[spanalot]

“I don’t doubt for a second that rapes and other atrocities were very widespread on the part of the Red Army, but it wasn’t universal.”

http://www.libreopinion.com/members/memoriapamiat/index2.htm

Good God! Are you insane?

The communists who you seem to admire killed 100 million in the last century and Patton was the only one with the good sense to realize this.

[Verginius Rufus]

No, I am not insane, and I do not admire the Communists either of that period or of the current day. One of the great miscarriages of justice since 1989 is that so few (virtually none) of the perpetrators of crimes under the Communist regimes have been brought to justice.

The Holocaust was universal in intention--Hitler and his minions would have killed every last Jew in the world, if they had had the opportunity. The Soviet soldiers committed millions of rapes, but they weren't systematically trying to see to it that every woman in eastern Europe was a victim. So it wasn't universal.

It was because I was aware of the reputation of the Red Army that I listened carefully to see if the speaker would have anything negative to say about the troops who liberated their camp. It may be that they were all so malnourished that the soldiers were simply moved by pity rather than lust.

Apart from the German women, very many women (no doubt millions) in the Slavic countries of eastern Europe were also victims of the Soviet rapists. I remember reading about Tito complaining to Stalin about the Red Army raping women in Yugoslavia--and Yugoslavia was lucky in that the Red Army was just there briefly and didn't stay.