You must also remember that for much of Eastern Europe, Russians and their hordes were regarded as savages and barbarians, mongols, and that for good historical reasons going back thousands of years, while the Germans whatever their faults and crimes represented civilization and culture, which is why they were greeted as liberators in lands previously occupied by the Soviets, something we to this day fail to understand and acknowledge despite all the evidence of the savagery of Communism, 120 million murdered, starved.
Note that the ever wandering Gypies (or Romas in today’s parlance) tend to nowadays wander West and not East toward the enlightened and so beloved by so many Americans Mother Russia. Note also that Russian billionaires like to take residence in Western Europe. (I’m offering these bits of Russophobia in support of the anti-Soviet views of WWII.)
General Anders told Patton, “With the Nazis, we lose our lives, with the Russians, we lose our souls.”