Article: 'Stalin's army of rapists: The brutal war crime that Russia and Germany tried to ignore'

and feel no remorse.

Zhukov said his troops were entitled to their fun.

There are good reasons the Germans were terrified of falling into Russian hands. And why no one in the world shed a tear for them.

Even when I did a semester of study in Russia, the profs told us of the war crimes the Russian troops committed. It's not like they don't admit it.

Any word on that?

POWs were sent to the concentration camps. Only a hand full returned. And then Stalin, thinking that anyone in custody that long must have been turned, put them into the gulag.
The good war indeed.

Do you know that Stalin's own son was one? Stalin refused to swap him for someone else, and he then was killed while trying to escape.

on the charge of anti soviet activity.

before the Russians, and many generals asked that women and children be evacuated, but Hitler refused. He felt that the good germans had already fallen, and did not believe anyone deserved to escape the bitter end.

http://womensspace.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/us-troops-in-world-war-ii-raped-and-prostituted-the-comfort-women/

Police officials and Tokyo businessmen established a network of brothels under the auspices of the Recreation and Amusement Association (RAA), which operated with government funds. On Aug. 28, 1945, an advance wave of occupation troops arrived in Atsugi, just south of Tokyo. By nightfall, the troops found the RAA’s first brothel.

“I rushed there with two or three RAA executives, and was surprised to see 500 or 600 soldiers standing in line on the street,” Seiichi Kaburagi, the chief of public relations for the RAA, wrote in a 1972 memoir. He said American MPs were barely able to keep the troops under control.

Though arranged and supervised by the police and civilian government, the system mirrored the comfort stations established by the Japanese military abroad.

The Babe Garden

According to Kaburagi, occupation GIs paid up front and were given tickets and condoms. The first RAA brothel, called Komachien—The Babe Garden—had 38 comfort women, but due to high demand that was quickly increased to 100. Each woman serviced from 15 to 60 clients a day.

In his book “Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII,” American historian John Dower says the charge for a short session with a prostitute was 15 yen, or about a dollar, roughly the cost of half a pack of cigarettes.

Koreans, Philippinos, etc.

Rape and forced prostitution are equally bad for the victims.

Just as what the Red Army did is no more justifiable than what the German Army did.

Sounds familiar.

nobody ever talks about the atrocious behavior of German troops in former USSR.

The fact is nobody knows the exact number of raped russian, ukrainian, jewish women in the Ukraine and Belorus, but judging by the number of partisans - their ranks grew like mushrooms after a good rain.

Just one stat - 623 Belorus villages were torched together with their inhabitants. The Germans knew what was coming and they had it fairly easy.

You only have to open the pages of the old testament to find "historical evidence" of women and young girls taken as sex slaves, raped, etc... Apparently old Yahweh himself approved of these tactics.

Unfortunately, all wars are started by men, and end up being paid for by women. It's a kind of warfare in itself.

You know, it is possible, while defending one side or another in whatever war, to still deplore ALL acts of depravity no matter which side has committed them.

I can understand their conduct. Some of those soldiers served with the 62nd Soviet Army in Stalingrad. After that they were redesignated as the 8th Guards Army. This army marched all the way to heart of Berlin. The soliders of the 8th Guards, marched across a homeland that was laid desolate by a retreating German Army. No villiges, no villigers, no crops, no live stock. All destroyed by the Germans. When they crossed into East Prussia, the Politrucks told the soldiers of the Red Army that they could extract a revenge against the Germans without the iron hand of Soviet Army discipline restraining them. It was revenge, pure and simple, nothing more nothing less.

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