[ noun ] a Russian prison camp for political prisoners <noun.artifact>
But Ne Win is widely believed to be keeping a hand in the organization's policies of gulag government.
This isn't the gulag, but a federal prison.
Another offering, "Our Armored Train," tells the story of a retired gulag official forced to confront his past actions.
"We think it's difficult to find people in the gulag," he said, referring to the Soviet prison camp network.
Mr. Li is one of thousands hauled off to the Chinese gulag since the June 4 massacre of democratic protesters in Beijing.
The internment camps would have marked a major change for Honecker, who imprisoned hundreds of activists during his regime but never rounded up opponents en masse and shipped them to a gulag.
"It was like a gulag," said 58-year-old Robert Vinton of Santa Fe., N.M., who was held south of Baghdad at an oil refinery.