• Firebreather2P [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    This was apparently fake, just like every other war crime allegation against the USSR

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Wow you're telling me they didn't just sit around watching some nazi play the piano for 22 hours straight as if they had nothing better to do?

      • Firebreather2P [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        It’s about as bullshit as any claimed Soviet war crimes. In fact, the Soviets should have treated Germany harsher than they actually did in real life.

    • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Didn't Stalin have to put out an order early on telling at least a certain brigade to stop raping people? Or was that made up too?

        • AllCatsAreBeautiful [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          The book The Russians in Germany: a history of the Soviet Zone of occupation, 1945-1949" by Norman Naimark has a good deal of evidence in the chapter "Soviet Soldiers, German Women, and the Problem of Rape." There's no mention of Stalin's order though, and it mostly condemns smaller units. However, it does quote Stalin's response to accusations of mass rape in Silesia as being "In every family there is a black sheep," a Russian proverb. That's on page 71.