I did not realize the scope of this until I read the Gulag Archipelago.
“Tenners”. Standard sentence, usually converted to a 20 year sentence before they were ready to be released (if they were still alive) on any pretext...or no pretext.
What a sad thing...to have gone through that viscous fighting with the Nazis, only to have your own country imprison you for being exposed to the American or British armies, or being captured by the Germans.
And the Germans treated their Soviet POWs just as bad or even worse than the Jews in their concentration camps.
What a terrible, sad, and pathetic thing.
One aspect of the war I have been meaning to read about is one rarely mentioned: Japanese POWs held in Russia.