| They are the stuff of inquisitions, imperialisms, gulags, and concentration camps. |
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| He saw women who had been raped in gulags, and children who had been tortured there. |
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| It was to Kazakhstan that Joseph Stalin exiled thousands of prisoners to some of his most brutal gulags. |
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| Trips can also be arranged to visit the decrepit gulags and labor camps used so mercilessly by Stalin during the Red Terror. |
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| It is only a matter of scale that differentiates this camp from the gulags and the concentration camps of the twentieth century. |
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| In the real world, however, there are no prematurely ended careers so far, no blacklists, no gulags for the dissidents. |
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| After signing the Helsinki accords, it immediately sent numerous people into the gulags. |
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| There were no doubters in the prisons and gulags, where dissidents spread the news, tapping to each other in code what the American President had dared to say. |
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| Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags. |
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| At a time when a career in politics seems about as appealing as a spell in the gulags, this book could be used as a recruiting pamphlet for Westminster. |
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| In the years that followed, over 2 million people were thrown into the Vietnamese gulags. |
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| It is over ten years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and yet your projects contain a strong hint of the gulags and mollifying moralism. |
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| During that period, more than 500 000 Georgians perished in the gulags, including several members of my own family. |
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| They should consider their own human rights records in places such as Hama, Tadmor, Maza and Evin prisons, or the gulags of North Korea. |
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| This search resulted in the confiscation of historical archives on the gulags. |
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| I have seen pale, ill-looking women come blinking into the sunshine from the depths of the wing, resembling prisoners in Siberian gulags. |
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| I am of the opinion that the K. G. B. was a notorious organization linked to the gulags. |
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| It's like one of Martin Parr's photographic nightmares, a neon shanty town of amusement arcades, chip shops and crumbling holiday camps that look like gulags. |
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| The purges, gulags, mass population transfers, political famines, monumental infrastructure projects built by slave labour still have few parallels in modern history. |
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| As a consequence, it is the guarantor of human dignity and freedom, especially in the gas chambers and gulags which are the total negation of both. |
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| Wasn't this the century that included millions of conscripts hunkered down in trenches, and millions more innocent civilians herded into gulags and concentration camps? |
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| Deterrence works badly against a dictator who blithely imposes famine and gulags on his people during peacetime. |
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| And when you talk about the gulags and the concentration camps in Pol Pot's regime, millions of people, innocent people, were killed by those regimes. |
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| I think many of them, either their parents or grandparents were killed, or arrested and died in prisons, or gulags. |
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| As for the great ideological, universalistic momentum of a nineteenth century attempting to free itself from its tight iron collar, it led, miserably, to the Siberian gulags. |
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| Volga Germans living in the Soviet Union were interned in gulags or forcibly relocated during the Second World War. |
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| The ruling elite is scandalously indifferent to the suffering of ordinary North Koreans generations at a time pass through the country's miserable gulags but it is punctiliously conscious of its own dignity. |
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| Under Soviet dictators, Russians going to Siberia were often headed for the gulags, or forced-labor camps. |
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| There are the zeks, the survivors of the gulags, some honest about their experiences, others still deluded or traumatised decades later. |
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| Whoever responsible will now be en route, no return ticket, to the gulags. |
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| He spent the next eight years as one of the countless men enduring the gulags. |
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| Perhaps one in 20 North Koreans passed through Mr Kim's gulags. |
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| His father died in the gulags, broken and starved to a shadow. |
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| Why have you not insisted on establishing free access for the Red Cross to those people who are rotting in prisons or holding centres, the gulags of today? |
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| The idea of human rights is one of the most exalted ideas which mankind has ever had and has its roots in the concentration camps and gulags of the last century. |
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| France will demand to know how it is that at least four of them have reportedly died as a result of the unbelievably cruel conditions in these Eritrean gulags. |
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| The research also found widespread ignorance when students were asked what were the Gulags in the Soviet Union. |
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| Its responsibilities included political surveillance, internal security, supervision of political trials, administration of Gulags and other prison camps, and border security. |
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| It was under Lenin's less-than-benevolent guidance that the secret police which eventually became the KGB was set up, as was the system of Gulags. |
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| The Soviet Union had about 14 million people working in Gulags during its existence. |
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