Good question. The USSR certainly did plenty of that in 1945 as they rolled east through Germany. Revenge is never pretty.
This. Rape is horrible and it was terrible what the Russians did as they moved into Germany, but total war is a very nasty business and that’s why wars should be avoided.
Americans think war looks like the video game style of Gulf War 1 or the lawyer-controlled wars of Iraq and Afghanistan where the ROEs caused us to have to buy off the enemy in one country (Iraq) and totally lose and leave with people hanging off the landing gear in the other (Afghanistan).
“It is well that war is so terrible lest we grow fond of it” — Robert E. Lee