Of course, going to a gulag is an effective way to silence a scientist.
It desolated the countryside, dehumanised cities and consigned hundreds of thousands of Russians to the gulag.
The North Korean gulag has persisted for twice as long as its Soviet counterpart did.
Both were in the Russian Far East, in areas once part of Stalin's old gulag.
It's no longer a component of Stalin's feared Gulag, but instead a prosperous producer of luxury rocks.
And as anyone not indoctrinated in a gulag knows, if you reduce competition, you similarly reduce quality.
Jhalani says he removed the links that may have offended Google, but the site remained in Google's gulag.
And he maintained a system of gulag-like prison camps, massive in scale and horrific in condition, to instill fear.
The "non-partisan" advocacy group has taken to calling actual gulag survivors and begging for their endorsement of Amnesty's statement.
Clues abounded, chiefly from defectors and former Gulag inmates who reached the West.
Ms Applebaum has some distinguished predecessors in writing the history of the Gulag system, notably Robert Conquest and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
The size and character of this Indochinese "gulag" are described as well as the treatment of POWs incarcerated in it.
Largely ignoring Kim's gulag, America's diplomatic establishment has focused mainly on bickering with North Korea over its weapons and nuclear ambitions.
The effects of North Korea's gulag extend beyond the lives of those unfortunate men, women and children who live and die there.
South Korea should announce to the world that it will welcome with open arms anyone who escapes from North Korea's nationwide gulag.
If Amnesty can turn the detention facility in Guantanamo into a gulag, imagine how they would judge a truly brutal prison system.
It doesn't hurt that his American wife is also a celebrity: the Polish translation of her book on Stalin's gulag has been a bestseller.
Stalin established a hideous system of slavery inside his empire--the Gulag Archipelago, a series of concentration camps of barbarism and death that defy comprehension.
Victims are held incommunicado, rendering the level of inhumanity even worse in the North Korean gulag than in that of the former Soviet Union.
Xinjiang is China's other vast subject province, home to a gulag of 250, 000 and in danger of having its culture wholly eliminated by Chinese migrants.
Or the more recent story of Shin Dong-hyuk a North Korean prisoner which escaped from the Gulag death camps of which only there have even done so.
Unless the Left finds its edge, and fast, the next several months are going to feel like a long walk to the Gulag for the Obama faithful.
It turns out that for scientists the thought of getting fabulously rich, or not being sent to the Gulag with their families, provides about the same incentive.
Or the 50-something Novosibirsk professor whose family had been shipped to a Gulag-built town, after WWII, who sadly confessed that, though he tried, he could not stomach heavy metal.
The gulag is filled with the third kind, people perceived to be Christian, or from the wrong background, or thought to have insulted the honour of the Kim dynasty.
In an editorial published in The Washington Post on June 18th, Soviet gulag veteran Pavel Litvinov recounted how a senior Amnesty staffer called him asking for his public support.
But in the truly totalitarian state in which she grew up, such articles would not have appeared at all, and circulating even blurred carbon copies would have risked the gulag.
But fellow Conservative Paul Maynard disagreed, telling MPs that the country should not be turned into "some kind of gulag" with "anyone who is found guilty" being sent to prison.
This is Myanmar's Gulag: NLD party members disappear and their families are not told where they are for days or weeks, and then they have only very limited access to them.
There is little sign that the gulag is any less brutal: a report by Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a human-rights group, pieced together what is known from defectors' accounts and satellite imagery.
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