That's what Poland did during WWII, and repeatedly. Refugees in France and later UK (Army in the West, recreated after having been destroyed by the 1940 blitzkrieg in France and also in Norway, besides tens of thousands interned in Switzerland until the end of the war), and prisoners and deportees turned refugees in either Russia (the People's Army of mostly young and young-ish men, and often Soviet officers as most Polish POW ones have been shot back in 1940) or evacuated from Russia to the Middle East (the Anders Army of mostly old men, where the average age was over 40 and was accompanied by masses of women and children - and Wojtek the Battle Bear, and where the Jews were allowed to desert along the way so they could fight the Brits for Israeli independence, the famous right-wing terrorist and future prime minister Begin was among them).
The West and Anders armies later also toured the Allied POW camps and scooped any German prisoner from Poland who wanted to join them, and Anders even wanted the Ukrainian SS to join him wholesale but they were in the East until literally after the war (few days after German surrender), when he and the Vatican helped them to surrender/defect to the Allies and escape from the Russians. And this is in part why there are so many Ukrainians in Canada today, along with their monument triggering the libs.
That's what Poland did during WWII, and repeatedly. Refugees in France and later UK (Army in the West, recreated after having been destroyed by the 1940 blitzkrieg in France and also in Norway, besides tens of thousands interned in Switzerland until the end of the war), and prisoners and deportees turned refugees in either Russia (the People's Army of mostly young and young-ish men, and often Soviet officers as most Polish POW ones have been shot back in 1940) or evacuated from Russia to the Middle East (the Anders Army of mostly old men, where the average age was over 40 and was accompanied by masses of women and children - and Wojtek the Battle Bear, and where the Jews were allowed to desert along the way so they could fight the Brits for Israeli independence, the famous right-wing terrorist and future prime minister Begin was among them).
The West and Anders armies later also toured the Allied POW camps and scooped any German prisoner from Poland who wanted to join them, and Anders even wanted the Ukrainian SS to join him wholesale but they were in the East until literally after the war (few days after German surrender), when he and the Vatican helped them to surrender/defect to the Allies and escape from the Russians. And this is in part why there are so many Ukrainians in Canada today, along with their monument triggering the libs.