Fighting against the Germans unfortunately wasn’t much protection against the insanity of the Soviet regime. This guy is a good example: Skalski was a Polish a

Fighting against the Germans unfortunately wasn’t much protection against the insanity of the Soviet regime. This guy is a good example: Skalski was a Polish aviator and fighter ace who served with the Polish Air Force and British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Skalski was the top Polish fighter ace of the war and chronologically the first Allied fighter ace of the war. He returned to Poland after the war but was imprisoned by the communist authorities under the pretext that he was a spy for Great Britain. While in arrest he was tortured and then, in a show trial, sentenced to death on 7 April 1950. Skalski refused to ask for clemency but after his mother's intervention with the president of communist Poland, Boleslaw Bierut, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He remained in prison until 1956 when a court overturned the previous verdict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Skalski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Skalski