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→Torture was often used in the Soviet Union
In atheistic [[communism|communist]] regime of the [[Soviet Union]], torture was often used to extract false confessions to establish that individuals were "enemies of the people" - particularly under the [[Militant atheism|militant atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]]'s regime.<ref>Alexander Solzhenitsyn. "The Gulag Archipelago"</ref>
In atheistic [[communism|communist]] regime of the [[Soviet Union]], torture was often used to extract false confessions to establish that individuals were "enemies of the people" - particularly under the [[Militant atheism|militant atheist]] [[Joseph Stalin]]'s regime.<ref>Alexander Solzhenitsyn. "The Gulag Archipelago"</ref>
== Atheistic communist North Vietnam and torture ==
From 1961 to 1973, the North Vietnamese government and Vietcong held hundreds of Americans soldiers captive. Hanoi's Ministry of Public Security's Medical Office (MPSMO) was responsible for "preparing studies and performing research on the most effective Soviet, French, Communist Chinese and other ...techniques..." of extracting information from POWs. The MPSMO "...supervised the use of torture and the use of drugs to induce [American] prisoners to cooperate." Its functions also "...included working with Soviet and Communist Chinese intelligence advisors who were qualified in the use of medical techniques for intelligence purposes."<ref>[http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/warcrimes.cuba.vietnam.html "War Crimes: The Cuban-Vietnam Connection"], National Alliance of Families.</ref>
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