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> The conditions for Western (read American & British) POWs were
> actually quite good compared to those of Russian POWs who were
> rather routinely sent to forced labor or concentration camps if not
> simply shot on the spot.

I've read that this difference was due to the simple fact - Geneva Conventions required the country of POWs citizenship to pay the other side (i.e. those who captured them) for their keeping expenses (food etc.). US and Great Britain did this. Stalin declared that every Soviet soldier was fighting until the last drop of his blood, so those who got themselves captured by enemy were declared the traitors (and the fact of their very existence was declined), and Soviet government refused to pay for their keeping.




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