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- noun Plural form of
gulag .
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Examples
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Make sure all children are left behind in gulags that should be labelled “indoctrination camps”?
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When a government official stands on the floor of Congress and declares the war lost; or travels to Syria, a state-sponsor of terror, and meets with the leadership that is funneling insurgents into Iraq to kill Americans; or, publicly compares our military men and women to Nazis, Soviets in gulags, and Pol Pot; or refers to our Marines as “cold blooded killers” before an ongoing investigation is completed and charges filed, they have crossed the line and have taken their politics to the battlefield.
Balkinization 2007
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When a government official stands on the floor of Congress and declares the war lost; or travels to Syria, a state-sponsor of terror, and meets with the leadership that is funneling insurgents into Iraq to kill Americans; or, publicly compares our military men and women to Nazis, Soviets in gulags, and Pol Pot; or refers to our Marines as “cold blooded killers” before an ongoing investigation is completed and charges filed, they have crossed the line and have taken their politics to the battlefield.
Balkinization 2007
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Civilized societies do not disappear people, they do not toss them down the memory hole, they do not stick them in gulags.
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But if we look objectively at historical facts, we can see that in the leadership of the gulags were a lot of Jews.
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But if we look objectively at historical facts, we can see that in the leadership of the gulags were a lot of Jews.
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Just so, I know people who are trapped in fealty to an idea, defending egregious excesses out of loyalty to a beautiful concept in the name of which they are committed: the gulags were a temporary aberration, the debacle in Iraq a slight excess of zeal in defense of democracy, and so on.
Loyalty 2006
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Nobody said that genocide was imminent, but we should be reminded that one reason there were so many people willing to staff Auschwitz and the gulags was the Hitler Youth and Young Pioneers.
Say Anything 2008
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Inverted totalitarianism wields total power without resorting to cruder forms of control such as gulags, concentration camps or mass terror.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Adbusters Chris Hedges 2010
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His take on the "inverted" totalitarianism (under which he sees us) is somewhat interesting, but I take issue with this statement: "Inverted totalitarianism wields total power without resorting to cruder forms of control such as gulags, concentration camps or mass terror."
Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends Nihilo Zero 2010
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