Gulag
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Gulag
A term for the system of penal and labor camps in the Soviet Union, which served especially under Stalin to oppress millions of people.
Der Schriftsteller Alexander Solschenizyn beschrieb in seinem Werk „Der Archipel Gulag“ das Lagersystem.
The writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn described the camp system in his work 'The Gulag Archipelago'.
Gulag
A single camp within this Soviet forced-labor system.
Sein Großvater wurde in einen Gulag in Sibirien verschleppt und kehrte nie zurück.
His grandfather was deported to a Gulag in Siberia and never returned.
'Gulag' is an acronym from Russian (ГУЛаг). It stands for 'Main Administration of Camps' and originally referred to the authority responsible for the Soviet penal and labor camps.
Das Wort Gulag wurde zum Symbol für das gesamte sowjetische Repressionssystem.
The word Gulag became a symbol of the entire Soviet system of repression.
The word is inseparably linked to the history of the Soviet Union, especially the period of Stalinism. It has a very strongly negative meaning and describes a system of oppression and forced labor.
Die Aufarbeitung der Verbrechen im Gulag begann erst Jahrzehnte später.
The process of coming to terms with the crimes in the Gulag began only decades later.
When people speak of 'der Gulag' (the Gulag, with the definite article), they usually mean the entire camp system. When people speak of 'einem Gulag' (a Gulag, with the indefinite article), they mean a single camp.
Millionen Menschen waren Opfer des Gulag.
Millions of people were victims of the Gulag.
In connection with a single camp, dramatic verbs are often used, such as 'in einen Gulag verschleppt werden' (to be abducted/deported to a Gulag), 'deportiert werden' (to be deported), or 'in einem Gulag ums Leben kommen' (to die in a Gulag).
Viele politische Gefangene wurden ohne Prozess in einen Gulag verschleppt.
Many political prisoners were deported to a Gulag without a trial.
