Originally Posted by
pattern_is_full
Perhaps. But recall how Stalin treated many returning Great Patriotic War (WW2) POWs - as "traitors and collaborators" for having failed to fight to the death, and as "contaminated" by exposure to the West.
Whether Putin will do the same, each of us must guess for ourselves.
I recall reading stories (with no idea as to accuracy) of WWII Russian POWs attempting suicide to avoid be “repatriated” back to mother Russia.