  == 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. 2 million Soviet POW were freeded from German captivity; 284,000 were sentenced by the NKVD for collaboration, 180,000 refused to return to the USSR and remained in the west fearing punishment in the USSR. In addition Russian sources estimate 215,000 Soviet citizen dead in the German Armed forces. These folks were the Ukrainian guards we read about in the histories of the death camps.  