Soviet POWs   The issue of collaboration important aspect regarding Soviet POWs that this article may want to consider According to Russian sources published since the fall of communism data on Soviet POW collaboration  million Soviet POW were freeded from German captivity  were sentenced by the NKVD for collaboration  refused to return to the USSR and remained in the west fearing punishment in the USSR In addition Russian sources estimate  Soviet citizen dead in the German Armed forces These folks were the Ukrainian guards we read about in the histories of the death camps