Boroda: Miko, don't say such stupid things any more.
The worst Soviet "official war crime" was to let every soldier send 16kg of "trophy" home.
Anyway, the Nuremburg Court stated it straight enough. The real military criminals got what they deserved. I see you read your PRAVDA diligently.
lynx: Miko - you don't have to forget where you came from to be a good American. What the heck is so special about us that makes anyone suppose that russian soldier would be any less raping and murdering bastard then lowlife from any other nation? There are good russians and there are bad russians - like any other nation.
All russian history from the first mention till the current time is full of rape and murder - like any other nation.
Why would soldiers coming from inhumane society, raised in fear and intolerance and serving under the worst conditions of any in WWII and suffering the worst rate of casualties not be among the most cruel when it came to treating civilians?
Wasn't there an unprecedented raise in banditism and murder rate in Soviet Union around the end of the war? Come on! We had thousands of people who engaged in cannibalism in Ukraine in 1930s, let alone murdering people for food. Not even talking about atrocities done during "collectivisation". You expect anyone to believe that the same people would care about any civilised standards once they were serving in Soviet Army in Germany? That the officers would dare to intervene even if they had a reason to care about what soldiers did?
Not that americans did not commit their share of atrocities - Dresden, etc.
As for the evidence and Nurenberg trial, and so few cases of the allied atrocities - what do you expect? The investigations and trials are conducted by the victorious side.
Vae victis! - Woe to the conquered!
miko