gulag

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But the gulag was still the gulag, and the state was still expansionist, and they still waged proxy wars in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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  1. noun A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
  2. noun A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents.
  3. noun A place or situation of great suffering and hardship, likened to the atmosphere in a prison system or a forced labor camp.

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  • Including Adam Candy's Journal Late that afternoon, just prior to “dinner,” guard/messenger/probably just nearest available warm body showed up (with no appointment—what kind of gulag is this?) —  AnalogSFF,September2008
  • This is not a gulag, your associates were not heading to a torture chamber. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • By contrast, scholarly study of Stalinism and the gulag is relatively neglected. —  The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
  • But the gulag was still the gulag, and the state was still expansionist, and they still waged proxy wars in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. —  The Swamp
  • To Cher, a gulag is a place with no Rodeo Drive to shop on. —  Hot Air » Top Picks
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  1. Russian Gulag, from G(lavnoe) u(pravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh) lag(ereĭ), Chief Administration (of Correctional Labor) Camps.
 

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