Reply #15: What the Soviets did in 1945 was not simply 'war'

[brentspeak]

It was definitely one big war crime. Needless to say, the mass rapes and killing of the German civilians by the Soviets had as little military significance as did the bombing of Dresden. And the atrocities did in fact happen; even Stalin at Potsam admitted as such, justifying them on the grounds of "boys will be boys".

And we'll never know exactly how many Soviet civilians were executed during the war for phony charges of "cowardice" and "espionage" by the Soviet military and Stalin's secret police.