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Gulag

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Noun

1. gulag

a Russian prison camp for political prisoners

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Gulag

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noun
1. 
(formerly) the central administrative department of the Soviet security service, established in 1930, responsible for maintaining prisons and forced labour camps
2. (not capital)
any system used to silence dissents

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Gulag

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noun
1.  [also G-]
the system of prisons and labor camps, esp. for political prisoners, in the Soviet Union
, with the
2. 
such a prison or forced-labor camp, as in the Soviet Union
3. 
any place or situation regarded as like such a prison

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Gulag

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n.
1.
a. A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
b. A labor camp in this network.
2.
a. A network of prisons used especially for political dissidents.
b. A prison in such a network.

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