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gulag

noun as in labor camp

noun as in prison camp

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It could be a thoughtless joke, reading a banned book, harboring migrants marked for deportation, impeding untrammeled “drill-baby-drill” resource extraction, or attending an underground reproductive health clinic that sends us to the new Trump gulag.

From Salon

"Just a few weeks ago, I was absolutely certain I would die in Putin's gulag," he told the Washington Post on Wednesday.

From BBC

“The fear and terror were overwhelming. I could accept my own death, but I could not bear the thought of my family being dragged to a gulag,” he says.

From BBC

Divorcing education from philosophical, political and social ambitions creates a culture in which people view public-health measures during a pandemic as stepping stones to the gulag.

From Salon

Ordering him to pay up is somehow or other equivalent to being killed in an arctic gulag.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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