Wouldn't it be lovely if whatever replaces the group currently being investigated wasn't actively hostile to lesbians?
Oh, I think they're equal opportunities scum, and are actively hostile to many more groups than just lesbians.
And of course, this being the woke left, a disproportionate number of the victims of the Gulag were Jewish and therefore the woke Goldsmiths students can get their jollies from a bit of implicit anti-Semitism, too.
The narrative of both Nazi and Communist anti-Semitism was that Jews were lazy and unproductive and therefore needed to be worked, if necessary to death, to prove this "point". A common holocaust denial trope is to make out that the concentration camps were actually just places of work for those legitimately punished, and any deaths that might inadvertently have happened were caused by disease, itself caused by advancing Allied troops disrupting food supplies.
It's of a piece with that to claim something roughly similar for the gulags: legitimate work, for the lazy and feckless. Who were, by an amazing piece of happenstance, disproportionately Jewish.
But dressing it up as a legitimate penal policy rather than what it was, you can claim that the victims had it coming to them.
Disgraceful. But anti-Semtism is now pretty much mainstream on the left.