Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

A word exists for a prison that “functions outside a judicial ... “a de facto extralegal policy of imprisonment in a foreign gulag for enemies of the regime.” At that point, a detainee ...

Many were shot, but a much greater number were sent to the labour camps, the notorious Gulag complex scattered ... the number of executions of political prisoners fell to almost zero.