Definition of Gulag

the justice system that uses forced work camps as punishment

Examples of Gulag in a sentence

Only a few have escaped the gulag in North Korea, but the former prisoners claim the camps are brutal, dangerous and work people to death.  🔊

Following World War II, some of the prisoners of war were sent to Russia who died from exhaustion laboring in the gulag.  🔊

Most of the concentration camps in the Holocaust were death camps, but once in a while a gulag was built for labor even though many prisoners died there too.  🔊

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