Bombing a city in an ongoing war is quite a bit different than slaughtering tied POW's because, JUST LIKE THE NAZIS, the Russians were "only following orders".
It's quite a bit different that the outright killing or working to death of over a million German POW's, not releasing some ordinary soldiers until the later '50's.
During the Second World War and in the early post-war period, some three million German soldiers and several hundred thousand German civilians were taken prisoner by Soviet forces, or are missing to this day. About 500,000 are known to have died in captivity. More than 500,000 are still listed as missing today.
What happened to those missing half million?
Not to mention the fate of Soviet POW's held by the Germans that were returned to the USSR by the Allies. Why don't you tell our readers what happend to those poor soldiers? Go ahead, tell us all.
SOVIET RAPES IN BERLIN: UNKNOWN TOTAL
The official figures for Berlin rapes by Soviet troops does exist but has never been published. However, Berlin’s former mayor, Ernst Reuter, said that the figure given him was 90,000.
Many rapes of course were never reported and the figure of 90,000 includes only hospitalized cases and doctors reports. Some 10,000 women in Berlin died as a result of rape, mostly from suicide. In the Soviet Zone of Germany nearly 90% of females ages between 10 and 80 were raped. This included women expelled from the eastern provinces.
Most German children born in Berlin in 1946 were the result of rape. Women and young girls were forcibly dragged from their homes and raped, the Soviet Mongolian soldiers queuing up to await their turn. For two whole weeks these mass rapes of women continued. Some Jewish women, thinking that their nationality would save them, showed their identity cards to the rapists but none of them could even read.
Marshal Zhukov issued orders that any soldier caught in the act of rape after the two week period was up, was to be shot on the spot. Many a Russian soldier met his end this way.
Now, go ahead and excuse all these things by once again shouting out
"We Russians sunk to the level of our enemies! We became no better than the Nazis! (But we were only following orders!)
