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Comment by selimthegrim

2 years ago

GULAG is an acronym for a state organ, it can’t be pluralized.

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gruppe_sechs  2 years ago

Maybe in the original Russian, but the English word "gulag" can refer to an individual camp and not just the organisation that ran them: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gulag

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