often capitalized
: the penal system of the Soviet Union consisting of a network of labor camps
also
: labor camp sense 1
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Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union was a murderous gulag.
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Bryan C. Donohue, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2024
Around 200,000 Lithuanians were deported to the gulags during that period, or executed for taking up arms against the occupiers.
—Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
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Bryan C. Donohue, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2024
Around 200,000 Lithuanians were deported to the gulags during that period, or executed for taking up arms against the occupiers.
—Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gulag. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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