If a very small number of individual Red Army soldiers commit atrocities, it’s a systemic issue. If a very small* number of Amerikan soldiers do the same, it’s just because of some bad individuals.
(* IIRC it was actually far more common than for Red Army soldiers)I have a feeling that if westerners knew about the battle at the 12th Moscow border outpost, they would still find a way to somehow attribute rape to them.
Hasn’t it come out, too, that a whole lot of rapes were committed by the Americans and got blamed on the Red Army as propaganda/a way to save face?
Even in Britain, which was allied with the US, American servicemen were disliked for being horny and rapey way beyond what is historically typical for soldiers.
Fair enough. But the suffering of other people doesn’t give Red Army a “moral right to a revenge”. Focusing only on raping during the Battle of Berlin as the sole war crime of WW2 is obviously a nazi thing but please do not try to “justify” it.
All rapists were shot as Stalin said