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Although the propaganda from the communist government shows an optimistic collective might of the working class (hammer and sickle), the reality is the symbol that the rest of the world has come to know…The Gulag The gulag was the acronym for the government agency in charge of the forced-labor camp-system… The word Gulag was not often used in Russian. The official term was, 'corrective labor camp' where petty criminals and those in opposition to the communist government were sent to be 're-educated' which really means taught a lesson about their dependence on the state (if they survived).

⁠— Armon Eaton