godina je bio stacioniran u logoru u Norilsku, na dalekom europskom sjeveru.
Divan je taj socijalizam, poriv za biti rob je izuzetno jak i danas kod mnogih idiota.
Ljige koje podržavaju Radničku frontu bi bar napokon u socijalizmu nešto radili, u logorima prvo završe naivne budale koje i vjeruju u sotonistički socijalizam.
Suvremenom Hrvatskom vlada nažalost zločinački antifašizam koji veliča svoja krvoprolića u Srbu 1941. te koji parazitira kroz nevladine uduruge i političke stranke poreznim obveznicima.
Antifašizam je povijesno gledajući uvijek bio antidemokracija. Danas nije ništa drugačije.
Ne smijemo dopustiti da antifašizam opet uništi demokraciju, trebamo obraniti višestranačje i slobodo tržište.
Danas nije tako kritično, ni vidjevši što se događa u Čileu bagra antifašistička može u budućnosti manipuliranjem i kulturnom hegemonijom uništiti demokraciju.
Već kontroliraju gotovo svim hrvatskim sveučilištima.
Plejade midwita na Filozofskom stvara okruženje kognitivne kriptodepresije.
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August 19, 2019
This meaty tome really had me turning the pages. Štajner's story about his suffering during Stallin's regime, in a neverending merry-go-round of prisons, labor camps and absurd legal processes, captivated me beyond words. What made it more powerful was the objectivity and almost clinical tone - the account was delivered in plain words, without any pretense towards artistic expression. Štajner didn't have to infuse unnecessary pathos in this book; his life story (and the stories of the various people he comes across during his time of imprisonment) is more than enough to engender a deep sympathy in the reader. I'm usually uncomfortable rating people's life stories, but this time I'll make an exception. This book deserves more recognition and more people should be aware of the courage and perserverance of Karlo, his wife Sonja (the unsung heroine of the book!) and numerous other victims of Stallin's regime.
December 6, 2022
4-
Није могуће остати равнодушан послије оваквих аутобиографија. Потресно свједочење о животу у ГУЛАГ-у. Овакве књиге треба читати, ако ништа, да човијек постане свјестан цијене „раја“ ако га људски разум осмишља! Тај рај је увијек скуп и плаћа се људским душама!
У овој књизи Штајнер излаже догађаје, појединости, људе и њихове судбине и то представља доста захвално свједочење, али без нарочито дубоке анализе узрока, што ипак ово дјело чини донекле штурим.
„Bojao sam se i toga da će moju knjigu zlonamjernici iskoristiti kao oružje protiv socijalizma“ је реченица која одаје Штајнера као човјека који не сматра идеологију социјализма/комунизма као узроке ГУЛАГ-а. А да је управо тако подробно доказује/објашњава Солжењицин у свом „Архипелагу“ који и даље стоји као незамјењива оставштина за оног ко се бави овом темом.
Није могуће остати равнодушан послије оваквих аутобиографија. Потресно свједочење о животу у ГУЛАГ-у. Овакве књиге треба читати, ако ништа, да човијек постане свјестан цијене „раја“ ако га људски разум осмишља! Тај рај је увијек скуп и плаћа се људским душама!
У овој књизи Штајнер излаже догађаје, појединости, људе и њихове судбине и то представља доста захвално свједочење, али без нарочито дубоке анализе узрока, што ипак ово дјело чини донекле штурим.
„Bojao sam se i toga da će moju knjigu zlonamjernici iskoristiti kao oružje protiv socijalizma“ је реченица која одаје Штајнера као човјека који не сматра идеологију социјализма/комунизма као узроке ГУЛАГ-а. А да је управо тако подробно доказује/објашњава Солжењицин у свом „Архипелагу“ који и даље стоји као незамјењива оставштина за оног ко се бави овом темом.
February 8, 2013
If you have any interest in these kind of stories, where people suffer greatly and overcome impossible odds to achieve freedom.
This book is outstandingly written and captures the deprivation, misery and inhumanity that people are subjected to, while explaining what the political landscape was like at the time.
I know lots of people find these stories difficult, yet they deserve such respect for sharing their ordeal in the hope knowledge can prevent similar things happening to people in the future.
An inspirational story!
This book is outstandingly written and captures the deprivation, misery and inhumanity that people are subjected to, while explaining what the political landscape was like at the time.
I know lots of people find these stories difficult, yet they deserve such respect for sharing their ordeal in the hope knowledge can prevent similar things happening to people in the future.
An inspirational story!
September 14, 2017
knjiga koja ostavlja bez riječi.
January 10, 2016
Autobiografski roman Karla Štajnera koji je kao uvjereni komunist postao žrtva Staljinove čistke.
Prije čitanja ove knjige bio sam upoznat sa određenim činjenicama vezanim uz Sibirske logore, načine protjerivanja i suđenja ljudima u SSSR-u, ali ova knjige mi je dala potpuni pogled u razmjer tih brutalnih događanja. Veličina katastrofa koja se može mjeriti s Holokaustom.
Autor bez dojmova, mišljenja i analiza opisuje 20 godina ropstva (prelazak iz jednog logora u drugi), ljude koje sreće i prilike iz pakla koje su ga pogodile. Iznosi samo gole činjenice i situacije želeći čitatelja natjerati da sam donese svoj sud o svemu.
Uvijek nakon određenog vremena kad pročitamo neku knjigu, neki dijelovi (slike koje pamtimo u glavi) padaju u zaborav. Ali scene kao što su (rezanje prsta) kako bi se dobilo dan slobodno u logoru, kuhanje svojih fekalija (kako bi se ječam iz njih mogao ponovno upotrijebiti kao hrana) te rađanje djece kako bi se dobila pošteda od tjedan dana u logoru, ću jako teško izbrisati iz sjećanja.
Prije čitanja ove knjige bio sam upoznat sa određenim činjenicama vezanim uz Sibirske logore, načine protjerivanja i suđenja ljudima u SSSR-u, ali ova knjige mi je dala potpuni pogled u razmjer tih brutalnih događanja. Veličina katastrofa koja se može mjeriti s Holokaustom.
Autor bez dojmova, mišljenja i analiza opisuje 20 godina ropstva (prelazak iz jednog logora u drugi), ljude koje sreće i prilike iz pakla koje su ga pogodile. Iznosi samo gole činjenice i situacije želeći čitatelja natjerati da sam donese svoj sud o svemu.
Uvijek nakon određenog vremena kad pročitamo neku knjigu, neki dijelovi (slike koje pamtimo u glavi) padaju u zaborav. Ali scene kao što su (rezanje prsta) kako bi se dobilo dan slobodno u logoru, kuhanje svojih fekalija (kako bi se ječam iz njih mogao ponovno upotrijebiti kao hrana) te rađanje djece kako bi se dobila pošteda od tjedan dana u logoru, ću jako teško izbrisati iz sjećanja.
November 3, 2014
Fantastic flow of the storyline. The detail that the author goes into is pretty immersive. I would reccomend this to any fan of 20th century history - as it is easy to translate the experience of soviet gulags into similar totalitarian projects as seen in other parts of the world.
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May 17, 2025Tužna sudbina jedne osobe u najgorim mogućim uvjetima na svijetu, velika priča o pobjedi optimizma, gdje je sreća morala 1000 puta intervenirati da ovaj čovjek preživi.
Ali ipak ideološki obojana knjiga koja veliča Jugoslavenski kumunizam, ali ću smatrat da je to tamo moralo bit.
Ali ipak ideološki obojana knjiga koja veliča Jugoslavenski kumunizam, ali ću smatrat da je to tamo moralo bit.
April 17, 2024
Knjiga je odlična. Baš kao što je autor najavio, činjenice, bez puno okolišanja, emocija, a sjajan prikaz svih događaja. Na mjestima teška, ali i ohrabrujuć prizor svega što čovjek može podnijeti. I lijepa poruka da je čak i na takvim mjestima kao što je sibirski logor autentičnost, iskrenost i poštenje prepoznata i cijenjena.
August 26, 2020
Вроде бы уже столько написано и прочитано про ГУЛАГ, но время от времени всплывает какая-то еще книга, и читаешь, и все там уже знаешь, и все равно из года в год это повторяется. Интересные претензии к Солженицыну, кстати, но сам текст длинноват, хотя ничего вроде и не выкинешь.
May 13, 2016
Author described 18 years of imprisonment due to false accusations. He tried to write the book without personal thoughts and remarks, and mostly managed it great; describing in great detail his life in work camps and prisons in Siberia, Russian inner politics and the way NKVD and CP worked.
It's fantastic and almost unbelievable that author managed to survive through such mistreat and abuse, and remember in full detail (and note it in short remarks) huge number of names and sad destinies of other (mostly innocent) prisoners. He was imprisoned under false accusations, basically just because he was foreigners, and things he saw and survived can't be better explained then they are in this book. I see some readers criticize the lack of character development, but this book isn't about character(s). It's about politics, and human nature...the worst of the human nature.
In retrospective, I find it incredible that he managed to stay so stubborn and unsubdued, opposing the system which took so many lives. He was lucky at times, but this is incredible sad story, and parallel with Holocaust easily springs to my mind. It's similarly surprising that he stayed loyal to his idea of the communism, but it was mostly as he didn't saw Stalin and the NKVD/KGB as communist/socialist society. He saw them as paper constructs , posing as socialists, while they were actually slaveholders.
I'd recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about USSR, Stalin, labor camps or totalitarian regimes. It's truly sad story on how too much power in ones hand can destroy life of literally millions.
It's fantastic and almost unbelievable that author managed to survive through such mistreat and abuse, and remember in full detail (and note it in short remarks) huge number of names and sad destinies of other (mostly innocent) prisoners. He was imprisoned under false accusations, basically just because he was foreigners, and things he saw and survived can't be better explained then they are in this book. I see some readers criticize the lack of character development, but this book isn't about character(s). It's about politics, and human nature...the worst of the human nature.
In retrospective, I find it incredible that he managed to stay so stubborn and unsubdued, opposing the system which took so many lives. He was lucky at times, but this is incredible sad story, and parallel with Holocaust easily springs to my mind. It's similarly surprising that he stayed loyal to his idea of the communism, but it was mostly as he didn't saw Stalin and the NKVD/KGB as communist/socialist society. He saw them as paper constructs , posing as socialists, while they were actually slaveholders.
I'd recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about USSR, Stalin, labor camps or totalitarian regimes. It's truly sad story on how too much power in ones hand can destroy life of literally millions.
August 18, 2007
Unbelievably well written book, about innocent man living thru work camp in Siberia during Stalin time. Spending 20 years in prison for no reason whatsoever, and every bit of his suffering is very well translated to the paper. Emotional, but great book.
October 14, 2017
"Nelle galere dell'N.K.V.D., nel deserto ghiacciato del Grande Nord, ovunque la mia sofferenza ha superato i limiti di ciò che è sopportabile, una risoluzione non mi ha mai abbandonato: poter sopravvivere e raccontare al mondo e ai miei amici del Partito la mia terribile esperienza."
August 6, 2018
Моторошно читати, як людина, навіть щиро вірячи в комуністичну ідею, могла стати заручником деспотичного прагнення повної влади "вождя" і місцевих "вождиків". Не знаю, чи переклали цю книжку російською, але адептам "ефективного менеджера" варто було б її почитати.
June 5, 2025
Današnja Putinova Rusija sve je sličnija jnekadašnjoj Staljinovoj Rusiji koju je autor opisao u ovom romanu. Tuga i ništa drugo.
May 25, 2019
For those that think that their life is hard and has no meaning
October 4, 2019
A magnificent personal testimony of almost twenty years of repression, mistreatment, and suffering in the incomprehensible, inhumane conditions, due to the bogus political charges of the Stalin's regime.
You will be humbled by the immensity of his experiences, thoughts, and a news-reporter style Karlo Stajner (Karl Steiner) exhibits in this book.
Even though Karl Steiner was not a professional writer, and certainly not a poetic prose writer, his straight narrative and chronological style, will invoke in you a palate of deep feelings and revolting reactions, as if you were reading a prolific poetic classic.
I personally would put this book among the top of the best books I have ever read, and certainly it is the book that made the most profound impression on me.
Highly recommend this book not only as a read to understand the historical facts and individuals caught in the horrors of the stalinistic period, but also as a warning that any idea or government will, given time and circumstances, trend towards dictatorship and enslavement of its own people.
You will be humbled by the immensity of his experiences, thoughts, and a news-reporter style Karlo Stajner (Karl Steiner) exhibits in this book.
Even though Karl Steiner was not a professional writer, and certainly not a poetic prose writer, his straight narrative and chronological style, will invoke in you a palate of deep feelings and revolting reactions, as if you were reading a prolific poetic classic.
I personally would put this book among the top of the best books I have ever read, and certainly it is the book that made the most profound impression on me.
Highly recommend this book not only as a read to understand the historical facts and individuals caught in the horrors of the stalinistic period, but also as a warning that any idea or government will, given time and circumstances, trend towards dictatorship and enslavement of its own people.
January 4, 2021
I read it in croatian (original) language.
It‘s a captivating and tough story to read; to an extent that I was partially feeling that I myself am experiencing the Stalin era and the events of WWII.
The story, based on a prisoner who was captured and tortured for 20 years in Russian prisons. In addition, based on that personal story, the reader will be able to get an understanding what the mankind had to endure during Stalinism & WW2.
This book will give the reader opportunities to reflect on our current situation and further a chance to learn to be grateful.
It‘s a captivating and tough story to read; to an extent that I was partially feeling that I myself am experiencing the Stalin era and the events of WWII.
The story, based on a prisoner who was captured and tortured for 20 years in Russian prisons. In addition, based on that personal story, the reader will be able to get an understanding what the mankind had to endure during Stalinism & WW2.
This book will give the reader opportunities to reflect on our current situation and further a chance to learn to be grateful.
January 11, 2023
نفس الظلم والقهر والاساليب القمعية فى كل دول العالم ..انا قرات عن بشاعات روسيا لكن الكتاب دا كرهنى اكتر فيها ...
عمليات القتل للمعتقلين والبشر عموما حاجة مش ممكنة
طبع لا ننسى الرواد حاليا زى سوريا وايران ومصر وغيرهم
عمليات القتل للمعتقلين والبشر عموما حاجة مش ممكنة
طبع لا ننسى الرواد حاليا زى سوريا وايران ومصر وغيرهم
March 20, 2025
لا تعلم هل هي رواية ام قصة حقيقية.. التفاصيل والتواريخ توحي بانها رواية لاستحالة تذكر كل هذه التفاصيل بعد فترة سجن طويلة. القصة تنقل الجحيم الذي كان يمارسه ستالين على السجناء. لم اكملها لطولها وتكرار تفاصيل غير مهمة.
February 28, 2021
Incredible details, incredible pain and incredible mental strenght
December 4, 2012
As the cover quite rightly suggests, this book is the most chilling account of life in Stalin's labour camps since The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Specifically since this book came out in 1971 and in Yugoslavia. 7000 days in Siberia is the real life account of Staijner's 20-year detention, mostly in Siberia, from 1937 till 1956.
However, besides the shocking (and now well-known) content, describing in detail the goings on in the work camps and prisons under Stalin, the book itself is too long and too superficial with too little character development to be really interesting.
However, besides the shocking (and now well-known) content, describing in detail the goings on in the work camps and prisons under Stalin, the book itself is too long and too superficial with too little character development to be really interesting.
August 26, 2016
The book about Stalin's labor camps from a perspective of a Karlo who spent 18 years in camps and somehow made it through alive thanks to his tenacious and unbreakable spirit. He never accepted to sign an agreement NKVD kept pushing on him because they charged and convicted him just for being a foreigner. He was eventually released as a favor to Tito and reunited with his wife. Karlo had an interesting way of writing since he limited himself from expressing his thoughts but rather observed and meticulously described his experience. This being an autobiography ensures lack of literary value but serves as a true indicator of how brutal communism can be under the pretense of socialism.
March 8, 2014
This book was a doozy. It took me forever to get through. I've always been interested in the GULAG's but this book was just so difficult to get through. The author was just so detached from everything that happened. I understand that to survive something like that you must be detached but a little emotion would be slightly appreciated. The reading was dry and sometimes just plain boring. I know I've been harping on it, but the last 6 pages when he was finally about to be free and return to Yugoslavia was when it really started to pick up. So that's why I'm giving this review a 3.
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