Posted on 05/09/2006 4:55:01 AM PDT by Lukasz
"Red Army soldiers don't believe in 'individual liaisons' with German women," wrote the playwright Zakhar Agranenko in his diary when serving as an officer of marine infantry in East Prussia. "Nine, ten, twelve men at a time - they rape them on a collective basis."
The Soviet armies advancing into East Prussia in January 1945, in huge, long columns, were an extraordinary mixture of modern and medieval: tank troops in padded black helmets, Cossack cavalrymen on shaggy mounts with loot strapped to the saddle, lend-lease Studebakers and Dodges towing light field guns, and then a second echelon in horse-drawn carts. The variety of character among the soldiers was almost as great as that of their military equipment.
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Yeah, it's almost as bad as what the German troops did in Russia.
Don't want to reap the whirlwind? Then don't sow the wind in the first place.
I've read his book "Fall of Berlin 1945". Excellent read.
And yet the Japanese army from the same war probably had them beat for atrocities and murder-by-mass-rape.
I agree with you. Not pleasant to read about, but payback is always a bitch. And the Germans really had it coming.
Ditto.
'They raped every German female from eight to 80'
Thats ironic because the Nazis killed every Russian female from 8 to 80.
Some 20 years ago, I read a newly published diary by a woman living in Berlin at the end of WWII as the Russians approached and entered the center....hair-raising, awful stuff.
This is a "Patton was right" BTTT.
And the ones they didn't were shipped back to the Reich for use as slave labor.
They don't.
About 20 years ago, the Japanese Ministry of Education put out textbooks saying that Japan "advanced" into China (vs. "invaded").
Japan refuses to "get it."
Soviet casualties in taking Berlin were more than all of those taken by the western allies in the entire 44-45 campaign. The Germans fought harder in the east because they knew what was coming to them if they lost.
Yeah, they were saying, "Uh-oh, we're going to get repaid in the same coin."
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Yep, all those rat-bastard, murdering Nazi 8-16 year old girls. Sure got what they deserved. That'll teach them. Idiot.
The Russians often raped their own woman as well, as author claims.
I guess they also have no recollection of Unit 731 either.
The problem is that the Germans who "had it coming" (namely the ones who committed the various offenses of the Nazi regime) were not the ones who got raped. As generally happens in war, grievences get taken out on entire populations
I suppose, in light of the makeup of the 9/11 teams (15 out of 19 Saudi), we have an excuse to gang-rape any Saudi women tourists we meet?
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