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Concentration camp as a symbol of Western civilization was taken over by Marxists

60th anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops in 1945 of Auschwitz, unfortunately, not without regular attacks of various Western and especially homegrown Pro-Western media in Russia. Well, I can not Russophobes of all countries not to spit at anything that contradicts the image of Russia as a country – "a thousand years slaves". So the date of the liberation of Auschwitz fell a profound arguments about the similarities between German Nazism and Stalinism. The Russian President, speaking in Poland, sharply condemned the attempts to equate the occupiers and liberators. But hardly any one political or historical study of the events of the twentieth century in Europe, is complete without mention of the fact that Hitlerism and Stalinism were set up concentration camps which killed millions and millions of people. Of course, Western democracy looks at the background of totalitarian regimes just as the realm of earthly angels. One of the leading television news programs about the events in Auschwitz profoundly said that from the creation of the concentration camp there is one cure – democracy. However, the story (and the story, as told by the ancient Romans, is the teacher of life), proves the contrary...

... A concentration camp for the destruction spawned by Western civilization. Moreover, it is a democratic country and the first created them. First "real" camp (but without the gas chambers and crematoria) was established in the United States during the Civil war of 1861-1865. It was organized by southerners in the town of Andersonville for the captured soldiers of the Federal army. All in the camp died from starvation and ill-treatment to 10 thousand prisoners northerners. Not less than 300 prisoners were shot just for the fact that crossed the line. (Now, apparently, when he was born saying guards – step left, right step is considered an escape). In Andersonville the prisoners were tortured even in order to find out the military information, as well as of pure sadism. After the war, the camp commandant, Henry Wirtz, a German by birth, was executed by northerners as a war criminal. Pictures (by the way, one of the first photographs in history) show us the surviving prisoners of Andersonville, more like living skeletons. If you compare the pictures released from Andersonville and Auschwitz, it is impossible to find between them any difference. By the way, the northerners also created concentration camps for prisoners of the South, which also flourished atrocities, but because the northerners won the war, the evidence about the camps the government of Lincoln is almost gone.

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Here it is, the first concentration camp on earth. Naturally, made in USA

The British Empire also made a "contribution" to the construction of death factories. However, free Britons, and earlier for the most minor offenses were sent to Australia (to turn the continent into a convict prison is no Lavrenti Beria could not come to mind!). It is very symbolic that for humanity, the twentieth century began under the roar of gunfire, the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902. In the course of this war has not only been used explosive bullets, machine guns, shrapnel, and concentration camps. A significant portion of the civilian population of the Boer republics, the British left behind barbed wire. In the British concentration camps were killed the majority of prisoners. To because of the abundance of corpses in the hot African climate is not the epidemic began, the British built camps crematorium. Thus, Adolf Hitler and his henchmen did not have to invent – not only the idea but also the practical implementation of the destruction of certain categories of the population in the camps has already been tested.

But why Western democracy, more precisely, Western civilization, thought to the construction of concentration camps? The basic principle of Western democracy, as is well known, the principle of freedom of conscience (which all too often turns into a freedom of conscience). When a person is not seen as created by God in the image and likeness, but only as a statistical unit, having the right to vote and possessing a certain property, it is reasonable to assume that those people who are not voters or taxpayers, can be consumed as a consumable item. At the same time just to physically eliminate certain categories of the population are often too expensive. Easier as to squeeze out the labor of prisoners of all that is possible, that the procedure of financial destruction paid off. Thus, the concentration camp can be justified economically. What else is needed for companies, which reduce the economic profitability? Moral principles to a godless society, as we know, does not exist. Remember about morality only in order to justify the most immoral actions.

This also applies to the Soviet Gulag. The Marxists who created it were the people of the Western mentality. In the end, does Marxism was not one of the areas of the philosophy of progressivism, leading descended from the enlightenment (a word what!) The EIGHTEENTH century? No matter how drowned in delanna perturbation Russophobes, the GULAG in the history of our country was only the assimilation of Western experience. That's only necessary if we, with our thousand-year Orthodox tradition, too much and too inaudible to import from the West?

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P. S. the 16-acre prison in Andersonville (also known as camp Sumter), Georgia, was one of the biggest prisons of the Confederacy during the Civil War. During the 14 months of its existence, more than 45 thousand Union soldiers passed through this prison, and about 13 thousand of them died due to poor living conditions, diarrhea, dysentery and hunger. When the magazine Harper's Weekly (American political Bulletin, the first edition was in 1857 – approx. translator) has published pictures of the prisoners, the Americans were shocked by the views of prisoners of war, leaving only skin and bones.

The prison opened in February 1864. The estimated capacity of approximately 10 thousand prisoners. By June, the number of people increased two times. "The place was so Packed that no room to fall," wrote one unfortunate prisoner of war. The confederates quickly added two essential building extra ten acres, but the prison was still overcrowded and lacked resources. Especially prized food; the standard daily ration consisted of corn bread and a worthless piece of pork products are often issued already spoiled. "It is not that other, as a place of Hunger, of shame for any government," wrote the same prisoner.

Many prisoners are not banal enough shelter and clothing to protect themselves from the elements. "Many people tore to shreds my underwear, shirt, pants and the like, sewed it all together and they were able to make yourself some shelter," said the prisoner. Despite rampant diseases such as scurvy and gangrene, medication it almost not supplied. "We lack to abundance, and open wounds, which festered and were crawling with maggots," wrote prisoner the captain of the Union.

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The camp commander captain Henry Wirtz. And his punishment for atrocities against northerners…

Prisoners of war are not just dying from the disease: they even killed if they crossed the "line of death" – a line of wooden posts in a 19-feet away from the prison. Those who sign up for this line, to be shot sentries. Some people are desperately trying to put an end to the suffering, knowingly transgress the line…

After the war captain Henry Wirtz, the commandant Andersonville prison, was convicted of "conspiring to injure the health and destroy of Federal prisoners" and "murder through violation of the laws or customs of war". Many prisoners testified against him, while some supporters claimed that he was just a scapegoat, following orders from above. Anyway, he was hanged November 10, 1865…

At the end of the war in April 1865, the nurse of Charles Barton and former prisoner of Dorans Atwater noted the graves of the dead soldiers who were buried in shallow pits next to the prison. The government has since designated this place as a national military cemetery. There now operates the Museum.

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One of the monuments and graves of Andersonville

However, history is written by the winners, so such camps on the part of the northerners say much less. The war between North and South in the USA was conducted at the level of the concentration camps. In the concentration Camps in the South, the northerners responded with concentration camps for southerners-Confederate.

That's what the evidence has left the witnesses on one of the 11 concentration camps of the North for Confederate prisoners – the camp "Douglas". About this place and that it was happening, it was customary to remain silent, and the silence lasted 130 years. Only in the late XX century began the investigation, historians picked up old archives and published documents related to this concentration camp.

On the North camp Douglas, located near Chicago, was installed only one monument at a mass grave in which are buried more than 6,000 confederates who died in the "Douglas". This monument was erected in 1895, 30 years after the war, the forces of the southerners and their friends from Chicago.

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Monument to those killed in the "Douglas»

A few words about the camp. Federal concentration camp "Douglas" was located near Chicago, near the shores of lake Michigan. He was known as the Northern camp with a very high mortality rate among all Northern prisons and camps of the Civil war in the United States. It contained prisoners as the confederates of the number of military and civilians from occupied territories.

The first prisoners arrived at the concentration camp in February 1862. The conditions were terrible, one of the five prisoners within these walls were dead. In the camp "Douglas" was used extremely cruel punishment for any violation on the part of prisoners. Food rations were very small and often held for various offenses and violations, with the result that almost all the prisoners here, the Confederate soldiers were starving.

Here are just a few facts, talking about how the northerners kept Confederate prisoners in your concentration camp.
Beginning in 1862, deaths in the "Douglas" was 10% (compared to "Andersonville", where it still was 9%, and the figure for the hardest 1864, when the Confederacy was defeated, when the supply is almost absent and the guards died along with their prisoners from hunger and disease).

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Prisoners in the "Douglas". One of the few surviving photo: northerners was ashamed…

The reasons for the high mortality in the camp of "Douglas": overpopulation; poor conditions of existence (pollution, hunger, disease); no medical care; ill-treatment of prisoners.

In wooden barracks contained only a small proportion of prisoners (several hundred), the rest lived in tents at any time of the year. Wooden floors in the barracks were removed, it was not possible under cover to dig tunnels for escape. As toilets are used in large open pits, the entire contents of which seeped into drinking water sources.

Rats, mice and insects was another source of disease. Rats and mice, and prisoners used to eat because I was starving. Food parcels that were trying to send to prisoners relatives, were not accepted. Motivation: in order to carry out "retribution" for "the revolt of the South".

Medicines in the camp has not been delivered. Disease was rampant: cholera, smallpox, dysentery. Even if one of the doctors inspecting the camp, tried to write reports about the bad conditions, superiors ignored these reports. Civilian doctors, who inspected camp Douglas on April 5, 1863, called it "an extermination camp".

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The horrors of the American concentration camps of the nineteenth century and the results of their work…

In order to deal with attempted escapes, prisoners are often deprived of clothing, and they were forced to wear bags with slits for arms and head. Most did not even have underwear. Blankets were removed, so during the cold of winter over the weak and wounded perished from the cold. Winter 1864 in Chicago was particularly cold. In just four months died 1091 prisoner. From June to December 1864, the mortality rate in the camp was 35%.

Punishment that was applied in the camp of "Douglas" to the imprisoned confederates:

— for various violations (not escape – it's either shot or bayoneted);

— in cold weather the guards were forced to remove offending pants and to sit on snow or frozen ground, holding that position for many hours;

— spanking straps with metal buckles. According to contemporaries, often whipped up until the edge of the metal buckles not prosekayut skin and muscle to the bone;

— the prisoner put his bare feet in the snow for a few hours. The guards saw to it that the prisoner did not move. This can be judged by the footprints in the snow. A after such punishment remained without fingers because of their frostbitten. If the person or shifted from place – his addition to the punishment of standing in the snow were flogged;

— if a person is too slow to react to the command lifting him suspended for a few hours at his feet. Also as punishment, prisoners were forced to stand in a flexed, head down, on straight legs, while the nose did not start to run blood and blood flow to the eyeball didn't make the prisoner scream in pain;

— large groups of prisoners (several dozen) were locked in a small room 10 feet square, with a very small window;

— another punishment – "riding the mule". Near the gate, high off the ground, was set frame, which was placed on a narrow beam. On the top bar planted prisoner and kept there until, until he lost consciousness and fell. Sometimes punishment has diversified, adding "spur": tying the feet of the offense buckets with sand.

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And did not immediately understand, from a concentration camp. But from the American…

This is not a complete list, but to create a General impression is sufficient. Records of prisoners at camp Douglas from the beginning was virtually nonexistent, and there is a perception that a lot of confederates who "went missing", actually died in this camp and were buried no one knows where, as the grave is also not taken into account. Some of the dead prisoners were buried in the swampy soil, and therefore no trace of the graves can be found.

According to the history of the camp "Douglas", about 12,000 prisoners survived the harsh winter of 1862 and 1863 when temperatures fell below zero. From 1400 to 1700 people were killed in the same period, but only 615 could be counted in a mass grave near the camp. From 700 to 1,000 people simply disappeared…

By December 1, 1866, it was possible to find only 1 402 graves (from the previously considered 2 968 graves). About 2 000 people to this day are still missing. How many confederates actually passed through the camp "Douglas" – unknown. To conduct research and reveal the facts.

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Another monument to those killed in the concentration camp. Grief has preserved in stone…

One statement (the authorship of which I failed to install), a concentration camp "Douglas" "destroyed not only the living but the dead."

P. P. S. the Journalist Ian Cobain in 2006 in The Guardian (UK) wrote about victims of the British torture camps during the cold war.

Photos of victims of a secret torture program, which was organized by the British authorities in the early days of the cold war, first published after the government hid them for 60 years. The pictures show men subjected to months of torture, hunger, sleeplessness, cold and beatings in one of several centres for interrogation, which fueled the war office in postwar Germany.

Some of the prisoners died of starvation or were beaten to death, while British soldiers accused of torture by thumbscrews and lower legs, taken from one prison of the Gestapo. However, the people in the photographs are not Nazis, and people suspected of being Communists and arrested in 1946 for the support of the Soviet Union, which was an ally 18 months earlier.

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The victims of the concentration camps of the cold war

Apparently, considering the war with the Soviet Union inevitable, the war Department began to look for the information about Russian army and its methods of intelligence. Dozens of women were also detained and tortured, as well as a number of these Soviet agents, suspected Nazis, and former members of the SS.

Of course, immediately calls for the Ministry of defence to admit everything that happened, and apologize. Nick Harvey, the representative of the liberal Democrats on defence, said, "it's too late Now that someone has suffered personal responsibility for their actions, but it's not too late MO to admit what happened."

Sherman Carroll of the Medical Foundation for the care of victims of torture said that the British government should also apologize and pay compensation to survivors. "The idea that Britain did not use torture during World war II and immediately after it, because they were considered "inefficient" – it is a myth that has been successfully distributed for decades, he said. – I must admit that all this took place."

MO rejected these calls, saying that questions about the centres for examination should be addressed to the foreign Office (British Ministry of foreign Affairs). Declassified documents of Whitehall (British government) has shown that members of the then labour government put a lot of effort to hide ill-treatment of detainees. This was done in part to, as he wrote one Minister, "to hide the fact that we apparently have treated internees in the same way as in the German concentration camps."..

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The cold war frightened, but not frightened…

After almost sixty years after this photograph are still classified. Four months ago, they were taken from the police report about the mistreatment of prisoners of one of the centers for interviews near Hanover, shortly before this document was issued by the guardian according to the Act on freedom of information.

Although this case was in the possession of the foreign Office, the photos were taken at the request of the Ministry of defence. In the end, they were issued after the appeal "the guardian". The pictures were taken in February 1947 by the officer of the Royal Navy, who considered it his duty to stop the torture program. Photos of other victims, made by the same officer who somehow disappeared from the archives of the foreign Office.

And documents about a secret interrogation centre under the control of the war Ministry, which was located in Central London in the years 1945-1948, and where, as we now know, a huge number of people were subjected to ill-treatment, still masked by the Ministry of defence. Officials say that these documents still can't be issued due to the fact that they were stained with asbestos.

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The victims of the cold war was very hot…

... Unknown, did the people in the photographs to recover from the abuse. It is also unclear from the study the available documents of the Ministry of defence and the foreign Office when I was stopped the torture of prisoners in Germany... Author: Sergei LEBEDEV, Professor, "War in Iraq" (St.-Petersburg) P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©

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