The Russian prison system, known as the Gulag, was a very brutal place.
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Gulag
/ˈɡuːlɑɡ/
Synonyms for "gulag" (6 found)
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Noun(2 words)
gulag systemjail
Strong matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
labor camp network
Related words (3)
Noun(3 words)
labor camp systempenal labor camp networkpenal system
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6 entriesPOW campinternment camppenal institutionpenal systemprison campprisoner of war camp
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3 entriescorrective labor camplabor campspecial camp
Collocations
6 entriesGulag administrationGulag archipelagoSoviet Gulagforced laborlabor camp systempenal system
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1 entriesSample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Tom managed to escape from a gulag in Siberia.
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Oleg Volkov, the deputy director of the local museum, tells a visitor that the Soviet authorities converted a Russian Orthodox monastery that had been built centuries before into the Solovki Gulag.
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Fyodor spent ten years in a gulag.
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