>From what I’ve read Stalin told his army that there were no innocent Germans and that they had free reign to do as they pleased.
It’s really hard to track down what happened because both the Soviets and the allies covered up Russian war crimes after the war. What I’m reporting about the front line troops not doing most of the raping is from the words of the survivors. Sometimes they where warned to flee by Red Army front lines troops to avoid being raped by the units following them. To me it sounded like more up the political ladder one was in the Soviet Union the more likely one was to act like a criminal.
Just asking, would that include invading Poland from the East in Sept 1939? I'm trying to think.....something like initiating a "War of Aggression." Yea, that's it!