And it must be remembered that the USSR allowed the Germany military free access to Russian air space and air bases from 1922–33 in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles, admittedly to which Russia was not invited, small wonder since it must also be remembered that Allied troops occupied some parts of Russia in support of the White Russians right up to late 1919.

In other words, the USSR and the Nazi governments were allies. Hell, they even divided up Poland in 1939, and it was under Stalin’s orders that the Katyn Forest massacre, 22,000 Polish soldiers were killed, took place.

And that’s not even getting into the USSR’s despicable betrayal of the Polish underground during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944.

Nope, I go with Tom on this one. If you surrendered to the Germans during battle even if through no fault of your own, you were a Nazi sympathizer and unworthy of any appellate other than cannon fodder or human mine sweepers — if you survived your interrogation by the NKVD.