Berlin was absolutely devastated in the Red Army's invasion. Over half a million German casualties, somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred thousand rapes, and about a hundred thousand Soviet casualties. In one battle.
I'm willing to bet that if you had polled the residents of Berlin in May of 1945 and offered them a choice: either have an atomic weapon dropped on you or be faced with invasion and occupation by the Red Army, the vast majority would have chosen the former. It was that goddamn awful.
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