The Germans just wanted land in the East, they didn't want any people to actually be there. After these brave men had fought against the commies the Germans would have liquidated them and their families. As far as the Germans were concerned those who could work would work till they died. Those that could not work were to be exterminated. Do you think the Soviets lost 27 million people by accident? It was an extermination on a very large scale, something ignored in the west because there is no interest in the suffering of a rival and the only voices we hear on the matter talk about 6 million dead. In the west it is believed that the Soviets (usually the Russians, which ignores all the other republics actually involved) won because the winters were cold and through shear numbers. They ignore two things, first that by the time the Germans had pushed the Soviets to the gates of Moscow most of the Soviet population were behind enemy lines, and they also forget how quickly and easily their own forces had been pushed out of Europe a year or two before. If numbers could be used so easily to defeat an enemy why did the Chinese do so badly against the Japanese?