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While there is a tendency to blame [[Stalin]] for Marxist "excesses" and "mistakes," the dangerous underpinnings of socialist ideology remain unchanged today.
While there is a tendency to blame [[Stalin]] for Marxist "excesses" and "mistakes," the dangerous underpinnings of socialist ideology remain unchanged today.
==Chinese Laogai==
[[File:Forced Labor Detention Facilities in China.PNG|thumb|right|300px|]]
[[File:Forced Labor Detention Facilities in China.PNG|thumb|right|300px|]]
The modern [[Chinese Communist Party]] system of gulags are called the ''Laogai'', the Russian equivalent of ''Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei''. Indeed, Solzhenitsyn postulated the origianl gulag system of corrective labor may have origninated in China. The book ''Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China'', published in 2009, stated that as many as 3 to 5 million people were imprisoned in laogai or gulag camps.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Laogai-The-Machinery-Repression-China/dp/1884167772 Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China], 2009-10-01</ref>
The modern [[Chinese Communist Party]] system of gulags are called the ''Laogai'', the Russian equivalent of ''Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei''. Indeed, Solzhenitsyn postulated the origianl gulag system of corrective labor may have origninated in China. The book ''Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China'', published in 2009, stated that as many as 3 to 5 million people were imprisoned in laogai or gulag camps.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Laogai-The-Machinery-Repression-China/dp/1884167772 Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China], 2009-10-01</ref>