Even if the Soviets were raping the way the crackers claim they were, it’d really be no different from how sexually predatory Amerikan warfighters have been for the past 50 years. We had to have four sexual assault briefings a year on the joint base I was at, during my infinitely-regretted time in service. Those briefings did fuck all, did nothing about the dozens to hundreds of rapes perpetrated by servicemembers from that base per year.
Did nothing about how servicemen would occasionally just. Disappear from their duty locations, with an NCO (or sometimes the OIC) talking about IG investigations and courtmartials. Did nothing about the women who’d disappear wordlessly, telling no one where they were going, simply escaping.
IIRC the “Soviets raping women” atrocity propaganda was just Göbbels looking at how the Nazis were behaving and projecting it onto the Soviets.
In reality the Nazis raped (and killed of course) their way nearly to Moscow and then all the way back to Berlin. Compare this to any Soviet rumored to have raped anyone being investigated, and those who were found guilty were dealt with in the way you deal with criminals on the battlefield.
It’s also incredibly interesting, that it’s the Soviets who get the reputation as “rapists,” for coming in to occupy Germany- a nation which had wrought such horrors and blatantly sought to exterminate their peoples. Not the Americans, in their sordid history as the “most warlike nation in the world” as their own former POTUS Jimmy Carter describes it, when they have militarily occupied (and for infinitely worse, wholly unjustifiable reasons) countless nations before and since. Not the British, French, Dutch, Belgians, and other nations who after WW2, went on to rape their way through the world in literally dozens of various colonial conflicts, from Indonesia to Vietnam, to Kenya and Algeria, and so on… not the settler-colonial states like Canada and Australia which continued on with blatant policies of indigenous child theft (with plenty of documented rape) and whose policies effectively continue when one looks at the statistics of systemic discrimination and abuse to this day.
Even if the Soviets were raping the way the crackers claim they were, it’d really be no different from how sexually predatory Amerikan warfighters have been for the past 50 years. We had to have four sexual assault briefings a year on the joint base I was at, during my infinitely-regretted time in service. Those briefings did fuck all, did nothing about the dozens to hundreds of rapes perpetrated by servicemembers from that base per year.
Did nothing about how servicemen would occasionally just. Disappear from their duty locations, with an NCO (or sometimes the OIC) talking about IG investigations and courtmartials. Did nothing about the women who’d disappear wordlessly, telling no one where they were going, simply escaping.
tl;dr this reeks of settler projection.
IIRC the “Soviets raping women” atrocity propaganda was just Göbbels looking at how the Nazis were behaving and projecting it onto the Soviets.
In reality the Nazis raped (and killed of course) their way nearly to Moscow and then all the way back to Berlin. Compare this to any Soviet rumored to have raped anyone being investigated, and those who were found guilty were dealt with in the way you deal with criminals on the battlefield.
It’s also incredibly interesting, that it’s the Soviets who get the reputation as “rapists,” for coming in to occupy Germany- a nation which had wrought such horrors and blatantly sought to exterminate their peoples. Not the Americans, in their sordid history as the “most warlike nation in the world” as their own former POTUS Jimmy Carter describes it, when they have militarily occupied (and for infinitely worse, wholly unjustifiable reasons) countless nations before and since. Not the British, French, Dutch, Belgians, and other nations who after WW2, went on to rape their way through the world in literally dozens of various colonial conflicts, from Indonesia to Vietnam, to Kenya and Algeria, and so on… not the settler-colonial states like Canada and Australia which continued on with blatant policies of indigenous child theft (with plenty of documented rape) and whose policies effectively continue when one looks at the statistics of systemic discrimination and abuse to this day.