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11Gulag — The term “gulag” refers to the government agency that administered the system of penal labor camps in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The word is an acronym for “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies”… …
12Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union — Soviet Union …
13List of English words of Russian origin — Including English, contain words most likely borrowed from the Russian language. Not all of the words are truly fluent Russian or Slavic origin. Some of them co exist in other Slavic languages and it is difficult to decide whether they made… …
14Crime in the Soviet Union — Crime statistics in the Soviet Union were often published uncomprehensively by the government, because crime was considered to be an ideological embarrassment to the Soviet Union. According to Western experts, robberies, homicide and other… …
15Extermination through labour — Extermination through labourOften also translated as death through work , extermination through work , annihilation through labor or destruction through labor ] ( de. Vernichtung durch Arbeit) was a Nazi German World War II principle that… …
16Kolkhoz — A kolkhoz (audio ru|колхоз|ru kolkhoz.ogg, IPA ru|kɐlˈxos), plural kolkhozy , was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms (sovkhoz, plural sovkhozy ). The word is a contraction of коллективное… …
17Norillag — 2002 Norillag, Norilsk Corrective Labor Camp (Russian: Норильлаг, Норильстрой, Норильский ИТЛ) was a gulag labor camp set by Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia and headquartered there. It existed from June 25, 1935 to August 22, 19 …
18KGB — the intelligence and internal security agency of the former Soviet Union, organized in 1954 and responsible for enforcement of security regulations, protection of political leaders, the guarding of borders, and clandestine operations abroad. Also …
19GULAG — The term gulag is derived from Glavnoye upravleniye ispravitel’no trudovykh lagerei, or Chief Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps, a sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described the… …
20Magadan — Some old Greek Bible manuscripts have Magadan for one of the places in Palestine usually known as Magdala. Magadan (English) Магадан (Russian) …
