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[[File:Olkhon Island gulag.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Remains of a Soviet gulag, Olkhon Island, Russia.]]

[[File:Olkhon Island gulag.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Remains of a Soviet gulag, Olkhon Island, Russia.]]

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 and exact any kind of labor from its subjects who failed to co-operate with, or simply were in any way threatening to, 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 [[Socialist]] 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 policies of the regime or its subjects.  More recently, this term refers to the continued imprisonment without a trial of [[Trump]] supporters who exercised their [[First Amendment]] rights on Jan. 6, 2021, at the [[United States Capitol]].

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 and exact any kind of labor from its subjects who 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 [[Socialist]] 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 policies of the regime or its subjects.  More recently, this term refers to the continued imprisonment without a trial of [[Trump]] supporters who exercised their [[First Amendment]] rights on Jan. 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>

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>