gulag English

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What does gulag mean?

gulag

— noun a Russian prison camp for political prisoners

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Simple sentences

Tom managed to escape from a gulag in Siberia.

Movie subtitles

My mother still would be in Soviet gulag if it hadn't been for a man like Mr Thornton.

Lunar V, an orbiting gulag.

This is the gulag Rura Penthe.

He escaped from the Gulag.

This gulag could use a little colour, some excitement.

Rembrandt Brown, I find you guilty of treason, and I sentence you to 15 years in the Alaskan Gulag, without the possibility of parole.

A gulag. a place where the guilty rule the innocent.

I am the scream of the gulag.

This is some leftover gulag trip you're on.

I was seven years in Soviet gulag.

It's an old gulag trick.

It was never like this in gulag.

Means being sent to Gulag.

You got to go a Gulag and end up in a mass grave with a bullet in the back of your head.

Well, it might be difficult to get that close to the Gulag to find out.

Another trip to the gulag?

They sent me to the gulag.

Or as I affectionately refer to it, the gulag.

Lunar V-- an orbiting gulag.

A gulag-- a place where the guilty rule the innocent.

Had her topped. One-way ticket to the Gulag.

The guy who was in the gulag?

You see? This is some leftover gulag trip you're on.

I can't tell the cream of Seattle's gourmet set that I've moved out of the Montana and into that gulag with a game room.

You ever hear about the Russian gulag?

The K.G.B., they throw my mother in the Gulag!

Who knows what this guy is thinking, what gulag he escaped from.

I'll send you to a gulag later.

So then they sent me to the Gulag.

Listen. the old man, he didn't break in '53, or in the Gulag, or later when they hold him in.

News and current affairs

All forms of leftist ideology - indeed, everything that smacked of collective idealism - came to be viewed as misguided utopianism that could lead only to the Gulag.

A human rights defender, Gabriel Andreescu, compared the looming fate of the street dogs with the Holocaust and Gulag.

Hadjiev's two other brothers, as well as his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, have been in Turkmenistan's notorious penal gulag since 2002, when they were sentenced to lengthy prison terms.

Now it was being restored as a Gulag Museum by Memorial, a human-rights group founded by the dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, to remind Russians of their totalitarian past.

Today, the Gulag Museum is under different management.

It was luxurious, but similar to a gulag with its high perimeter fences and guards.

A stupid competition arose between two nightmares, the Holocaust and the Gulag, totalitarian Nazism and totalitarian communism.

The release of the Gulag prisoners that followed his speech continued, but it was done in silence.

The idea of the Gulag entered our literature with Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Neither censorship nor the gulag ever completely suppressed intellectual life in Russia.

Gusinsky, after all, was arrested in the glare of news cameras, not shipped off to the gulag in the dark of night.

The regime depended on show trials and gulag labor, and used unprecedented violence to consolidate the power of dogmatic, ascetic bureaucrats.

Barking Alsatian dogs, stern guards, and waiters dressed in inmate uniforms work hard to recreate the gulag's sinister atmosphere.

While Holocaust deniers have been purged from German universities, Russian universities employ a number of professors of Russian history who conspicuously maintain the Gulag's absence from their lectures.

They were savage colonial conflicts under the Czar and almost genocidal under Stalin, who deported the whole Chechen population, a third of which perished during their transfer to the Gulag.

Along with a passport comes an offer of a free apartment in the Mordovia region (still a Gulag site) and even a job as the local culture minister.

Nor is it a communist dictatorship, with the likes of Joseph Stalin using the threat of the Gulag to discourage political expression.

This summer, he publicly instructed his education minister to include passages from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago in the high school curriculum.

The most arresting but unrecognized of all post-Soviet monuments to the Gulag is the 500 ruble banknote, issued in the late 1990's and widely used today.

It depicts the Solovki monastery, a historical complex on an island in the White Sea, which also served as the earliest and one of the most important camps in the Gulag.

In Russia, only two Gulag sites, in Solovki and in Perm, have small museums that show conditions in the camps, the techniques of torture and murder, the documents, and the portraits.

Close to the Belomorkanal, one of the Gulag's major construction sites, a large mass grave was uncovered at Sandarmokh.

Of course, the guards know that their job is to ensure that everyone is safe and comfortable, but the Gulag-type notion of what a guard does is too embedded to be removed.

The Soviet leadership had relied then upon shootings and deportations to the Gulag to preempt opposition.

As Lemkin knew, terror followed famine: peasants who survived hunger and the Gulag became Stalin's next victims.