noun. ['gˈjuːlæg, ˈguːˌlɑːg'] a Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
Pronounce gulag as ˈguˌlɑg.
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1. Noun, singular or mass The NKVD is the organization that carried out Stalin's Great Terror of the 1930s, which saw an estimated 1 million people killed and 20 million more sent to prison camps in the gulag.
