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The USSR also 'paperclipped' some Nazis for their scientific knowledge, do you know what they didn't do, that the US did? give them lives of luxury and:
Put a high ranking Nazi slaver in charge of a government agency(Wernher von Braun & NASA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Slave_labor
Use a Nazi High Command General as their main source for the history of the eastern front(Franz Halder & the US Army Historical Division, the origin of the 'Clean Wehrmacht' and 'Soviet Human Wave attacks' myths)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Halder#Post-war
Install a Nazi High Command General as Chairman of the military alliance they're the dominant power in(Adolf Heusinger & NATO)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger
For a few examples