AFIK it was very different from unit to unit. Some were disciplined and didn't harm civilians, others were not. That a lot of rapes happened is indisputable though.
Not that it makes it any better but I'm sure the Nazis were even worse as they advanced through eastern Europe. We just never hear about all the personal stories from there. The story of the eastern front in western media is almost exclusively told from the perspective of German soldiers, we rarely hear the civilians' stories or the Soviet soldiers'.
AFIK it was very different from unit to unit. Some were disciplined and didn't harm civilians, others were not. That a lot of rapes happened is indisputable though.
Not that it makes it any better but I'm sure the Nazis were even worse as they advanced through eastern Europe. We just never hear about all the personal stories from there. The story of the eastern front in western media is almost exclusively told from the perspective of German soldiers, we rarely hear the civilians' stories or the Soviet soldiers'.
weird how the script-flip of telling stories from the perspective of the invading soldiers only ever gets done for nazi germany and ur-nazi amerikkka
:soviet-hmm: