[tired1]

Excellent movie “Lenin's Testament” (Zaveschanie Lenina” for those that understand Russian.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Sorry, I left out the source link: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/columns/1328/article/closure-of-soviet-concentration-camps-where-arbeit-macht-frei-first-appeared-recalled/396743.html

[Riodacat]

also called attention to the place where those words first hung at a place of detention

I doubt the Ruskies ever hung a German sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" on their Gulags..

[SkyDancer]

I'm confused with this statement:

"...a monastery in northern Russian first erected and used by Ivan the Terrible to imprison anti-Soviet White Russian officers and men ..."

He was the Russian Tsar, 1533-84 - I didn't know there were anti-Soviet White Russian's back then.

[Riodacat]

BTW, the Brits were the first to use concentration camps (long before the Nazis ansd Soviets).
All Boer women and children were herded up during the Anglo-Boer war in the late 1800's and 10's of thousdands were murdered thru starvation and disease..

[TLI]

Camps of Special Assignment

Gee, that sounds so, so... community organizing.

"There's something familiar about this place..."

[tophat9000]

The left has alway been able to white wash the blood they are cover in....You will see no major Hollywood movie on this unless they can spin it “RIGHT”

[denydenydeny]

As I recall from The Gulag Archipelago, "SLON" is the Russian word for "elephant" and the Soloveysky Camps used a stylized picture of an elephant as their symbol. Today we'd use a picture of a cute polar bear.

[dfwgator]

Also, after the war the Soviets continued to use Buchenwald as a Concentration Camp. Something Obama didn’t mention when he visited there.