gulag

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The group decided to form an archive, museum and library to memorialize those who were imprisoned or died in the Soviet gulag, a system of brutal prison camps.

From Washington Post

Life in the camps is as brutal as in the Soviet gulag, according to first-person accounts that have filtered out.

From Washington Post

The “Stranger Things” star went on to lament the bad rap given to communism due to its historical track record of police states, gulags, human rights abuses, and mass murder.

From Washington Times

Meanwhile, the real places that bore witness to Stalin-era crimes — executions, purges and exiles to Siberian gulags — are ignored or have been bulldozed over.

From Washington Post

Clark confessed that she did not meet her quarantine goals of learning conversational Italian or writing a tour bus cookbook, but she did read some books about the gulag.

From New York Times