gulag

Example Sentences

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He will accuse China of building "a 21st-century version of the gulag archipelago" and "locking up over a million people at the height of this campaign, often for doing nothing more than observing their religion".

From Reuters

Its leader, Doyle, has tasked his team of vigilantes, most of them recovering addicts, with freeing rehab patients who will otherwise shrivel up and die in HNS’ gulags.

From Los Angeles Times

During the 20th century, the practice of mass repression grew to immense proportions in Joseph Stalin’s gulag system of forced labor camps.

From Washington Post

Its professors and students were ostracized, with scores sent to the gulags.

From New York Times

He also said his own history — he did not meet his father until age 11 because his father had spent 10 years in a gulag — drove him to denounce violence and war.

From New York Times