The main body of the division surrendered near Padua in May 1945 to the Western Allies and was dispatched to Taranto . In accordance with the agreements signed by the British and Americans at the Yalta Conference , the soldiers were repatriated to the Soviet Union . According to Nikolai Tolstoy , they received a twenty-year sentence of slave labor
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
162nd Turkoman Division