In 1943 Ivan Maisky , the Soviet ambassador to the UK , was ordered by the Soviet government to form a task force on the issue of post-war reparations from Germany . Maisky 's report of August 1944 proposed the employment of German civilian labor in the USSR as part of war reparations . At the Yalta Conference the Soviet Union made it clear to the Western Allies that they intended to employ German civilian labor as part of war reparations , at this time the U.S. and UK did not raise any objections to the Soviet use of German civilian labor
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union