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gulag

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gu⋅lag

  [goo-lahg]
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–noun (sometimes initial capital letter)
1. the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union.
2. a Soviet forced-labor camp.
3. any prison or detention camp, esp. for political prisoners.
Origin:
1970–75; < Russ Gulág, acronym from Glávnoe upravlénie ispravítelʾno-trudovýkh lageréĭ Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps
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gu·lag also Gu·lag   (gōō'läg)   
n.  

  1. A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.

  2. A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents.

  3. A place or situation of great suffering and hardship, likened to the atmosphere in a prison system or a forced labor camp.


[Russian Gulag, from G(lavnoe) u(pravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh) lag(ereĭ), Chief Administration (of Correctional Labor) Camps.]
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