gulag
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Historians debate how many people moved through the Soviet gulag, whether it was 18 million or 20 million people in more than two decades who went through that system.
From Slate • Feb. 17, 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
They included 2003's I Am David, about a boy who escapes a gulag in Bulgaria, and the comedy Bringing Down the House, starring Steve Martin, from the same year.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025
Ordering him to pay up is somehow or other equivalent to being killed in an arctic gulag.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2024
Gular suture: the line of division between the gulag or throat and the gene or cheeks.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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