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

gulag

 noun
     
Related topics: Jail and punishment
gu‧lag [countable]
SCJ one of a group of prison camps in the former USSR, where conditions were very bad
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