This Soviet Union Event Shocked EVEN The Nazis

Get the “big picture” with Ground News. Go to https://ground.news/adayinhistory and subscribe for 50% off their unlimited access Vantage plan May 2nd 1945. Hitler is dead. Berlin has been captured. The Nazis have fallen. The war in Europe is finally over. The propaganda said it was a noble victory. Red Army soldiers marching into Berlin and delivering the final blow to the fascist Reich. The evil vanquished, the Motherland avenged, the future bright and hopeful. We know that it wasn’t that simple. The Allies’ moment of triumph after 6 years of war was stained with stories of horrific abuse upon innocent people. The Naizs had turned Europe and beyond red with innocent blood, but the Allies had done their part to spill it too. Not least of all the Red Army whose brutal march into Germany was filled with massacres, looting, and unspeakable amounts of rape. When they reached Berlin, the Soviet soldiers inflicted sexual violence upon civilian women on a massive scale that changed their victims lives’ forever. What happened? How could it be allowed to happen? How did the victims deal with it? Stick with us to the end of the video to learn the entire shameful story. The Crimes Let’s get right to the point: what exactly did the Soviets do? Simply, the Soviets did what so many armies had done before them and what they’d already been doing since pushing the Nazis out of Russia itself. Hundreds of thousands, probably millions, in Eastern Europe had already suffered at their hands. In Hungary, even the mental patients at an asylum at Nagy-Kall weren’t spared. In East Prussia, an area treated with special brutality by the Soviets, half of the known women who survived had been victims of rape. Berliners knew what awaited them. Many fled to the West into the more merciful arms of the Americans and British. But many had no hope of escape. #berlin #wwii #nazis #sovietunion Sources: Alexander Hill, The Red Army and the Second World War, (2017) Antony Beevor, Berlin: The Downfall 1945, (2007) Catherine Merridale, Ivan’s War: The Red Army, 1939-45, (2006) Daniel Johnson, ‘Red Army Troops Raped Even Russian Women As They Freed Them From Camps’, The Telegraph, 24th January 2002, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/1382565/Red-Army-troops-raped-even-Russian-women-as-they-freed-them-from-camps.html Krishna Ignalaga Thomas, ‘Politics of History and Memory: The Russian Rape of Germany in Berlin, 1945’, Historia Vol 16, (2007) Theodore A. Wilson (ed.), When Titans Clashed: How The Read Army Stopped Hitler, (Rev. Ed., 2015) Copyright © 2023 A Day In History. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]