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- DictionaryGu·lag/ˈɡo͞oˌläɡ/
noun
- 1. a system of labor camps maintained in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1955 in which many people died.
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Government agency in charge of the Soviet forced labor camp system
The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word Gulag originally referred only to the division of the Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from the 1930s to the early 1950s during Joseph Stalin's rule, but in English literature the term is popularly used for the system of forced labor throughout the Soviet era. The abbreviation GULAG ... Wikipedia
