Terrifying History on Instagram: "In 1953, a significant wave of German prisoners of war (POWs) began returning from Soviet captivity, marking the end of a brutal chapter of post-WWII history. These men had been held for up to eight years in the notoriously harsh Gulag system, where estimates suggest nearly 1 million of the 3 million German POWs sent to the USSR perished from starvation, disease, and forced labor. The returns coincided with Stalin’s death and subsequent Soviet policy shifts, wit