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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
/ ˈɡːæɡ /
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.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gulag1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gulag1
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When someone's rage is justified, such as when their family member has been disappeared to an El Salvadoran gulag for Kristi Noem's photo shoot, it's unsettling.
In El Salvador, “the United States now has a tropical gulag,” said Regina Bateson, a political scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
“And we take the elites — for just one night — and we take them down to the D.C. gulag.”
A Sunni like himself, he added, would have swiftly received a bullet to the head in any of Assad’s gulags.
They included 2003's I Am David, about a boy who escapes a gulag in Bulgaria, and the comedy Bringing Down the House, starring Steve Martin, from the same year.
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