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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Many thousands of scientists were killed or sent to the gulag, where a significant percentage died.
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Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Only last year, the State Department reported a laundry list of El Salvador’s offenses, including lethal prison conditions — a convenient about-face for an administration using these same prisons as gulags for its deported immigrants.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Polar gulags are also the preferred place to send political prisoners who threaten the government, such as the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died under suspicious circumstances in one such prison in 2024.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Assad stayed in power by killing his own people, deploying chemical weapons and Russian bombs, and torturing and murdering them in an underground network of gulags.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 14 May 2025
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Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Only last year, the State Department reported a laundry list of El Salvador’s offenses, including lethal prison conditions — a convenient about-face for an administration using these same prisons as gulags for its deported immigrants.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Polar gulags are also the preferred place to send political prisoners who threaten the government, such as the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died under suspicious circumstances in one such prison in 2024.
—Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Assad stayed in power by killing his own people, deploying chemical weapons and Russian bombs, and torturing and murdering them in an underground network of gulags.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 14 May 2025
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gulag. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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