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During Stalinism, labour camps in the Soviet Union were officially called "Corrective labour camps." The term Labour colony; more exactly, "Corrective labour colony", (исправительно-трудовая колония, '''ИТК'''), was also in use and referred to camps that housed prisoners with shorter average sentences.


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  • Imperial Russia operated a system of remote Siberia n forced labor camps as part of its regular judicial system, called Katorga . Though conditions were difficult, they were mild compared to some of the later Stalinist camps.


  • The Soviet government took over the already extensive Katorga system and expanded it immensely, eventually organizing the Gulag to run the camps. These camps were notorious for their extremely rough conditions; new prisoner death rate was as high as 80% at some camps. During and after the Great Purges , the Gulag camps housed millions of prisoners. Stalin used them both as a source of cheap labor, and as indirect Extermination Camp s. In 1954 , a year after Stalin's death, the new Soviet government of Nikita Khrushchev began to release political prisoners and close down the camps. By the end of the 1950s, virtually all "corrective labor camps" were dissolved. Officially, the Gulag was terminated by the MVD order 20 of January 25 , 1960 .


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  • The Communist Party Of China has operated many labour camps for some kinds of crimes. Many leaders of China were put into labor camps after Purge s, including Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi . As a matter of fact, hundreds - if not thousands - of labor camps still exist in modern day China, housing political prisoners and dissidents along side dangerous criminals.


  • The Khmer Rouge operated labour camps in Cambodia following their seizure of power, for the "rehabilitation" of the (loosely defined) bourgeois classes.


  • In Communist Romania , labour camps were operated for projects such as the building of the Danube-Black Sea Canal and the dessication of the Great Brăila Island , on which enemies of the regime were "re-educated" by forced labour. Most of the people that worked on such projects never got out alive.



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