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\\\"the Red Army\\\'s attitude to repatriated [=POW=]s, who it viewed as traitors and cowards, was almost as bad. As the Red Army moved West and liberated [=POW=] camps, it reconscripted ex-prisoners back into the Red Army\\\" - Well, surrender was considered treasury, but not \\\'\\\'every\\\'\\\' surrender. And the numbers I saw (several times) state, that most (90+%) were considered innocent.

\\\"often into penal regiments\\\" - 3-4%. Often.

\\\"Also, Stalin had no intention of letting men return to Russia who could tell the true story of the military incompetence of 1941 and 1942 that had abandoned so many of them to capture and slavery.\\\" - And he also ate children.

\\\"Prisoners repatriated by Finland at the end of the Winter War in 1940 were liquidated for this reason.\\\" - That\\\'s harder, as I can find less information. Still, according to what I found, they weren\\\'t liqidated mostly. However, yes, then ones who wasn\\\'t found guilty, were send to working camps with 5 years sentence.

\\\"The figures of [=POW=]s repatriated to Germany and her allies after the war are also very small relative to the (small) number taken. Germans who survived up to ten years in Soviet captivity have told their stories of neglect and slavery in the Gulag. One statistic stands out: out of 260,000 [=POW=]s taken at Stalingrad alone, only 10,000 lived to see Germany again at the end of the war; and the last of the prisoners from Russia did not return until 1955.\\\" - Numbers I know: 2,7 million taken, 2,3 returned. Didn\\\'t looked for numbers in Stalingrad, but, regardless of real numbers, soldiers there were in bad shape already, so some may die because of already-received illnesses and injuries.

\\\"Ilya Ehrenburg\\\'s \\\"kill all the Germans and rape their women!\\\" propaganda\\\" - It was only \\\"kill the german\\\", and it was in 1942 - when it was really \\\"either kill german or he\\\'ll kill you and your family\\\" and soldiers should be given right motivation , as there already were occasions of one-sied mercy, when Soviets tried to make Germans reconsider - with preictale result. Also, later, when defeat was averted, he started campaign \\\"Only German with rifle is your enemy\\\".

Worst thing about history books - they are written by the people, and people can\\\'t be really objective. After all, for last century West worked hard to make Soviets look like bloodthirsty mosters.
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