[Altenkrug]

If Russians were totalitarian occupiers there would be no Germany now. It would be just another Russian province. ..

[wetphoenix]

~If Russians were totalitarian occupiers there would be no Germany now. It would be just another Russian province. ..~

True. If they were at least as cruel to German civilian population as Germans were to Russians and Ukrainian, there wouldn’t be a single German left.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The Russians wanted to use German industrial capacity to fight the U.S. Besides, wider wholesale slaughter of German civilians would have tarnished (even further) their international image. Virtually every German woman between 14 and 60 was raped repeatedly by the Red Army in areas that fell under Russian control. Suicide was quite rare in Germany prior to the War. Afterwards, there was no great spike in western occupied parts of Germany, and huge spike in suicides by young women in Russian occupied areas. Draw your own conclusions.

[Dagnabitt]

If Russians were totalitarian occupiers there would be no Germany now. It would be just another Russian province.

You actully posted this in reply to a comment about Estonia? A country that was forcebly held as "just another Russian province" for 50 years? You're joking right?

And that's a joke too regarding totalitarian East Germany?