gulag
pronunciation
How to pronounce gulag in British English:
UK [gu:'lɑ:g]
How to pronounce gulag in American English:
US [ˈɡulɑɡ]
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- Noun:
- a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
Word Origin
- gulag (n.)
- system of prisons and labor camps, especially for political detainees, in the former Soviet Union; rough acronym from Russian Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagerei "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps," set up in 1931.
Example
- 1. Spiegel : the capital of the stalinist gulag , 6000 kilometers from moscow .
- 2. Begin spent only a few months , not eight years , in the gulag .
- 3. North korea has operated political prison camps for more than 50 years , twice as long as the gulag in the former soviet union .
- 4. Mr surkov 's science town has less in common with palo alto than with the closed soviet research towns that mostly grew out of the gulag system .
- 5. In recent years , stark has interviewed over 100 former gulag prisoners from around europe about their time in the camps and their lives since then .