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gulag
[goo-lahg]
noun
the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union.
a Soviet forced-labor camp.
any prison or detention camp, especially for political prisoners.
Gulag
/ ˈɡuːlæɡ /
noun
(formerly) the central administrative department of the Soviet security service, established in 1930, responsible for maintaining prisons and forced labour camps
(not capital) any system used to silence dissents
gulag
A system of prison camps inside the former Soviet Union used for political prisoners. Under Joseph Stalin, millions of prisoners in these camps died from starvation and maltreatment. This system was given worldwide attention in the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Gulag is an acronym in Russian of the name meaning Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps.
Word History and Origins
Origin of gulag1
Word History and Origins
Origin of gulag1
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He even agreed to betray informants under U.S. protection to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in exchange for an agreement to lock up purported Venezuelan gang members in El Salvador’s gruesome gulag.
Navalny’s transfer in December 2023 to a remote prison in the Arctic, to a facility once part of the Soviet-era gulag forced labor system, made access to him almost impossible, his wife said.
In the Soviet Union, jokes about Joseph Stalin or the Communist Party were treated as serious crimes against the state, warranting time in the gulag.
They are deporting people to foreign gulags and countries with which they have no connection, family, money or support.
He has ordered hundreds of people to be deprived of liberty in a foreign gulag, without charge or trial, and his administration is illegally impounding funds authorized by Congress.
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