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gulag

/ˈɡuˌlɑɡ/

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What does gulag mean?

noun

  1. A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
  2. (figuratively) A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.

verb

  1. (figuratively, informal) To compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.
More meanings (3)

noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of gulag.
  2. (historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).

proper noun

  1. (historical) The government agency in charge of the Soviet Union's network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960.
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