Lenin, Not Hitler, Popularized the Term “Concentration Camps” for Citizens of One’s Own Country

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in his book The Gulag Archipelago about the term “concentration camp”:

In August, 1918, several days before the attempt on his life by Fanya Kaplan, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin wrote in a telegram to Yevgeniya Bosh and to the Penza Provincial Executive Committee (they were unable to cope with a peasant revolt): “Lock up all the doubtful ones [not “guilty,” mind you, but doubtful–A.S.] in a concentration camp outside the city.” (And in addition “carry out merciless mass terror”– this was before the decree.)

Only on September 5, 1918, ten days after this telegram, was the Decree on the Red Terror published, which was signed by Petrovsky, Kursky, and Bonch-Bruyevich. In addition to the instructions on mass executions, it stated in particular: “Secure the Soviet Republic against its class enemies by isolating them in concentration camps.”

…The word itself had already been used during World War I, but in relation to POW’s and undesirable foreigners. But here in 1918 it was for the first time applied to the citizens of one’s own country.

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2, p 17

Communists Love CRT

Communists avoid saying when human life begins.

Communists love to avoid saying when human life begins because they see humans in a utilitarian way — as interchangeable cogs in a collective machine, not as individuals made in the image of God.

Communists are taking over a country when a candidate for that country’s highest court will not say in public what her belief is as to when human life begins.

Communists blur the distinctions between men and women.

Communists love to blur the distinctions between men and women because they see humans in a utilitarian way — as interchangeable cogs in a collective machine, not as individuals made in the image of God.

Communists are taking over a country when a candidate for that country’s highest court cannot provide a definition for the word woman. (Psst! “Adult female human” is the answer.)