Oksana Baulina
The Insider

Oksana visited Gulag survivor Olga Shirokaya at home to show Olga her episode from Generation Gulag.

In Generation Gulag, Coda Story examines the impact of rewriting history campaigns. While Russia airbrushes and glorifies its past, the eyewitnesses of Soviet authoritarianism have a different story for us and a message for our era. One year after publishing, the series Generation Gulag producer Oksana Baulina visited Olga Shirokaya to show Olga her episode. I didn’t expect that in a short piece you would be able to so truthfully find the essence of the many things I told you,” Olga told Oksana. “You found the heart of it.”