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[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|thumbnail|250|right|The [[atheism|atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]] sent millions of peasants to slave labor camps.<ref>http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm</ref>]]

[[File:Stalin-140508 27880t.jpg|thumbnail|250|right|The [[atheism|atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]] sent millions of peasants to slave labor camps.<ref>http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/comfaq.htm</ref>]]

The Museum of [[Communism]] website declares:

The Museum of [[Communism]] website declares:

{{cquote|Slave labor camps, also known as "concentration camps," "forced labor camps," and "re-education camps," have played a vital role in Communist systems from the very beginning. Lenin's secret police, the Cheka, began to set up concentration camps in 1918; the first official admission appears to have been made by Leon Trotsky, who threatened rebellious Czech forces with confinement in concentration camps if they refused to join the Red Army...  

{{cquote|Slave labor camps, also known as "concentration camps," "forced labor camps," and "re-education camps," have played a vital role in Communist systems from the very beginning. [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]'s secret police, the Cheka, began to set up concentration camps in 1918; the first official admission appears to have been made by [[Leon Trotsky]], who threatened rebellious Czech forces with confinement in concentration camps if they refused to join the Red Army...  

In the early Stalin years, the camp populations were roughly stable, but by 1930 by most estimates the number had skyrocketed to 1,000,000 inmates. But the growth era of the camps was only beginning: by 1940 the concentration camps contained about 10,000,000 souls, while camp conditions grew ever worse. The prison population declined and living conditions improved considerably after Stalin's death, but the slave labor camps persisted into the [[Gorbachev]] years...

In the early Stalin years, the camp populations were roughly stable, but by 1930 by most estimates the number had skyrocketed to 1,000,000 inmates. But the growth era of the camps was only beginning: by 1940 the concentration camps contained about 10,000,000 souls, while camp conditions grew ever worse. The prison population declined and living conditions improved considerably after Stalin's death, but the slave labor camps persisted into the [[Gorbachev]] years...