The Cossack officers , more politically aware than the enlisted men , expected that repatriation to the USSR would be their ultimate fate . They believed that the British would have sympathised with their anti-Communism , but were unaware that their fates had been decided at the Yalta Conference . Upon discovering that they would be repatriated , many escaped , some probably aided by their Allied captors ; some passively resisted , and others committed suicide
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Repatriation of Cossacks after World War II