GULag

Глaвное управлeние лагерeй, Glavnoye upravleniye lagerey, “chief administration of the camps”.

Name, relation to Nazi KZs

• lingüística, “How do you say dash in Russian?”

• “After liberation of Auschwitz death camp Stalin’s feared NKVD used camp to hold Polish prisoners”

• Kyle W. Orton, “In August 1945, the #Soviets re-opened the #Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald (NKVD Special Camp Number Two) and Sachsenhausen (#7). The mortality rate at Buchenwald was higher under the Soviets, albeit the absolute numbers were smaller, as was the time-period it operated.”