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Gulag

2 stages from Russian to English.

Today it means a system of forced labor camps, or any oppressive institution
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Stage 1 of 2
GULAG
Russian · 1930s
"the Soviet labor camp administration"
an acronym for the Soviet agency administering forced labor camps
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Stage 2 of 2
gulag
English · 1970s
"a forced labor camp system"
popularized by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's writing, then used for any forced labor camp
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