[Flintlock]

Doesn’t this just confirm what we already know? At least as far as the facts of the case are concerned.
The really powerful stuff is knowing just how far “we” would go to cover up Uncle Joe’s crimes.

OPERATION KEELHAUL ring any bells for ya?

[Ax]

It does. This was Harry S. Truman’s darkest hour. Those poor Soviet POWs were traded into certain slavery or death for political expediency.

[robowombat]

The only rationale I have ever heard for the forced repatriation of Soviet and Polish nationals after WW2 is that the Soviets had overrun most of the German POW camps and had effective control of several hundred thousand US and UK former prisoners of war. The Soviets without putting anything on paper had made it clear that it was a quid pro quo if we and the British wanted our people back in much under a few years give or take a couple and minus a lot of former prisoners who would just become ‘unaccountable’ to speedily return all Soviet nationals (as the Soviets counted them meaning anyone who had ever lived in or around Russia at any time.) to the control of the Soviet Union. No allied worthy would ever breath a word about this (Churchill and Marshall included) but it seems the Soviets made their shakedown clear. Rather like Chicago gangsters shaking down businesses.