gulag
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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
It gives the Surge plenty of time to pack our gulag go-bag and leave it by the front door.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2024
In July 2022, when Griner was sentenced to her nine-year prison sentence, she was transferred to a repurposed Soviet-era gulag in Mordovia in October.
From Salon • May 3, 2024
Their erstwhile central European co-inmates in the gulag of communism are now keen to distance themselves.
From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Vaknin, Samuel
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