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The '''Gulag''' is the extensive network of prison camps used in the Soviet Union and by extension other socialist societies . It was used to imprison people and exact any kind of labor from its subjects who opposed failed to co-operate with, or simply were in any way threatening to, ongoing regime objectives, particularly the use of words, actions or being in a position to have a basis of knowledge that discredited the various ways a force genocidal in extent or a totalizing falsification was required to command assent in the face of the regime's incompetence and abuse in applying its self-defined and self-prioritized [[MarxismSocialist]] principles to carry out those objectives. In the indictment procedure, whatever threats to regime prestige the indicted posed were disguised and re-fashioned into imputations of participation in usually-direct intentional attacks on some aspect of the professed prerogatives or failed policies of the regime or its subjects. The threat of the gulag terrorized the regime's subjects into participating in activities beneficial to live up the regime that were sure to give them more power with which to enslave them. More recently, this term refers to the continued imprisonment without a trial of [[SocialistTrump]] principlessupporters who exercised their [[First Amendment]] rights on Jan. It 6, 2021, at the [[United States Capitol]]. Gulag is an acronym is derived from Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps, ''Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii'' (Russian: ''Главное управление лагерей и мест заключения''),<ref>A ''lag'' or ''lage'' in Russian is the same word in German for "camp", as in ''konzentrationslager'' or [[concentration camp]]. The word, common to both languages, may have derived from Czarist times and the operation of punitive logging camps for criminal offenders and political dissidents. Vladimir Lenin (born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) for example, spent time in a notorious logging camp on the River Lena in Siberia, from which he adopted the name "Lenin" to identify as a proud veteran of the camps.</ref> spelled GuLag, Corrective labor is used for [[politically incorrect]] thought, word, or action. The term became well known by its use in the title of the compilation of personal historical accounts by [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] in ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]''.<ref>The camps are depicted as a scattered collection of islands.</ref>

===Chinese Laogai===

The modern [[Chinese Communist Party]] system of gulags are called the ''Laogai'', the Russian equivalent of ''Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei''. Indeed, Solzhenitsyn postulated the origianl gulag system of corrective labor may have origninated originated in China. The book ''Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China'', published in 2009, stated that as many as 3 to 5 million people were imprisoned in laogai or gulag camps.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Laogai-The-Machinery-Repression-China/dp/1884167772 Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China], 2009-10-01</ref>

{{quotebox-float|"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organization."<ref>[https://www.npr.org/2019/12/23/790832681/6-year-old-finds-message-alleging-chinese-prison-labor-in-box-of-christmas-cards6-Year-Old Finds Message Alleging Chinese Prison Labor In Box Of Christmas Cards], ''NPR'', Dec 23, 2019</ref>}}