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'''Concentration camp'''s were camps the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Nazi Germany]] set up for persons deemed to be opponents or threats to the regime.  The term '''concentration camp''' was coined by Soviet Communist Party General Secreary [[Vladimir Lenin]] in a letter of 9 August 1918 in which he state,

Originally developed by the British during the Boer War, concentration camps were camps the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Nazi Germany]] set up for persons deemed to be opponents or threats to the regime.  The term '''concentration camp''' was coined by Soviet Communist Party General Secreary [[Vladimir Lenin]] in a letter of 9 August 1918 in which he state,

{{Cquote|It is essential to organise a reinforced guard of reliable persons to carry out mass terror against [[kulaks]], priests and White Guardists; unreliable elements should be locked up in a concentration camp outside the town" <ref>Geoffrey Hosking, A History of the Soviet Union, 1992, p. 71.  </ref>}}

{{Cquote|It is essential to organise a reinforced guard of reliable persons to carry out mass terror against [[kulaks]], priests and White Guardists; unreliable elements should be locked up in a concentration camp outside the town" <ref>Geoffrey Hosking, A History of the Soviet Union, 1992, p. 71.  </ref>}}

The Soviet gulags were forced labour camps, mainly in the remote regions of [[Siberia]] and the Far North. By 1934, the gulags held several million inmates (political prisoners and ordinary criminals alike) and the Soviet economy was dependent upon  this vast pool of [[slave]] labour from the [[lumpen masses]] and [[counterrevolutionaries]]. Conditions were brutal: prisoners received insufficient food and clothing to cope with the long working hours and severe weather, resulting in high death rates from exhaustion and disease. <ref>http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/gula.html</ref>  

The Soviet gulags were forced labour camps, mainly in the remote regions of [[Siberia]] and the Far North. By 1934, the gulags held several million inmates (political prisoners and ordinary criminals alike) and the Soviet economy was dependent upon  this vast pool of [[slave]] labour from the [[lumpen masses]] and [[counterrevolutionaries]]. Conditions were brutal: prisoners received insufficient food and clothing to cope with the long working hours and severe weather, resulting in high death rates from exhaustion and disease. <ref>http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/gula.html</ref>  

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