Comments by "ChineseKiwi" (@ChineseKiwi) on "Why Germans Fled to South America After WW2 | Animated History" video.

@Arrows_Of_Doom In reality, many of them were coerced into it. Or in Operation Osoaviakhim, the Soviet operation which was in reality bigger than Operation Paperclip, they and their families were taken away at 3am by armed personnel. But the Soviets weren't silly, they paid those scientists very well and gave them freedoms and luxuries other Soviet citizens couldn't get to lessen the chance they would defect or leak information to the West.
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