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And why don't we have loyal East German forces with a version of the Stassi running around too.
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The Felix Dzezhinsky Guard Regiment was a division-sized Stasi military formation that was the DDR garrison of East Berlin (with a regime support/coup suppression mission as well as staring back at the NATO West Berlin garrisons). Wikipedia has a write up on them that mentions they were unpopular to the point that personnel were not allowed to go out in uniform after duty hours after some personnel were attacked by civilians. Apparently they were basically what you might call a light mechanized unit, with a lot of BTRs and some artillery but no tanks to speak of, and some SOF capability.
Anyway, I could see those guys throwing in with the Soviet troops in the area and withdrawing east as the Warsaw Pact was pushed out of Germany. They could probably end up as a Soviet backed "free German" force like their WW2 analogs, reformed into something like a standard Pact Motorized Rifle Division later in the war before things go nuclear. This would be a place for loyal Communist Ostis to rally to, and perhaps with additional Penal Battalions where any German POWs who prefer to switch sides rather than face a Siberian prisoner of war camp could end up.