The tremendous shock of disillusion which the Red Army suffered on its conquering trip to Europe could be cured only by concentration camps and forced exile for a large part of the occupation troops;
Fed the lie that capitalism and democratic forms of government brought only poverty and misery to other countries, many of the soldiers in the Red Army were shocked to find evidence of financial prosperity as they fought back the Nazis across Europe. Stalin's government imprisoned millions of its own soldiers after World War II ended.
