GULAG

gulag

(noun) a Russian prison camp for political prisoners

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gulag (plural gulags)

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

gulag (third-person singular simple present gulags, present participle gulaging, simple past and past participle gulaged)

(informal, transitive) To force into this prison or a similar system.

Source: Wiktionary



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