[Jeff Chandler]

You have to love the Time's view of the Soviets as "liberators":

...the Russian liberators... The soldiers swept through in an orgy of rape. ...the city’s liberators.

[montag813]

You have to love the Time's view of the Soviets as "liberators":

Well they did get there first, thanks to Ike incompetence.

[Verginius Rufus]

I recently heard a talk given by a Holocaust survivor, who was a 13-year-old girl in a town in Lithuania when the Germans occupied her town. By good fortune she ended up in a labor camp rather than a death camp--still, 800 of the 1000 women sent there had died of starvation or disease when the Red Army suddenly appeared in their camp in March 1945. She had nothing negative to say about the Russians.

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.

[cake_crumb]

"...the Russian liberators... The soldiers swept through in an orgy of rape. ...the city’s liberators."

THAT is exactly why I have chills know I will have nightmares. Gang raped by their "LIBERATORS"?? "An orgy of rape"....

Ignoring with serious difficulty for the moment my own heritage and the chilling thought that some of these victims and/or even some of their attackers may well be related....

Fast forward to today.

Place this scene in Iraq. Replace the Russian troops with American troops.

Would THEY have been called "liberators??"

[mass55th]

"You have to love the Time's view of the Soviets as "liberators"

I'm surprised they didn't shoot them.