Meanings of gulag system in English

She says the prison in Russia is a copy of the Soviet gulag system, with better conditions.

The US now has more people in its penal system than the Soviet Union did at the height of the gulag system.

The museum's director, Mikhail Lopatkin, says the island is more closely associated with the gulag system in the minds of foreigners than among Russians.

Although, the Gulag system was essentially the Soviet Union itself.

In the Soviet Union, the Gulag system put in place by Stalin gradually fell apart after his death.