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What you are is roughly 97% Polish, what makes you hit the markers for "Jew" is the mixture of semitic and near eastern DNA which is actually insignificant quantity wise. In other words calling yourself 97% Ashkenazi Jew is like calling yourself 97% Nigerian because of the tiny percentage of it you have, only it's worse because the test doesn't even quantify how much actual semitic or Ashkenazi DNA you have. Instead it sees you hit certain markers so it arbitrarily calls you a Jew even though most of that 97% is regular Polish DNA. If you took someone with no Jewish ancestors who had a little bit of Palestinian DNA and Turkish DNA but a majority of European DNA the test might actually think they are an Ashkenazi Jew because they hit the same genetic markers. That is how arbitrary it is, and why the word "Jew" has no scientific relevance. It is nothing more than a conflation of culture and race.
What is a gulag? It is a prison where forced labour happens. America has the largest prison population on earth, and forced labour happens in American prisons. In Soviet gulags, the majority of the people imprisoned were your standard criminals (murderers, rapists etc) and literal Nazis. So why then, do Americans point to the gulags as an atrocity when they have been known to put you in prison and subject you to forced labour just for smoking some pot.