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gulag::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | internment camp, pow camp, prison camp, prisoner of war camp |
Examples of gulag
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Doesn't Alanis Morissette sound as if she's performing at riflepoint in a gulag?
From the time.com
If their numbers were a little longer, they'd look like prisoners in the gulag.
From the suntimes.com
The picture those witnesses drew of North Korea was of one vast and brutal gulag.
From the guardian.co.uk
The reality of six million people in the US penal-industrial gulag is sinking in.
From the infowars.com
For three decades the diminutive 50-year-old endured life in a North Korean gulag.
From the independent.co.uk
Obtaining testimony about North Korea's gulag system is notoriously difficult.
From the independent.co.uk
I thought I was going to take the gulag tour, as they would call it in Moscow.
From the theatlantic.com
A human rights activist, Natan Sharansky spent nine years in the Soviet gulag.
From the washingtonpost.com
Tell that to the gulag, through which one in 40 of the population have passed.
From the economist.com
- A Russian prison camp for political prisoners
- The Gulag or GULag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet penal labor camp systems. ...
- Gulag is a 1985 drama film by Roger Young, aired originally on HBO and later released to home video.
- Main Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps. The penal system of the Soviet Union, consisting of a network of harsh labor camps where criminals and political prisoners were forced to serve sentences.
- The name given to Stalin's prison camps. Many were built in the harshest of conditions - frequently Siberia. The treatment given to these prisoners was harsh and extreme.
- The system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union (USSR), that were immeasurably worse than anything the Czarist regime had imposed, which were made infamous by the revelations of "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1973-5); term is an acronym for the "Main ...
