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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.
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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
As Solzhenitsyn suggested, writing about the gulag system was verboten in large part because Soviet authorities sought to deny or obfuscate its very existence.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
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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
As Solzhenitsyn suggested, writing about the gulag system was verboten in large part because Soviet authorities sought to deny or obfuscate its very existence.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
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Jones was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in 1996 and was in prison until 2021.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The law mandates that second-degree persistent felony offenders be sentenced to a prison term within the penalty range for the next highest degree of felony.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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At Parchman, the state’s troubled penitentiary, corrections workers were urging their colleagues to sign up.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
26 Aug. 2025
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After his conviction, Gray was sent to Angola, one of the most violent penitentiaries in the country at the time.—
Richard A. Webster,
ProPublica,
25 Aug. 2025
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He is being held on $2 million bail, online jail records show.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
8 Sep. 2025
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He was eventually sentenced to six years in jail for defrauding investors.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Sep. 2025
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To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays.—
ROBERT D. McFADDEN,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2017
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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Morgan shot and killed Lenny Scott, who was a jailhouse guard while Morgan was previously behind bars and had exposed the affair Morgan was having with a female guard after discovering a secret cellphone in his cell during a search, according to prosecutors with the CPS.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Brown is being detained at a jailhouse in Columbia, South Carolina.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Fort Massac on the Ohio River waterfront is a faithful reconstruction of an 1802 American fort built on the site of a French stockade erected in 1757 to safeguard the region from British invasion during the French & Indian War.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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During the Civil War, a deadline was a line of demarcation around the inner stockade of a prison camp, generally about 17 feet.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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Todd Chrisley was being released from a minimum-security federal prison camp in Pensacola, FL, Julie Chrisley was being released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY, and the rest of the family lives near Nashville.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
1 Sep. 2025
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Soon after giving the interviews in late July, she was transferred to a cushier, minimum-security prison camp in Texas.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
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The Chrisley family's grand return to TV after Todd and Julie's pardon releases from prison is marred by family strife that grew during the years of lockup.—
Ryan Coleman September 2,
EW.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Since that peak, CoreWeave’s stock price has steadily dropped, in part because of the end of the lockup period that allowed early investors to sell their shares.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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