Truely, a horrific book that rivals Beevor's Stalingrad and Fall of Berlin
but did they make their prisoners wear undies over their heads??
Russians are a coarse people with coarse habits.
As far as my reading of history goes, the Nazis and the Communists deserved everything they gave to each other. Unfortunately, their citizenry got in the way. There is no difference between the barbarians to the corpses in the ditch.
An elderly but still-beautiful German woman I know grew up in Berlin, the daughter of a prosperous family, and was a teen when the Soviets arrived. She tells tales of horrible brutality. She was raped, of course, but said that the Russians preferred to rape grandmotherly women. What kind of psychosis is that? To this day, my friend detests everything Russian and cannot even be polite to Russians she meets. She may want to read this book, but then again, she may not.
Many years ago I worked overseas, one of the guys was a German, older than the rest of us and deaf in one ear. Turned out he'd been a flak gunner during the fall of Berlin at the age of 12 or 13. We noticed he never received any mail at all.
I have always found it curious that the Russian commies were just as brutal and vicious as the German nazis, but are generally given a pass by the Western media and academia. I put them both in the same class: satan-inspired atheistic criminals who kill with no compunction at all. We must never forget.