I replied to someone saying that the USSR defeated the Nazis saying that it was a group effort. Got into an argument and called a Nazi repeatedly because “I was mad that the USSR defeated the Nazis and hated them for it” which is ridiculous. This isn’t the first time that’s happened on Lemmy. What’s up with that?

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    No, that is Nazi propaganda that the US continued propagating through the cold war since it made the Soviets look bad. While there were definitely rapes that occurred, that happens with every occupying army, there was never any evidence of this being a policy or something tolerated by the officers. Any attempt to quantify this shows that American and British soldiers were more prolific in rapes of French women than Soviets anywhere on the Eastern Front, even though the usual refrain is just that the Soviets were better at covering it up than the US or UK, the lack of evidence is itself evidence. Also, most of the studies of this shows that having armed women combat fighters on the front and a more gender integrated military really cut down on the usual “boys will be boys” attitude of not addressing these things.

    The other attempt to try to demonstrate this is the huge spike of recorded abortions in East Germany after the war, but if you think for a second about how Nazi Germany and West Germany outlawed abortions, but abortions became fully legal under East Germany, there might have been another explanation.

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      there was never any evidence of this being a policy or something tolerated by the officers

      …meanwhile…

      Have fun with a wench and take some trifle — Joe “War Crime” Stalin

      Begone tankie

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        Joseph “defeated the Nazis and beat the Americans to space” Stalin, lol

        Which one of your living presidents isn’t a war criminal?

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          bullshit apologism for red army rape and war crimes, claims it wasn’t tolerated

          Show Stalin himself, on record, expressing approval for war crimes

          wHaT aBoUt UsssAa???

          Living proof you have to have some cognitive deficiency to subscribe to the tankie narrative. Go touch some grass or eat dirt or something, the internet is rotting your brain.

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      You’re fucking stupid. My family has first hand experience with all of that, you fucking tankie idiot.

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        Awee someone doesn’t know how to articulate a coherent thought so they just resort to becoming a li’l cave man, Hahaha.