Doug Kanter wrote:

Tangential to this (sort of): A large number of Russians fled Stalin's
terror during WWII. If I recall from my reading, the largest number of them
ended up in Northern Italy, somehow under the auspices of the U.S. and the
British. At the end of the war, we sent them back. I don't recall the
reason, but it was one of those things that makes you say "WTF????" Some
sort of handy political settlement with our "ally", Josef Stalin.

No saints anywhere.

Sweden also ended up with quite a few. Their version of "neutrality"
was not much different than Switzerland's. The Swedes got rich off the
war The Russian POWs and DPs that were in Sweden all ended up in
Siberia. Stalin felt that anyone exposed to outside influences was not
going to be content with his version of the USSR.
LZ