True, except that the Red Army was more likely to include members of nationalities other than Russian, and was more likely than the German Army, to my knowledge, to have members of the ruling party. That said, ‘Nazi’ is the term that the Soviet propaganda used after WWII to distinguish the Good Germans in DDR from the Bad Germans in West Germany. The mystification has unfortunately succeeded in the West, as shown on this forum, as did the lies about the Soviet War heroes and heroines.
I see the use of the term Nazi as a way of Germans distancing themselves from the sins Germans of that generation committed. I don’t mean to imply that Germans today bear any guilt of the generation of that time but to try and make it appear as if some other worldly entity committed the evils is intellectually dishonest and historically inaccurate. As I’ve stated, it’s almost as if historians and Germans today speak of the Nazis as if they just fell to Earth one day. It’s become the meme over the last few decades for Germany today to see itself as a victim in the Nazi time and personally I find that repulsive. Yes, Germans of faith and conscience attempted to resist and they went to their death in the gas chambers along with the millions of other victims of the Nazis. But to cast the millions of Germans, who for whatever reason they went along with Hitler as some kind of victims is to dishonor the real victims of the Nazis and sullies the courage and the sacrifice of millions who fought to put an end to Nazism. Every time I see those documentaries of Germans marching and stomping around as if the owned the Earth I say to myself “Victims’’? Ha! I’ll say one thing though, them Krauts sure could march. And they sure knew how to turn out a snappy looking uniform.