gulag
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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 • Jan. 26, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
Its warnings, then as now, certainly sound extremely serious—McCarthyism, witch hunts, and gulags are no laughing matter.
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2025
Pussy Riot released a song, “Like a Red Prison,” that includes the line “Balanda! Propaganda!” in reference to a gruel that has been fed to prisoners since the era of the gulags.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022
He could talk about such subjects as the French Revolution and the Siberian gulags, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the discourses of Disraeli.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing gulag
Russia - Middle School and High School
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