• 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)

  • @Anatolianin@lemmygrad.ml
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    122 years ago

    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.

  • JucheBot1988
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    22 years ago

    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.

  • Dialectical Drip
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    -42 years ago

    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.