I’m reminded of an old Zero Punctuation episode where Yahtzee said Nazis were the perfect video game enemy since you don’t feel any sympathy for them at all and killing them is like eating Skittles
I meant it’s his fault for not being able to play longer
He was no angel
The US dropped nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians to demonstrate their new weaponry to the USSR. No one was playing the piano though so it can’t be used as an example of the evil nature of the US.
If german art is so good, why couldn’t it save his life?
This was apparently fake, just like every other war crime allegation against the USSR
Didn’t Stalin have to put out an order early on telling at least a certain brigade to stop raping people? Or was that made up too?
The book The Russians in Germany: a history of the Soviet Zone of occupation, 1945-1949" by Norman Naimark has a good deal of evidence in the chapter “Soviet Soldiers, German Women, and the Problem of Rape.” There’s no mention of Stalin’s order though, and it mostly condemns smaller units. However, it does quote Stalin’s response to accusations of mass rape in Silesia as being “In every family there is a black sheep,” a Russian proverb. That’s on page 71.
