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| gu·lag [ g lg ] (plural gu·lags) |
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1. political prison in former USSR: a prison or labor camp in the former Soviet Union, to which opponents of the government were sent
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2. prison camp network in former USSR: the network of political prisons and labor camps in the former Soviet Union
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3. former Soviet prisons department: the department of the former Soviet security service that was responsible for running the network of political prisons
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4. prison for dissenters: any place that dissenters are sent to, or the isolating or imprisoning of dissenters
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| [Mid-20th century. < Russian, acronym < Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelno-trudovykh lagerei "Chief Administration for Corrective Labor Camps"] |
