The canard foisted on a gullible west by surviving German generals is that the “Red Horde” was an armed mob that overwhelmed the Germans in a tidal wave of numbers. While the Red Army was something of a club that bludgeoned the Germans into submission, and they regularly bought victory at a fearsome blood price, they were not what the Germans portrayed them to be.
By 1945 the Red Army was an immense, well trained, experienced, well led, well equipped professional army willing to do anything to win. The question is not whether we would have pushed them back to the Urals, but whether they would have pushed us back to Dunkirk.
Does a professional, well-discipled army rape two million or more women, and murder anyone and every one they feel like murdering?
I’ve read some of the accounts from eastern Germany and Berlin. The first wave of Russians were quite disciplined and relatively well-behaved. But the guys just behind them were a bunch of wild animals.