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Recent Examples of gulag
Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union was a murderous gulag.
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Bryan C. Donohue, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2024
Around 200,000 Lithuanians were deported to the gulags during that period, or executed for taking up arms against the occupiers.
—Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
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Bryan C. Donohue, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2024
Around 200,000 Lithuanians were deported to the gulags during that period, or executed for taking up arms against the occupiers.
—Tomas Dapkus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
The World Wars, the gulags, the camps, the colonies, and so on—these dismal chapters of modernity essentially predate our protagonist’s agreeable personal experience of the political sphere.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
—Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
Noun
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He's scored early victories in getting Latin American countries to cooperate on deportation flights, including a high-profile prison deal with El Salvador.—
Dave Lawler,
Axios,
1 Apr. 2025
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Since his detention, Mangione has seen supporters donate thousands of dollars for his defense fund, gifts sent to his prison, and letters showing support and asking for his response.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
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The money will help sustain El Salvador’s penitentiary system, which currently costs $200 million a year.—
Michael Rios,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2025
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In Oklahoma, 56-year-old Wendell Grissom was declared dead by lethal injection at the penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Trumbo and [novelists] Howard Fast and Dashiell Hammett went to jail.—
Sara Georgini,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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Castellanos was kept in jail because there was no monitoring device for him — something out of Tyler’s control — and Chaplin was arrested at an unnamed law enforcement agency’s discretion, the vendor said.—
Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Apr. 2025
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There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.—
Robert Zaretsky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2011
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In a teaser clip, Manson can be heard confessing to additional crimes while on a jailhouse phone call.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Informant Reform In Kansas, lawmakers have turned their attention to the use of jailhouse informants—another common factor in wrongful convictions.—
Michelle Mbekeani,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
3 Sep. 2024
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Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta.—
Erin Couch,
The Enquirer,
15 July 2024
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In anticipation of these cuts, BOP Director Colette Peters has already closed FCI Dublin and six male prison camps, signaling the likelihood of further closures and consolidations.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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The View From The Ground: A Federal Prison Crisis Federal prison camps are often portrayed as the safest and easiest to manage within theFederal Bureau of Prisons.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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Once Joe left alone — with Halsey (Phil Burke), the suspect, in lockup — the lights flicker out.—
Lisa de los Reyes,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2025
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The report proposes changes that are intended to ease overcrowding in the lockups and assist neighborhood that would have the new, smaller jails.—
Hurubie Meko,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Gulag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulag. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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