Originally posted by Toad
Staga, that is just so mean.
Stalin did not kill any returning POWs. They were welcomed home with feasts, given huge houses to call their own in lovely residential areas. Each and every one of them.
That's how it really happened. Ask Boroda, he'll tell you.
Toad, you are almost right. Statistics on returned POWs is availible now. Less then 3% of privates and sergeants who came back after being POWs during WWII were sentenced, mostly for confirmed cooperation with enemy. Sorry, I am not ready to provide exact percentage for ex-POWs, lost many stuff after HDD crash
BTW, only after WWII the death penalty was restored in USSR, only for several years.
It's amazing how Western propaganda fairy-tales contradict with what really happened