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The word 'gulag' refers to the Soviet network of forced labour camps. They extended from some northern parts of European Russia, across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Far East. The purposes were (1) to terroize opponents of the regime and (2) to get very cheap labour.

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