Thesaurus results for STALAG

stalag

noun

as in gulag

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Recent Examples of stalag German shepherds seemed to patrol every yard, as if guarding some suburban stalag. —

Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026 To keep captive spirits up in the stalag, the prisoners staged makeshift plays. —

Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017 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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The roots of Soviet and post-Soviet homophobia lie not in religion, but in the legacy of the Soviet gulag—where being homosexual was considered the worst thing that could befall a man.

— Mikhail Zygar, Vanity Fair, 7 Jan. 2026
The cast fragmented, with the Byers family and El trying to start over in California while Hopper languished in a tonally dissonant Soviet gulag, as though the Duffers didn’t realize that what people loved most about Stranger Things was its grounding in Hawkins.

— Judy Berman, Time, 26 Dec. 2025