HoI 4 - Colonial division manpower is maintained on annexation

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Description of issue
Colonial division manpower is maintained on annexation

Game Version
1.7.1

Enabled DLC
Together for Victory

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No

Description
Colonial divisions maintain their subject manpower when annexing the subject. This allows small countries to expand their manpower by orders of magnitudes compared to any other option.

Steps to Reproduce
- puppet China through any means
- deploy tens of millions of colonial manpower
- annex China, e.g. by lowering their autonomy

Expected:
- the Chinese manpower returns to China before the annexation resolves

Actual
- the divisions keep their manpower and it all now belongs to the overlord

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[Orlunu]

Is that a bug, though? I wouldn't expect more closely integrating a colony to have to entail disbanding most of the military units recruited from their population.