[The most frequent causes of prisoner's disease and death in Soviet labour camps].
First concentration camps came into being as Soviet labour camps in captured by Bolsheviks Russia. The labour camps performed repressive and exterminatory functions besides they were the reservoir of oppression and relentless exploitation of man power. They were characterized by extreme death-rate of prisoners and lasting for hours exhausting work. Ones died mainly due to psychophysical weakness, contagious diseases, hypertension, heart and kidney diseases and accidents at work. A number of Soviet labour camps victims is estimated at several millions of human beings.
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Katedra i Zakład Historii Medycyny i Farmacji Akademii Medycznej w Łodzi.
D002423:Cause of Death; D003148:Communism / Q000266:history*; D003209:Concentration Camps / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009026:Mortality; D011329:Prisoners / Q000266:history* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014586:USSR