Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at gulags.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Gulags.

Examples

  • As things stand, the only way your average Russian can find out about the Gulags is the one museum on the topic, which is in the Urals, 150 miles from the nearest large town.

    The Whisperers and digital lives Maxine 2009

  • As things stand, the only way your average Russian can find out about the Gulags is the one museum on the topic, which is in the Urals, 150 miles from the nearest large town.

    Web/Tech Maxine 2009

  • As things stand, the only way your average Russian can find out about the Gulags is the one museum on the topic, which is in the Urals, 150 miles from the nearest large town.

    The Whisperers and digital lives Maxine 2009

  • As things stand, the only way your average Russian can find out about the Gulags is the one museum on the topic, which is in the Urals, 150 miles from the nearest large town.

    February 2009 Maxine 2009

  • Solzhenitsyn called it the Gulag Archipelago — like islands in a sea of frozen steppe, the Gulags were a state within the state.

    Solzhenitsyn: My Murdered Grandfather’s Voice 2008

  • USSR's legal black hole was called Gulags, Nazi Germany's was called Concentration Camps.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010

  • From reading his Dahl's biography "boy" it's easy to see where he, and so many other British authors, get their twisted ideas from; the harsh and cruel British Gulags aka boarding schools.

    Cynical-C Blog 2010

  • Russian prisons are about one step up from the infamous Gulags, meaning the prisoners might not freeze their balls off, will not be worked to death and will actually get food that is kind of nourishing.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

  • And Existentialism's focus on individual freedom and responsibility made it a heroic moral responder to the combined atrocities of the Nanking Massacre, the firebombing of Europe, the Holocaust and death camps, the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the forced labor and genocide of the Gulags, and the virtual devastation of the old economies, laws and moral authorities that were leveled with the war.

    G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

  • And Existentialism's focus on individual freedom and responsibility made it a heroic moral responder to the combined atrocities of the Nanking Massacre, the firebombing of Europe, the Holocaust and death camps, the incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the forced labor and genocide of the Gulags, and the virtual devastation of the old economies, laws and moral authorities that were leveled with the war.

    G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.