What the heck, underage conscripts were cheap then, and Stalin went on to kill another 20 million Russians.
They didn't conquer the east anymore than we conquered the west.
Plus the thousands of Russian soldiers Ike "repatriated" to stalin at the end of the war, to their deaths. Russian soldiers who fought for Mother Russia, but knew the evil stalin and did not want to go back. "Operation Keelhaul".
FMCDH(BITS)