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jedrek

> Prisoners of war ended in Siberian gulags for centuries, while the GDR was constructed at home.

I think you mean decades?

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No, and there were literally billions of them. And also soviet leaders were eating babies. Alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimatvertriebene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_...

And also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin

Spoiler: He was not nice to his own people, nor to others.

To be fair, it wasn't just the German POWs who ended up imprisoned for decades; Russian POWs who managed to survive the German camps were shipped off to labor camps in the USSR.

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