gulag
Example Sentences
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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
A lot of cities in Russia have these memorials that were generally put up in the 1990s, honoring the victims of the gulag and other repression during the Soviet Union.
From New York Times
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