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"Gulag" Definition

noun

A forced labor camp or prison, especially for political dissidents.
A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
A place or situation of great suffering and hardship, likened to the atmosphere in a prison system or a forced labor camp.
The penal system of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consisting of a network of labor camps.