gulag
Example Sentences
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The numbers that they were putting out there were larger than all of the people that went through the Russian gulags during the Soviet era.
From Salon
His 2011 memoir, “The Consolations of the Forest,” detailed his months of solitude in a remote cabin in Siberia, a region perhaps best known for its freezing gulags.
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
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
Ordering him to pay up is somehow or other equivalent to being killed in an arctic gulag.
From Salon
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