Sekirov Dictionary

gulag

/ˈɡuːlɑɡ/

noun 3
verb 1
forms 7

noun3

(historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.

verb1

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(informal) 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. — 1988

forms

gulaged · gulagged · gulagging · gulaging · gulags · GULAGs · Gulags

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