gulag
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Memorial was founded in the late 1980s to document victims of Soviet-era political repression during which millions of people perished in the Gulag penal system.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
Guantanamo is a high-profile location that Amnesty International once termed “the Gulag of our time.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
In 2017, he persuaded local authorities to erect a monument to its victims - a stone taken from the Solovetsky islands in Russia's far north, the site of the Soviet Union's first Gulag prison camp.
From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2022
Alekhina served her time in two regular prisons and says traditions set back in the days of Joseph Stalin's Gulag system are well alive.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2022
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said in 2010 that “The Gulag Archipelago,” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s indictment of the Soviet penal system, should be essential reading for Russian students.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
Vocabulary lists containing gulag
Russia - Middle School and High School
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