Meaning of gulag | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of gulag.
   alt-of
2. Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
   historical
3. 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.
   historical
4. A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
   broadly
5. A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
   also, broadly, figuratively

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Examples

“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.”

“Nevertheless, the Trump administration has continued to insist that Abrego Garcia is a dangerous gang member in order⟳ to justify⟳ sending him to an overseas Gulag that has been accused of torturing inmates.”

“The subtext of Knowles’s tweet was also clear: [Nayib] Bukele has partnered with the Trump administration to hold⟳ immigrants deported from America, with no due process⟳, in El Salvador’s most notorious gulag.”

“The millions of slave-labourers at the disposal of GULAG played an important economic role, and indeed became accepted as a normal component of the Soviet economy.”

“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.”

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