Interesting article about the ethnic POWs captured in Normandy. They will probably be sent to the USA, and repatriated across the Pacific. They will have an interesting story to tell.
Unfortunately for them, since they are being repatriated to Stalin’s USSR, they will be telling their stories to NKVD interrogators, and will most likely never be heard from again.
"Foyle's War" had an episode about Russian prisoners in England committing suicide rather than be sent back to Russia.
While we're looking at the onrushing Red Army and thinking that's good, it's edifying to remember what came after.
When I was in Mongolia I looked for WWII history there. I was told many went to war but never came back, so there were no stories to tell...................
You made me look at for at some Mongolian military history. They were very involved in 1939 with attacking Japan and then many were involved later in defencing Moscow? So some (few?) were captured by the Germans and then served the Germans in the west?
http://www.historynet.com/mongolia-1939-stalins-shrewd-opening-act.htm
Virtually all of the Kalmyks who began coming to New Jersey in 1951 had spent the years after World War II in displaced persons camps in Germany. They ended up there because, as the Nazis began their long retreat after the Battle of Stalingrad, some Kalmyks followed, staying just ahead of the Soviet Army.
http://mongolamerican.wordpress.com/tag/world-war-ii/