often capitalized
: the penal system of the Soviet Union consisting of a network of labor camps
also
: labor camp sense 1
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Around 200,000 Lithuanians were deported to the gulags during that period, or executed for taking up arms against the occupiers.
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Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Under a new decree, relatives of people who had defected during the last three years were to be imprisoned in Soviet-style gulags or banished without supplies to a wilderness in the country’s far north.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
Several of the women and their family members – their loyalty now suspect – were sentenced to long prison terms in the gulags.
—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
He was arrested and detained in Russia in 2019 and spent nearly three years in a Russian gulag.
—Dallas News, 14 June 2022
Conservatives insist that 1984 and Animal Farm were about not just Stalin and the gulags but also inevitable tendencies of collectivist societies on ...
—Michael Washburn, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Under a new decree, relatives of people who had defected during the last three years were to be imprisoned in Soviet-style gulags or banished without supplies to a wilderness in the country’s far north.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
Several of the women and their family members – their loyalty now suspect – were sentenced to long prison terms in the gulags.
—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
He was arrested and detained in Russia in 2019 and spent nearly three years in a Russian gulag.
—Dallas News, 14 June 2022
Conservatives insist that 1984 and Animal Farm were about not just Stalin and the gulags but also inevitable tendencies of collectivist societies on ...
—Michael Washburn, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
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