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"Camp" is a more accurate translation, which gives the title a bit of a different connotation...

• watwut 3y ago
  In Russian, Czech or Slovak, I have never ever seen or heard it being used in the context of an innocent camp. It just means bad kind of prison and sometimes military barracks - when you want to imply you don't like those military barracks. I do not know how in German.
  • MoSattler 3y ago
    you can see it in the German word for concentration camp: KonzentrationsLAGER.
  • sologoub 3y ago
    Summer camp? https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Летний_лагерь https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Летний_лагерь When лагерь is used by itself, it depends on context - could be a prison/labor camp, kids summer camp, a historical military reference to an army camping on a campaign, or even a refugee camp or a tourist camp. Not that different from English “camp” really. Russian also borrowed lager bier in “лагер” (without the softening “ь”), whereas Czech and Slovak have native words for it (ležák/ležiak) with a similar (if not greater) complexity in styles to Germany.