The survivors may have feared facing the same fate as most Soviet collaborators: forced repatriation, under the terms of the Yalta Conference, often followed by incarceration and banishment and, for officers, execution.
幸存者可能已经害怕面对如同大多数苏联通敌者的同样命运：根据《雅尔塔协定》强制遣返本国，经常接下来是监禁和流放以及——对官员而言——处决。