GULAG
/ˈɡu.lɑɡ/
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Definition
/ˈɡu.lɑɡ/
noun
- A prison camp.
- The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.“One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence. [Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy; By David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin and Thomas Lamont. National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University]”
verb
- To force into this prison or a similar system.
Source: Wiktionary
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