What is "gulagged" ?

Yilaner

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Jan 27, 2011, 11:55:41 AM1/27/11

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Mr Hu Jintao said he would try to see that state companies
cut back on their illegal behavior in this regard – a vague
offer that is meaningless considering that he could end such
practices immediately. After all, he has the power to have
anyone defying his will shot or gulagged at his whim.

Can anyone help me out? Thanks!

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Cheryl

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Jan 27, 2011, 12:16:28 PM1/27/11

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It means 'sent to a concentration camp or prison'. The Soviet Union
(and, I think, it's predecessor) used to send prisoners, including
political prisoners, to prison camps in remote areas. The process and
sometimes the places are called 'gulag' in English after the acronym for
the Russian organization in charge of prisons.

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Cheryl

CDB

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Jan 27, 2011, 12:17:58 PM1/27/11

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Yilaner wrote:
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> Mr Hu Jintao said he would try to see that state companies
> cut back on their illegal behavior in this regard � a vague
> offer that is meaningless considering that he could end such
> practices immediately. After all, he has the power to have
> anyone defying his will shot or gulagged at his whim.
>
> Can anyone help me out? Thanks!
>>

"Sent to do hard labour in a prison camp", from the Russian "gulag",
originally an official acronym for the prison camp system.
>>
The Concise Oxford Dictionary at OneLook has:
>>
Gulag�
a system of labour camps maintained in the Soviet Union from 1930 to
1955 in which many people died�
>>
gulag
in Gulag�a camp in the Gulag system, or any political labour camp�
>>
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Horace LaBadie

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Jan 27, 2011, 12:18:26 PM1/27/11

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In article
<acf52de9-303c-4313...@a28g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
Yilaner <yil...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sent to a prison camp (or re-education camp), derived from the Soviet
forced labor camps administered by the Gulag, a Russian acronym for the
agency.

John Dunlop

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Jan 27, 2011, 12:20:37 PM1/27/11

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Yilaner:

> Mr Hu Jintao said he would try to see that state companies
> cut back on their illegal behavior in this regard – a vague
> offer that is meaningless considering that he could end such
> practices immediately. After all, he has the power to have
> anyone defying his will shot or gulagged at his whim.

From the OED's entry for "Gulag":

a. In the former Soviet Union, the name of a department of the Soviet
secret police (see NKVD n. at N n. Initialisms 1) responsible between
1934 and 1955 for the administration of corrective labour camps and
prisons.

b. These camps and prisons collectively, both under the N.K.V.D. and
subsequently; a prison camp, esp. one for political prisoners; hence
transf., any place or political system in which the oppression and
punishment of dissidents is institutionalized. Also in more general
fig. use.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's _One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich_
kept me warm on a cold day this winter.

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John

the Omrud

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Jan 27, 2011, 12:22:04 PM1/27/11

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A gulag is/was a Soviet prison labour camp.

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David