One day in captivity - ten years in prison
Soviet General Ivan Andreevich Laskin, like thousands of others, fell into German captivity in 1941, but managed to escape the same day. However, because he concealed this fact from the SMERSH counter-intelligence authorities, he was arrested several years later and imprisoned for an incredible almost nine years in pre-trial detention. Thanks to his indomitability, however, he eventually won full rehabilitation and a return to the army. Ironically, Field Marshal Paulus, who personally surrendered to him in the siege of Stalingrad, was imprisoned for almost the same length of time as General Laskin.