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▸ noun:  (historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
▸ noun:  (by extension)
▸ noun:  A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
▸ noun:  (also figuratively) A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
▸ verb:  (transitive, informal, also figuratively) To compel (someone) into a forced labour camp or a similar place of confinement or exile.
▸ noun:  (historical) The government agency in charge of the Soviet Union's network of forced labour camps, which was established in 1918 and formally abolished in 1960.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of gulag [(historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).]
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of gulag [(historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).]prison, penitentiary, hellhole, laogai, jail, communist, supermax, reeducation, Gitmo, nuthouse, more...

soviet prison camp,  soviet labour camp,  soviet work camp,  soviet prison,  soviet camp

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