For anyone wondering Stalin is the circled person.
To the extent that we can access the Red Army’s views, it is through memoirs and letters. Vasily Gromadsky, an officer of the 60th Army, offered this description:
I realized that they were prisoners and not workers so I called out, ‘You are free, come out!’ […] They began rushing towards us, in a big crowd. They were weeping, embracing us, and kissing us. I felt a grievance on behalf of mankind that these fascists had made such a mockery of us. It roused me and all the soldiers to go and quickly destroy them and send them to hell.⁴¹
Georgii Elisavetskii, another of the first Soviet soldiers to enter the camp, admitted in 1980 that 'My blood runs cold when I mention Auschwitz even now. He described the liberation in dramatic detail:
When I entered the barrack, I saw living skeletons lying on the three tiered bunks. As in fog, I hear my soldiers saying: ‘You are free, comrades!’ I sense that they do not understand [us] and begin speaking to them in Russian, Polish, German, Ukrainian dialects; unbuttoning my leather jacket, I show them my medals […] Then I use Yiddish. Their reaction is unpredictable. They think that I am provoking them. They begin to hide. And only when I said to them: ‘Do not be afraid, I am a colonel of Soviet Army and a Jew. We have come to liberate you’ […] Finally, as if the barrier collapsed […] they rushed towards us shouting, fell on their knees, kissed the flaps of our overcoats, and threw their arms around our legs. And we could not move, stood motionless while unexpected tears ran down our cheeks.⁴²
(Source.)
I can remember seeing photos from the liberations of death camps, never got to hear about the soviets doing it of course...but regardless of who, those photos or very old video reels were more than enough for me, from a pretty early age I felt anyone who would have any part at all in anything like that should be stopped at once, their mechanisms put to an immediate end and their views destroyed. I can't understand how people who literally saw it with their own eyes could be anything but absolutely radicalized against fascism in even it's smallest signs. Instead we got McCarthyism. They had to tell people Stalin was a Hitler or they'd notice how Hitler their own country is.
Some turbolib once told me with a straight face that when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, it was socialist infighting. The same guy also claimed that the Roman empire was socialist because they had the dole.
If you study history through the lens of hitler's rhetoric I can see how a person could arrive at that conclusion. All his shit about Marx "stealing socialism" from him certainly paints a picture for libs who are too lazy and/or brainwashed to even attempt to understand what communism/socialism even means.
