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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, 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.

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 and self-prioritized [[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.  The threat of the gulag terrorized the regime's subjects into participating in activities beneficial to the regime that were sure to give them more power with which to enslave them.

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.  The threat of the gulag terrorized the regime's subjects into participating in activities beneficial to the regime that were sure to give them more power with which to enslave them.