> if they had surrendered  of the 4,590,000 soviet soldiers, only 1,800,000 returned from captivity alive. more than half were killed, only 39% survived. of the 3,486,206 germans in soviet captivity, 2,967,686 returned, 85% survived. so for some reason the soviet gulag, for germans hated in the ussr was many times better than captivity for soviet soldiers. don't you think the soviet soldiers who voluntarily surrendered were not treated very well?
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