The Prisoners-of-war Come Home
The Prisoners-of-war Come Home
This chapter focuses on an even more valuable type of informant: Germans forced to work in the Soviet Union itself. It explains that the war showed the Soviet leaders that their country was backward in military technology, particularly with regard to Germany and the USA. It adds that Stalin set the USSR the aim of catching up with the West in the most crucial military technologies. It narrates that the great flow of prisoners-of-war from the USSR supplied valuable sources of intelligence on the industry, military installations, growing military-industrial complexes, and topography of the USSR.
Keywords: prisoners-of-war, Soviet Union, USSR, military technologies, mass flight, intelligence sources, Germany, USA, Friedland
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