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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What kind of people approve of a government that extra-judicially kidnaps innocents and renders them into the hands of a foreign gulag—and then hides behind that government when ordered by an American court to bring them back?
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Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
One man who was a dissident imprisoned in a Soviet gulag—future Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky—had this to say about hearing of Reagan's description of the Soviet Union as an evil empire.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
In the Soviet Union, dissenting biologists were shipped to the gulag.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
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Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
One man who was a dissident imprisoned in a Soviet gulag—future Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky—had this to say about hearing of Reagan's description of the Soviet Union as an evil empire.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
In the Soviet Union, dissenting biologists were shipped to the gulag.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
That is a memoir by Kang Chol-hwan about the North Korean gulag.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gulag. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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