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 …