Posted 2 сентября 2021,, 10:44

Published 2 сентября 2021,, 10:44

Modified 24 декабря 2022,, 22:38

Updated 24 декабря 2022,, 22:38

Inborn terror: in 1922, only in Moscow there operated 9 concentration camps

Inborn terror: in 1922, only in Moscow there operated 9 concentration camps

2 сентября 2021, 10:44
At the dawn of Soviet power, the Bolsheviks did not yet consider it necessary to hide their bestial nature and published the addresses and phone numbers of concentration camps in publicly available directories.

It is known that on September 5, 1918, Lenin announced the policy of the “red terror” in the country of “victorious socialism”. It was from this time that the practice of creating concentration camps for civilians became widespread in Soviet Russia. True, at the central level, it had not been streamlined for a long time, but local authorities, the military command, the Cheka zealously took up the organization of concentration camps. The conditions of imprisonment in them varied greatly, and the exact number of prisoners is still unknown, since they have not yet learned how to keep clear documentation. And yet, the scale of the terror is impressive. Even in Moscow.

It is known, for example, that in 1919 a group of civilians who belonged to "hostile classes" were driven from the southern regions of the country to the Kozhukhov concentration camp (near the Kozhukhovo MCC station, now within Moscow). In the same place in 1921, more than 300 members of peasant families from the Tambov province were accommodated, including babies...

Journalist and historian Vladimir Tikhomirov asked in his blog the question: "Do you know how many concentration camps there were in Moscow in 1922?"

Much to the amazement of the readers, the answer was:

“6 concentration camps within the city, plus 3 camps of the Main Directorate of Forced Labor - the predecessor of the Gulag. And all these camps with Bolshevik directness and spontaneity are listed in the usual telephone directory "All Moscow" for 1922. Well, who are they ashamed of? 1922 is the year of the final crackdown on numerous popular uprisings in Russia, the year when many social groups were degraded in civil rights; when the punitive authorities officially took women and children hostage..."

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