gulag

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Also GULAG

   Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).

2. 2

   A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.

   • Nevertheless, the Trump administration has continued to insist that Abrego Garcia is a dangerous gang member in order to justify sending him to an overseas Gulag that has been accused of torturing inmates.
   • The subtext of Knowles’s tweet was also clear: [Nayib] Bukele has partnered with the Trump administration to hold immigrants deported from America, with no due process, in El Salvador’s most notorious gulag.
3. 3

   A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely…

   A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.

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   1. 4

      To compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.

      • Regulative censorships can be amended or revolutionized in ways that raise or lower bodycounts, numbers of books banned or citizens ghettoed or gulaged.
   2. 5

      Alternative letter-case form of gulag.

   3. 6

      The government agency in charge of the Soviet Union's network of forced labour camps,…

      The government agency in charge of the Soviet Union's network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960.

      • The millions of slave-labourers at the disposal of GULAG played an important economic role, and indeed became accepted as a normal component of the Soviet economy.

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