In the Battle of Nomonhan, the soldiers recruited by the Japanese from North Korea were captured by the Soviet Union and incorporated into the Soviet Red Army to station on the Western Front. During the Great Patriotic War, these Koreans were captured by the Germans and organized into The Oriental Battalion was stationed on the coast of France and participated in the resistance against the Allied forces during the Normandy invasion.
. Due to Stalin’s policies of great power chauvinism and national oppression, some of the Tatars in the Soviet Union defected to Germany and acted as puppet troops.
There are Koreans, Eastern Europeans, and Central Asians, but no Chinese.