gulag
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- noun
- /ˈɡuːlɑːɡ/
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gulag
- Then he was put on trial, convicted of slandering the USSR, and sentenced to three years in the Gulag.
- Gulag Archipelago
- gulag prisoners
- Gulag camp
You know, people get put in gulags and people get that's not right.
- You know, people get put in gulags and people get that's not right.
- Siberia, I feel, is where they send people, like to gulags or like prison.
- I mean, they put political dissenters in, you know, the gulags.
- You're released from the gulag, men.
- He killed on occasion the death of millions of people who who died in the gulag.
- There are no industrial concentration camps or gulags, no acts of institutional discrimination, no mass killings.
- But they've been able to do that without gulags and without mass killings and without repression of any rights.
- Because surely, I mean, Stalin himself must know receiving, you know, all of these telegrams from, from people in the gulags.
- I mean, under authoritarian regimes, if you hold a different view, you know, off to the gulag, you're not your, your views are, are delegitimized.
- Every man, as he wrote in Gulag Archipelago.
- There was a great book called, you know, Gulag Archipelago by Silts and Nathan.
- Like obviously you've read the Gulag Archipelago.
- There was a there was a great book called, you know, Gulag Archipelago by Siltzenatsen.
- There was a there was a great book called, you know, Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn.
- Alas, I don't have to believe in the gulag or Gatsby or colonial taxes.
- I think it was part Well, first of all, this is before we knew about the gulags, OK.
- Whoever wins the Emmy for best talk show will be sent to a camp and the gulag goes to.
Examples
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Many political dissidents were sent to the gulag during the Stalin era.
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Fifteen years in the Gulag is a long time.
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All the best doctors are in the gulag, or dead.
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How old were you when he was sent to the Gulag?
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You know about the Gulag?
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These rumors of the gulag... they are all lies.
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People died from hunger; they died in gulag camps... yes, no doubt.
Blog text (26) -
Mochulsky's memoir is of interest because he tells a coherent story of life in the Gulag during the Great Patriotic War.
Academic text (2011) -
Life in the gulag was harsh, with limited food and brutal working conditions.
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The documentary revealed the inhumane treatment of prisoners in the gulag system.
Synonyms
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5.6
A place or situation that makes someone feel trapped
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5.6
A place where many people are imprisoned without trial in harsh, crowded conditions
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5.3
A camp where guards keep people against their will, often during war
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7.5
A prison where people are forced to work, often for political reasons
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8.3
A guarded camp where prisoners are kept in harsh conditions
How Harsh
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Etymology
Gulag comes from a Russian short form GULAG, the name of the government office that ran prison camps and whose words mean 'main administration of labor camps'. So today gulag is used for the whole system of harsh Soviet prison camps.