gulag
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There is not a word about those arrested, executed or imprisoned in the gulag, the Soviet Union's vast network of prison labour camps.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
As dark as the novel becomes, “the real darkness of the gulag there was so bleak that I had to cut it out,” the author has said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
If it is able to bring him back stateside, that is a de facto admission that it does indeed on some fundamental level retain custody of the people it’s sent to this gulag.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2025
The weakness of the regime, to the point that it collapsed like a soggy paper bag, was disguised by the fearsome and repressive gulag it still maintained.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
Gulo-mental: includes the region covered by the gulag and mentum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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