&gt; Remember how part of Stalin&#x27;s price for peace with Japan was 300,000 Japanese slaves, none of whom ever returned to Japan after the war.<p>Most of those Japanese POWs who survived the winter of 1945 &#x2F; 46 had been repatriated by 1956, with mediation by the Red Cross.<p>Furthermore:<p><i>In 2005, the Russian government provided the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare microfilms of personal information of 40,940 Japanese POWs who had died during their detention.</i><p>Still horrific but less than 10% of the total number.<p>There is a fascinating history of those who returned to Japan but couldn&#x27;t fit-in again due to Soviet indoctrination.