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Originally Posted by crich70
Touche. I may have misunderstood your post. Still I wager the term may be older than communist Russia, which is what springs to my mind at 1st when I hear the word gulag.
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"Gulag" is apparently quite new - it's an acronym. OED has its first reference as 1946. Dictionary.com says 1970-75, it has as its third definition: "any prison or detention camp, especially for political prisoners." - which means that America still has one (may be I should have kept that for the PR subforum).