gu·lag
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Definition of gulag
: the penal system of the U.S.S.R. consisting of a network of labor camps
also
: labor camp sense 1
Examples of gulag in a Sentence
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New logo, the Siberian skyline, complete with smokestacks and gulags. — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, "Doc's Morning Line: Here's the new motto for Cincinnati Bengals and Reds fans," 27 June 2017 That’s what the Chinese call their gulag archipelago of internment and reeducation camps in Xinjiang province, where an estimated million ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic people are being held. — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, "Why Won’t American Politicians Talk about Chinese Authoritarianism?," 26 June 2019 Grossman’s father, a former Menshevik, voluntarily exiled himself to a frozen yurt on the periphery of Kazakhstan to avoid the gulag. — Aaron Lake Smith, Harper's magazine, "The Trials of Vasily Grossman," 24 June 2019 Sauytbay’s testimony provided the first dramatic public evidence from a Chinese citizen of the expanding gulag in Xinjiang. — James Millward, The New York Review of Books, "‘Reeducating’ Xinjiang’s Muslims," 7 Feb. 2019 This at a time when the penalty for such an offense could be death by execution, or almost certain death in the gulag. — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, "Pavlik Morozov Is the Patron Saint of Cancel Culture," 2 July 2019 Nadym, a former gulag camp, is now a booming town of gas workers. — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, "U.S. Sanctions Bring Kremlin, Russian Oligarchs Closer Together," 29 Nov. 2018 Chinese authorities have rounded up more than a million Uyghurs, throwing them into a network of concentration camps or reeducation camps: a gulag. — Nr Editors, National Review, "The Week," 20 June 2019 This was after his grandparents had survived Stalin’s gulags, as well as the Soviet famine of 1934, a foodless time that killed between six and eight million people. — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, "Meeting Gorbachev, Werner Herzog's Documentary, Is a Historical Thriller for Today," 27 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gulag.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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