How to pronounce“gulag”in English
nounreason for calling the liberal archipelago is partly because when I imagine its opposite I think of salt in its ins idea of the
Gulag Archipelago maybe it's something that people aren't so familiar with nowadays but in the 1970s Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote his his great
masterpiece The Gulag Archipelago to describe the system of labour camps to which political prisoners were sent across the the Soviet Union and in these
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Definitions of “gulag”
Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
“One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence.”
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.”
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.”