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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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