gulag - Definition from the JAIL AND PUNISHMENT topic - SOCIETY

Topic: JAIL AND PUNISHMENT

Date:	1900-2000
Language:	Russian
Origin:	Glavnoe Upravlenie Ispravitel'no-trudovykh Lagerei 'Chief Directorate of Labor Camps'

gulag
noun

gu‧lag

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[countable]

SCJ one of a group of prison camps in the former USSR, where conditions were very bad

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