gulag

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There's even a video in which an American bigot compares being criticized online to the plight of Soviet dissidents thrown in a gulag.

From Salon

“You know, our usual Russian grumbling, taxes and corruption. We criticize — the czars, Stalin and his gulag, Yeltsin — and we accept.”

From New York Times

What followed were secret police raids, gulags, mass torture, extrajudicial killings and public executions.

From Seattle Times

Both young men had disappeared into Myanmar's gulag, a network of prisons and interrogation centres used for decades to detain and torture dissidents.

From BBC

The Soviet Union’s far-flung gulag system of prison camps provided inmate labor to develop industries such as mining and logging.

From Washington Times