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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
/ ˈɡ³Ü˱ôæɡ /
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.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of gulag1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of gulag1
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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.â€
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.
That is a large proportion of the more than 100,000 people, almost all men but including thousands of women – as well as children – who disappeared without trace into Bashar al-Assad's gulag.
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