Is “Gulag” a Scrabble word?
Yes
GULAG
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General English word list
Meaning of Gulag
/ˈɡu.lɑɡ/
noun
1.A prison camp.
2.The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
“One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence. [Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy; By David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin and Thomas Lamont. National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University]”
verb
1.To force into this prison or a similar system.