@@felixflatterer6646 I am a historian and my father survived and my oncle did not. I read Other Losses (the book you might refer to?) as well but to quali or quantify Soviet occupation was the worst. Rheinwiesenlager was bad in comparison to what happens now in Gaza but please, check the city of Demmin for example to learn that almost all came back crippled, winner and for sure the loser.
@@felixflatterer6646 if these camps were for extermination, why did nearly all German prisoners walk, alive, out of those camps? Incompetent Amis, they thought the dead could walk!
i was not refering to a book, also what a shame for you to relativate gaza and german suffering. there is no scale of horror in these horrible scenarios , also then the americans do till this day systematically rape and abuse civilians so dont do this little "compare shtikl" and yeah the whole world knows what beasts the russians are @@750suzuki not to speaks of the ubermensch israelis no wonder they are hated worldwide
The Germans were not the only ones to suffer. I befriended some Latvians in my travels who never forgot or forgave the Russians. They claim the nazis were much better overlords.
Really? What a surprise that a Latvian would say that! The fact that they collaborated massively with the Germans has definitely nothing to do with that. No.
Les allemands ! Ils avaient étè un peu plus civilisés par les français ! et les romains leur avait appris à se laver le cul aux thermes , enfin avant le Limes, le mur que Rome a construit quand elle a compris que les Germains ne perdaient pas leur temps dans les arts autre que la guerre et la culture de la patate , ce qui leur donnait un certain avantage tacttique vu qu’ils ne sculptaient pas finement le marbre mais s’entrainaient à couper des têtes sur des billaux de bois ! Les russes ? On se demande qui leur a donné une cervelle! Peut être Attila le Hun, Il nous emmerdent depuis 100 ans ! Ils trouvent toujours une connerie à rèpendre sur la planète pour faire quelques millions de morts !
@@anthonywitherspoon6109 What was he going to do? Depending on the situation, there may have only been one way of having a chance of affecting the situation--being willing to kill his own men and likely be killed in return. That was likely his only option.
My wife's grandmother lived in Poland during WWII (at ages 12-18). Toward the end of the war, she told of seeing the front-line shift back and forth between the Russians and Germans. She was very clear about one point: As bad as the Germans were, the Russians were worse---and this is even after having witnessed a teen friend being shot and killed by an SS soldier. Among other incidents with the Russians, she told of a friend who had died after being gang raped by them.
I have an almost identical story which an aunt from upper slesia who grew up close to Skoczow told me ... saying the exact same thing ... Russians like animals ... and that after having experienced the Nazis.
I had a Polish-American secretary, whose mother was a child back then and she said her mother always told her the same thing, that both were bad but the Russians were worse.
I read a book by a German nurse (she & her mother, a doctor, tended to whoever needed help throughout the war) At the end of the war, they prayed the Americans would get to their town first, as the stories coming from people who had fled from the advancing Russian army were horrific.
Thanks to this gentleman and Lew Kopelev who didn’t join the others. Mr. Kopelev was sentenced to the gulag for protecting the german women in eat prussia.
Focus of allied Teheran and Yalta conferences had been to destroy Prussia as a state, to destroy Prussian culture and to eliminate and replace existing inhabitants. Profound ethnic cleansing, including all atrocities related to such a crime. This is what the allies had decided and this is what the allies did.
My granda from Slovakia told me that when Germans came they asked for some food and possible shelter. When Russians came, they took everything they could from their cows, clothes, alcohol, all food etc.
I understand that those Russians had suffered terribly at the hands of the germans but what they did to those women and girls was pure evil and unforgivable... Its a sad world we live in full of monsters
Yes, even though it's injustifiable, they did it because they were too hateful not to and wanted revenge. That's the thing about people is that they seek revenge a lot instead of forgiveness and that is horrible.
@@jarraandyftm Ukraine is a young artificial communist-created state with boundaries yet to be defined. At the moment Russia is just claiming back the lands which were Russian for centuries. Google Catherine the Great and Russian expansion in the 18th century.
It's the same old thing als always: Bring people into a situation where there is nothing to enforce rules, like when you just won a war and the enemy can't stop you from doing whatever you want, and people will split into two groups: Those who still act morally, and those who will do whatever they can get away with.
@@MaxRoth-mc6nb The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilians. How many people facing this reality would remain with good mental faculties?
@@marcosffontes Stalinists massacred 12 to 14 millions of Ukrainians without any "revenge" aspects long before. They committed similar crimes throughout Eastern Europe and the Eastern Part of Central Europe before Hitler's party had even been founded, and long before they received massive support for their crimes through Lend Lease Program from Canada and the USA .
Americans were the same. Top U.S. military commanders knowing how sex starved, perverted their men are, told the troops just before D-Day, French women, and others would be so happy they liberated them from the Germans, sex would be the reward. So, over 40,000 women were raped during the American death and destruction rampage across Europe. It is said, one million were raped during the Vietnam War. What the world saw in Irag, Afghanistan was just a small taste of what Americans are really like. Most atrocities of theirs are quickly covered up, to keep the false, spreading liberty, democracy propaganda alive.
If the events in come and see happened to me if I was a Belarusian, then id probably be all for getting revenge on germany since the germans also commited genocide on all russian people. Not just the jews
THey weren't Russian oh goodness, they were the Mongolian regiment, the Russians actually tried to stop it by shooting at their own soldiers but the Mongolian regiment wore Russian uniform this the confusion, and this is why 80% of Germans of today look 90% Mongolian and nothing like Russians or Germans of world war 2. The Americans assaulted so vastly that no women in Germany between the age of 8-60 were safe from them , the Americans later made their own wives wear a band so they wouldn't get confused as a German woman and get assaulted, it is said that approximately 1-5 million children were born to German women form Americans .soldiers including almost half a million from the back soldiers . 😢😢😢
Kudos to this eyewitness soldier who tells us what really happened. God's judgement will fall hard on the monsters who committed these crimes against the innocent victims of war. Count on it.
Nothing happend to these monsters and there were no judgment. If there is sutch a thing as a God, he clearly seem to be good with all type of evil things. The same way animals protect themselfs from that Who wants to hurt them, so must humans. Never relay on anyone else's protection.
If your god exists, he's in no position to judge. In fact, he's as guilty as the perpetrators because...a) having had knowledge of what was going to happen, he did nothing to prevent it when he could have, and b) simply allowed it to proceed while he watched on without intervening to protect the innocent victims. By his calculated indifference, he has facilitated every murder, every rape, every crime of violence committed by one human being against another throughout man's history. The simple explanation is - this god does not exist.
@@ToddBrittain1963not necessarily some see our place on earth as simply a place of judgment god will not intervene but will judge when our time comes . The mistake non believers have is to assume life on earth is the be all of everything when to believers its simply a transition.. Not saying your wrong but I'd be more open minded None of us know for sure
"Death defying mutilated armies scatter the earth, crawling out of dirty holes their morals disappear." Jon Anderson 1969. I often wondered what this line meant. Now I know. In a war people's morals disappear.
Amazing to me that humans can hear these atrocious accounts of torture and murder and still believe there is an all powerful and benevolent god in the sky who runs a fancy divine hotel for the deceased. Mental illness.
Oh for fucks sake. How in the hell (pun intended) did your shit box god let that happen to those girls. The delusion of you religious nuts knows no bounds.
This poor man has to literally hold his head together with those horrific memories and pictures.... When will mankind learn?! Now we enter another era of wars 😢
@@spacetofu19 Even in those ancient times, tribal warfare, rape and genocide was constant. We also probably contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals. Humans are flawed, aggressive and territorial creatures. It's in our DNA. We are destined to go extinct by killing each other at some point. Google Fermi Paradox.
That was shame. He is not innocent. His story doesnt make much sense. He encountered these girls and told them to run away which they did. Yet when he went inside he heard screams and went to the window to see them commander ordering 2 lines. How did they not get farther away in the time it took him to go back inside then hear the scream?
They were red army not human who ate girls but video been changed they were lower kind of humans been telport. Lower frequency they ate girls. His worden been cut out changed 😮
He partook in the rape of those girls. Pretty sick really, especially if you’re not the first bloke to be banging them. If you’re the last, you’re basically covering your schmeckle with other men’s mangoo which makes you a finork.
@@shilombaba clearly you're another willful idiot that is now getting to finally become a minority, thank science, logic and critical thought, (the 3 things you willful idiots universally reject, with hate in your hearts, like most anything progressive) Whatever needs justifying, just use your Sky daddy mental gymnastics. Even an unindoctrinated 8 year old can point it out, if they're allowed to... Religion pushes war, atrocities,that only hate through stout belief can reek upon humanity, as history has repeatedly demonstrated, since before the time our ape species figured how to make distinctive and uniform markings in clay tablets. If everything is according to that asshole,or assholes(I don't discriminate willful stupidity, since its all stupid), I choose nothing to do with it, yet the willful idiots of the globe refuse to let that peace be. Give me solid proof that all the goat herders of millenia ago, who had absolutely zero clue where even the sun goes at night, and would put one to death for even daring to contradict them, that they absolutely got everything right. You can't. It doesn't exist, it's a social disease that's been dangerous to thinking and logic from the beginning of time. Tell a wilful idiot there's a sky daddy watching everything they do, they believe it, no questions asked. Put a wet paint sign on wet paint and they have to touch it to believe the sign. God is man made, to go hand in hand with war and atrocities to be justified. In which case, God ain't resting shit, it's full on war, pillage rape and slavery, world-wide, non-stop terror driven by religion, hand in hand with corporate greed. God's plan, indeed. As there are absolute proofs to the entire willful idiocy, world-wide, that you willful idiots never fail to demonstrate: God is a broke, angry and violent snowflake, with a jumpy trigger finger. I guess after all the unchecked rape, murdering and incest, one tends to become like that....
my grandpa always said according to my fathers statement "the last bullet is for me, before getting imprisoned by the Russian army". Grandpa died on his way back to Germany in April 45 not making his way home. 2 weeks later war was over.
How naive can anyone be - this behaviour is fairly normal in warfare, and almost every nationality is guilty of it, please check the facts before assuming one country is worse than others.
In Erich Hartmann's book, "The Blonde Knight," he described witnessing the mass rape of German women and girls by Russian soldiers. This was when the Americans handed him, his unit, and several civilians over to the Red Army.
@@mariahewitt1841 I disagree There was much going on strategically which prevented the US/UK from reaching Berlin. Primarily because they chose to go south to Bavaria...
There are a lot of people hating on Russian people in the comments, calling all Russians animals. Somehow the Russians are subhuman in the minds of the hateful rhetorists like some people in the comments. Well, let me tell you this. The Nazi soldiers burned the entire village of my Ukrainian ancestors in the early stages of WW2. The sister of my grandfather vividly remembered invading soldiers throwing a Molotov cocktail into a house where she lived as a little girl. The father of my grandfather (a Ukrainian serving in the Soviet Army) died defending Kiev. My grandfather, was adopted by a Russian man, who was a firefighter, and was extinguishing fires in Kiev and Eastern Ukraine. My grandfather was rejoiced to see how kind and selfless his Russian adoptive father was. So, was my grandfather's adoptive father also just a savage animal by your logic just because he was Russian??? So, for anyone whose mind is boiling from bigotry. If you were able to read at least to this point, you at least value intellectual honesty, so please remember. By painting all the people of one nationality as the same, you are just feeding a hateful narrative that will bring only more suffering in the future. The only thing I hope is that you will not spread hatred anymore, be it hatred against Jews, Germans, Russians, Ukrainians, Arabs, French, American, any other nationality. There are tons of bad people and there are tons of great people born in every place on this Earth, period.
In fact, it is dangerous to generalize, but some cultures have differences or more common behaviors, the Soviets were at the same level or worse than the Germans most of the time, whether due to cultural reasons or the nature of the regime. But each human being is unique and even in the middle of an invading army, not everyone wanted to be there or agree with what others were doing.
@@M1sc3Germans were at least 10 worster than Russians in WW2 lol The Germans killed over 19 Million Soviet civilians !! In Belarus alone over 10.000 villages got annihilated and entire families got burned alive including children !!
Believe me : thé Ukrainiens did thé same to Poland with thé back up of Russians!!! But Poland is strong and forgives and helps thé Ukrainiens…. So step further if not bipolar judgments like ‘thé good / thé evil ´ Will never end and neither wars !
No one escapes the evil he does onto even the tiniest of creatures. Once you leave the body, unprotected by the (false) barriers of the mind, the impact of what you did to others will devastate your soul thousands of time more than you can experience on this plane of existance. The only true choice is either wake up to who you truly are, or endlessly fall back into suffering.
After they gave East Prussia to the USSR, my grandmother-in-law walked 800 miles to Bavaria with two children and a baby, along way she was raped 17 times by Allied troops and buried two of the three children. The baby survived and became my father-in-law.
You are correct but most went to Russia, and many of the Polish who rushed in killed MANY Germans. They were understandably angry. There were many reasons the civilians had minutes to hours to flee. @@roddeazevedo
It's interesting how people always blame The US/UK for warcrimes and colonialism. But this kind of barbarism RARELY happened. I mean think rationally: Would you rather be occupied by russians or Americans?
Neather becouse Americans did the same, 😂 bruh look up the Rheinwiesenlager and how many Woman and Children American Soldiers killed, you are no different from Germany to Vietnam to Afghanistan, you are all the same not to mention the vile Morgentau plan, that Rosevelt signed were he planned to kill 30 million German Civillians.
my father was a marine sergeant in the vietnam war and he told us very little when he was back home, but he did say ''Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see '' It's always possible that the man in this video is partially lying . No doubt horrible things happened . But one never knows Napoleon is quoted as saying ''War is a fable agreed upon '
This story was sickening but important. Also, as horrible and painful as it is, one has to realize that many present-day Russian soldiers are just as bad as their predecessors in World War Two. Think of what Russian soldiers have done to Ukrainian women. It's just a s bad as what they did to German women back in the 1940's.
Glad this has come out & all to often suppressed by the media. My father, who was too young to volunteer for active duty told me of the unspeakable horrors Russia committed against the German civilian population and POW's alike - all conveniently SUPRESSED!.
Russian Solders bad in WWII? American Troops raped between 250,000 and 700,000 German Women. There was so much rape committed in Japan by US Troops, that the United States ran out of penicillin, that President Truman tried to put a stop to it. Not for the benefit of the foreign women being raped, after all, they were 'subhuman', but for the poor Americans back home suffering thru the shortage. All this done by the "The Greatest Generation". Odd, huh?
German soldiers burned the entire village where my ancestors lived in Ukraine . The sister of my grandfather vividly remembered German soldiers throwing a Molotov cocktail into a house where she lived as a little girl. The father of my grandfather was a Ukrainian, and he also was a soldier that joined the Red Army, and he died defending Kiev. My grandfather was adopted by a Russian man, who was a firefighter, and was extinguishing fires in Kiev. So, your attempt to portray all the Russian soldiers as monsters is futile. You are just feeding a hateful narrative that will bring only more suffering in the future, and yet you are happy to do it. The only thing I hope is that you will not spread hatred anymore.
@@martinkubis4470 Just wondering, what did the US Troops want that justified the rape of hundreds of thousands of German women, and the extermination of over 1 million Germans in a US run Concentration Camp, with over half of the 1 million dead being women and children?
The treatment of women in both sides was horrendous. The Germans were terrified of the Russian invasion, because the Germans had been so brutal when they occupied Russia. Soviet women soldiers who were captured, were summarily shot.
Le communisme , que c’est beau ! Je connaissais Pol Pot , mais lá, c’est du même niveau . On comprend pourquoi Churchill avait dit en parlant de la victoire sur les Nazis : " Je crois que l’on n’a pas tué le bon cochon" Il avait compris que les communistes Russes ne valaient pas mieux , voire étaient pire que les Nazis!
BONJOURS MONSIEUR, DU CANADA IL Y A UN LIVRE Q'UNE DAME ALLEMANDE A ÉCRIT ET IL A ÉTÉ DISTRIBUÉ SEULEMENT APRÈS LA MORT DE L'ÉCRIVAINE, SON LIBRE----A WOMEN IN BERLIN-- LES ALLIÉS ONT LAISSÉ UN RÉGIMENT DE NOIRS EN FRANCE ET ILS ONT VIOLÉ TOUT CE QUI BOUGEAIENT AINSI QUE LES FRANÇAIS EN ITALIE ONT FAIT PAREIL. QUAND LES ALLEMANDS ONT ÉCRIENT À LEUR FEMMES,ILS ONT INDIQUÉ QUE LES FEMMES À PARIS SE MAQUILLAIENT ET S'HABILLAIENT COME NO PROSTITUÉE EN ALLEMAGNE
In eastern europe we’ve been warning about this for years. People in the west have no idea what Russia really is. Soon we will hear more stories like this from Ukraine.
Assuming that a huge part of eastern europe back then was under ussr and took part in red army, be careful, maybe some of these rapists were not so far from you.
don't be stupid ww2 was 80 years ago. Modern russians are the great great grand children of the russians who did these atrocities. Over all that time russian society has changed a huge amount. Modern russians are christian and don't live in the absolute hell hole that was the soviet union.
what always kinda stuck with me was at 2:12 he mentions how it was the fall of Carthage. It show or implies he was an educated man compared to his comrades. His eyes he has seen things and heard things.
@@scottmitchell6344 laughter has been associated with absurdity. And also release of trauma from the nervous system. Not unlike a conversion disorder. People are also exhilarated when they successfully escape from being shot at. It is very "funny" to get shot at yet one survives fully intact. Even if there's truly nothing funny about the shooters such as incompetence or dumb decisions. So that's not exactly humor. It's discharge of absurdity that converts into laughter. Like when you say you have a "funny" feeling. It's not really that funny is it?
Japanese soldiers did the same to Chinese and Korean women, too. War is all about conquest, not just the land and governance, but the women. Those who survived the mass rape bore the children of the enemies.
No je wouldn't - he was urging the "valiant" Soviet army to rape and murder their way across Germany. The Red Army had a crime called "Bourgeoisie Humanitarianism" for officers and men who complained about atrocities - this man would have been found guilty.
Our country was “liberates” by Soviets too. Everyone said they were worse than Germans… Russians never change and you can see this in Ukraine right now. Yet, we still think its not “our” war, its far away and we dont help enough. Same like we (Czechoslovakia) were sold to Hitler as West though it will be enough for him… and we know where it all led to 😢 History always repeat.
@@mind-blowing_tumbleweedsome low % yes, but everything was dictated by Stalin. Same about Holodomor in UA by their “brothers”. Russia is evil, always was.
War and hatred bring out the absolute worst in people. We can't fix what has already happened, but we can strive to prevent it from ever happening again.
Rape by soldiers continues to happen to this day. I have heard hacked phone conversations of Russians soldiers in Ukraine telling their wives/girlfriends about raping Ukrainian women and their partners are actually laughing, and encouraging them! It’s beyond my comprehension, not only that these animals are rapists but that they are encouraged by their partners. What a sick world we live in!
We are striving to prevent war, but the results are disappointing AF. American women are so holier-than-thou . . . making millions being internet whores, emasculating men, dropping babies like it's a contest,
@@Achill101 or because he participated? Stalin would have laughed it off anyway. The bolsheviks' red army had a policy of murdering "the blond witch". Any army that murders unarmed men, women, and children is an army of Cowards.
I’m glad he shared his experiences, even when they might be… hard to share. It’s unlikely we’ll ever see justice for those crimes because of A: how long it’s been since the incident occurred and B: it was widely seen as acceptable behavior because of what the Germans did to the Polish. The Germans, throughout the war, were expanding their territory east into Poland and the polish that lived there were raped and killed and forced from their homes. Russian forces sweeping across Poland were becoming all too familiar with German death/work camps. Keeping those atrocities in mind just fueled the allied forces to commit atrocities of their own.
This is the real truth of humanity. These kinds of atrocities are going on for thousands of years all around the globe. Women always become the ultimate target and suffer the most in all the wars everywhere...
Even if the females had been SS guards, they should not have had to endure rape. For the poor ethnic German girls involved, this is a crime against humanity. I'm sorry they had to suffer this, even if, had their Nazi leaders had proved victorius, a million plus a million women would have suffered even more humiliation and cruelty.
Oh no it's definitely not. The Japanese cut open preteen girl's vagina's to "further open them up" before raping them. And they killed babies with a bayonet. War is uglier than hell. At least in hell there are no innocents.
There is a similar video (probably more than one) of an Allied officer describing a similar attack on 2 young German girls who were hoping for help and safety - they didn't get shot but died from the fact that the Allied soldiers (I forget their nationality) didn't stop until they were dead. The rape of Nanking by Japanese soldiers is self explanatory and well documented, with Japanese newspapers gleefully printing about it. I suppose if you turn people into killing machines and put them into a situation where they can be attacked at almost any time, have seen comrades die or be injured, then previous normal behaviour becomes a distant memory, and is replaced with some type of primitive savage 'normality'
Difference is the allied soldiers did this rarely, as a crime, in secret. Russians did this en masse in full view of their officers. It was essentially a USSR state policy.
I remember at the beginning of the 2000s, I watched the “military affairs” program. There, one Red Army veteran said that when they liberated the territory of the USSR, they walked along the streets of one city. And one little boy came up to them, he was wearing a German officer's cap. He said that he was German, then they got angry and shot him. After what the Germans did on the territory of the USSR. Their hatred of the Germans was very strong. They were imbued with anger and cruelty. So their behavior in Germany does not surprise me at all. Although this is of course a crime!
Not really, i think barbarism was and is still very strong in the russian population, especially after they had be dehumanized by the Communists. You could also see it in todays Ukraine war.
@@Freigeist2008 I assume that you have never been to Russia. The Americans also committed many war crimes in Vietnam, Iraq, etc. But I don't call them barbarians. But Russian troops do not commit such barbarity as the Nazis or the Japanese in World War III. It is not good to label an entire nation based on tendentious news from the Western media!
@@Freigeist2008 It exists in literally *every* single population. We are all animals in the end which means we have mostly the same possibility of becoming a beast whenever a situation is extreme enough. I hope that you never go though what these people did. Our current societies are very fragile mentally and I believe with the constant banning/censoring of historical events, books and even whole religions worldwide we may quite soon see a very dark period coming for us as well.
Harder than it sounds. In 1612, an invading Polish army was massacred. In 1709, Charles the 7th of Sweden led an army into Russia, and was beaten and booted out. Even the mighty Napoleon failed miserably in Russia. As did Hitler and his powerful German army. Not to mention during Russia's civil war, 1918 - 1920, French, British, and even American soldiers intervened to help the 'White Russian' resistance fight the Red Army under Lenin's Bolsheviks. But it failed, there were too many Red soldiers, and the Soviet Union was created. The Soviet Union did eventually fall apart, though mostly from within. It may be the same with Russia today. A takeover of Russia would most likely require a gigantic invasion with many nations participating, but the trouble with that is other countries would likely also move to support Russia, provoking a massive, possible world war. And nuclear weapons might be used by somebody if it escalated enough. More should be done to get Russia out of Ukraine, I believe that, but Russia itself needs to deal with itself, and just maybe, will fall, like the Soviet system before it, but this time turn into something better, less aggressive, and more productive and peaceful. I'm sure a lot of ordinary Russian citizens would agree.
As a felow german, i will never forgive the russian soldiers for what they did to the women and all others after they "Liberated" berlin and germany itsef. On the contrary this man looked to be a decent soul.
I'm sorry, mein freund, but you are not in the position to forgive here. Every Soviet and Russian child grew up knowing what the Germans did: burnt whole villages alive, experimented on children, gassed, burnt millions of people. Thank God that today people can visit former extermination camps and see what the Nazis used to do to people. Forgiveness is the luxury you can't afford.
Red army is trash, the Wehrmaht is no different, so dont be so entitled, your side attacked first. Only difference is the mass rape on the soviet side and the mass killing of jews and war captives on the nazis part
@@wsxfafoxws You unintentionally exposed yourself to be of exactly the same type as the childraping Soviets. The amount of irony is incredible, but you probably don't understand what that means. Those corpse eating pigs are of more value to the world then you are.
Let’s not forget the Germans killed 20 million Russians. Our own USArmy had My Lai and numerous other atrocities. #1 rule of war : dehumanize the other side. Once you have done that, all atrocities are possible. All wars are terrible. Greetings and wishes of good health to all from Orange County, California.
If you went to school in California, you should know that no one could possibly "forget" about Nazi war crimes, considering we were beaten over the head with that information in every high school history class. So that whataboutism was really unnecessary. We never learned about what the Soviets did to the women of Germany.
Every Germans at that time knew what was coming because of what they did to the soviets. If you invade a country and treated them as animals but somehow the situation got reversed you know what is coming.
@AB-uw3os : I, too, find it upsetting when bedrock principles become elastic if they suit someone's short-term goals. I find realpolitik based on such moral flexibility disgusting, even though it was so common in the West during and after WW2. For example, before helping Russia fight Germany during WW2, how could we forget that WW2 was started as a premeditated act with Russia joining Nazi Germany in attacking and then dividing Poland (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)? The West helping Russia fight Germany is an example of practiced realpolitik. This is one time when I probably would have done the same if in the position of power, simply because the threat and the costs were so great. The problem with this approach is that my assessment of the cost being high enough to justify an unprincipled policy may differ greatly from whoever makes decisions at any given time. This is the problem with democracy and democratic politicians for whom popular opinions, which often do not tolerate any cost, are the justification for realpolitik. This is what all authoritarians, including Putin, count on. Now, on the difference between Ukrainian and Russian cultures. You may or may not know, but your view that there is no difference between them is, in fact, Russian propaganda. Just look at Putin's drivel that ideologically underpins Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine: en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181. Reality cannot be further from the truth. Let's start with the language (you misspelled the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv). Putin and the Russian world see the Ukrainian language as the dialect of Russian but Serbian and Bolgarian as separate languages. The reality is that Ukrainainn is further away from Russian than either of those languages and is the closest to Belarusian and Polish (www.openculture.com/2017/08/a-colorful-map-visualizes-the-lexical-distances-between-europes-languages.html). Judge for yourself from this example: preply.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Ukrainian-language-difference-7-copy.jpg. To close this topic, Ukrainian has more words in its dictionary (at least 260K) than Russian has (~200K). Most scholars agree that the older the language, the more words it has. Now consider the culture. Russian culture is, in fact, Asian and is directly traced to the Golden Horde and further to the Mongol Empire. For example, revered Russian historical figure and Orthodox Saint Alexander Nevsky is, in fact, a Goden Horde vassal fighting European powers (photos.com/featured/prince-alexander-nevsky-begging-batu-heritage-images.html?product=canvas-print). For centuries and now Russian culture is based on the fear of punishment, not right and wrong. This cultural trait is directly traceable to Genghis Khan's view of extreme terror that would deter anyone from harming a beautiful woman traveling across his empire. Pragmatically, Russians believe that a strong state is essential to rule Russia, the last remaining land empire. Let's look at a more recent past. When a Ukrainian serf, Taras Shevchenko, essential to understanding modern Ukranais ethnos, was writing, "Keep fighting - you are sure to win! God helps you in your fight! For fame and freedom march with you, And right is on your side!," the great Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev was admitting that "Russian people are lazy and slow, and not accustomed to thinking independently, nor acting consistently." Today, look at the national anthems of the two countries. Ukrainians sing, hand on the heart, that "Soul and body shall we lay down for our freedom." Russians glorify "Russia is our sacred state" and "We are given strength by our fidelity to the Fatherland." Ukrainians have had two revolutions in the last 20 years, fighting for their freedom and the right to choose their future (if you have not yet seen Winter on Fire, you ought to if you want to understand the difference between the two cultures, not nationalities: ruclips.net/video/yzNxLzFfR5w/видео.html). At the same time, Russians are obediently reelecting Putin because he restored Russia's "greatness," which makes them feel good. The world has, indeed, changed a lot since 1945. But not the Russian world: war.ukraine.ua/russia-war-crimes/, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine. I can give you individual examples if you can stomach them. For example, the execution of a prisoner of war who was forced to dig his own grave and executed as we were saying Slava Ukraini (Glory to Ukraine): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Oleksandr_Matsievskyi, war.obozrevatel.com/zastavili-kopat-sebe-mogilu-v-seti-obratili-vnimanie-na-zhutkie-detali-s-rasstrelom-okkupantami-ukrainskogo-voina.htm. Or castration and murder of another Ukrainian POW (caution, this is genuinely horrific Russian barbarism): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_and_castration_of_a_Ukrainian_POW_in_Pryvillia. The Russian world never changes and will only end if we help the Ukranians defeat this truly evil empire. If not, we will be fighting it ourselves in the not-too-distant future.
Wolin massacre. Could you supply us with some details, please? Which Polish children did the Ukrainians nail by the tongue to the barn doors and which did they wrap in hay and lit them to run burning to their deaths? How did the Ukrainians choose the manner in which to murder the hundreds of thousands of Poles and Jews? You could put here the exact instructions of the Ukrainian national heroes and rapists and child murderers.
No military is perfect and all have committed sins, but the Soviet/Russian Army has a history of acts like this. Their lack of professionalism continues on to this day.
The Americans did it too. My elderly German friend was 8 when the war ended . Her father slaughtered a cow and traded with Russians to get her , her mother and her sister to an American refugee camp. They hid under blankets in the back of a truck to the border and just lifted the wire to cross at that time. In the American camp , they would hear German women screaming as American soldiers raped them at night. She just told me this story. “ everyone knew what it was… why they were screaming .”
Leonid mackintosh describes Russia as like Europe except cruder and more brutal...misery, sadism humiliation, sexual assault is woven into the fabric of their society a hang over from the gulag days where millions of Russians were sent and where that behaviour was common place.
Get your facts straight before assuming. The subs gave a wrong translation, he said " pochti pogolovno" which in Russian means "nearly everyone". Those who were raping, they would deny it. Those who were against it, they speak up. With a hypocritical Russian authorities denying the very fact that the rapes took place.
@@kurbanovmfirst of all, I’m not assuming, what he said, I was going directly off the translation. And from what I can tell “pochti pogolovno” can also be translated to “almost all the time” So the translation is contextual and ambiguous at best. Finally, this piece of shit participated in the rape and murder of innocent civilians, either directly or by standing by and watching. Feral dog that he is.
At 1.47 time he laughs. Jeez…. Also at 6.10 time when he talks about only the skulls were left, he also smiles. While it’s good to document these atrocities, it’s disgusting to see his expressions.
Subtitles are not word-for-word; they only capture the jist of his description. The part you noted starts with him saying that Russian female phone operators were laughing while watching the mass rape of German women and children. He then says they (operators) were also vulgar (using swear words excessively). And as he recalls that, he cackles.
Just goes to show, in a war there is no good or bad side, they are all the same. And the disgraceful stupidity when the church prays to bless their side’s weapons is truly disgusting
War is just bad on all sides. The devil works hard. I’m glad to hear all sides of a war. There is empathy to be shown on all sides. Devastating to hear though. I sometimes think I want to hear but then I mentally block the information past a certain point. The details I can’t bear.
I imagine that Major Andrianov found his way to some hell or another, and I believe being in a hellish moment beyond my understanding led to the collective mindset in the other rapists. One of my favorite Americans, an inspiration to me, said that war is all hell. I wish this story was absolutely unique in my forty plus years of study of Eastern Front operations; it isn't. I hope the telling if this brought the former platoon leader peace, and that the participants sought and found forgiveness. I believe the victims, being children, were with Jesus in the moment after their deaths, and beyond the cruelties this world provides. Whether one commits such crimes or only knows of them, ours is a difficult, if not impossible place to find peace, and so after I write this, I will pray that we all find peace here,and beyond this world. Bog c Nami vshegda!
This is the reason why many German civilians were running west to the Americans & British sectors.........
rheinwiesenlager was not a prison camp, it was extermination camps...
@@felixflatterer6646 I am a historian and my father survived and my oncle did not. I read Other Losses (the book you might refer to?) as well but to quali or quantify Soviet occupation was the worst.
Rheinwiesenlager was bad in comparison to what happens now in Gaza but please, check the city of Demmin for example to learn that almost all came back crippled, winner and for sure the loser.
@@felixflatterer6646 if these camps were for extermination, why did nearly all German prisoners walk, alive, out of those camps? Incompetent Amis, they thought the dead could walk!
i was not refering to a book, also what a shame for you to relativate gaza and german suffering. there is no scale of horror in these horrible scenarios , also then the americans do till this day systematically rape and abuse civilians so dont do this little "compare shtikl" and yeah the whole world knows what beasts the russians are @@750suzuki not to speaks of the ubermensch israelis no wonder they are hated worldwide
naravno, tamo nisu bile "silovane", tamo su dobrovoljno davale americkim i engleskim okupatorima i za to dobijale adekvatnu materijalnu nadoknadu
The Germans were not the only ones to suffer. I befriended some Latvians in my travels who never forgot or forgave the Russians. They claim the nazis were much better overlords.
Really? What a surprise that a Latvian would say that! The fact that they collaborated massively with the Germans has definitely nothing to do with that. No.
Germans considered Latvians as arians, so their opinion has same worth as Austrian opinion on Germans.
@@naneri No they didn't. The Germans only considered arians themselves, the Scandinavians and the British. Noone else
Les allemands ! Ils avaient étè un peu plus civilisés par les français ! et les romains leur avait appris à se laver le cul aux thermes , enfin avant le Limes, le mur que Rome a construit quand elle a compris que les Germains ne perdaient pas leur temps dans les arts autre que la guerre et la culture de la patate , ce qui leur donnait un certain avantage tacttique vu qu’ils ne sculptaient pas finement le marbre mais s’entrainaient à couper des têtes sur des billaux de bois ! Les russes ? On se demande qui leur a donné une cervelle! Peut être Attila le Hun, Il nous emmerdent depuis 100 ans ! Ils trouvent toujours une connerie à rèpendre sur la planète pour faire quelques millions de morts !
Not if you were Jewish, I'll bet.
This was so hard to watch and I thank the Russian soldier for bearing witness to these horrific events.
He said Everyone took part.
Their officers ordered them to take part. He was there, he is not Innocent.
@@anthonywitherspoon6109he was hiding his face with his hand when speaking about complicity
@@anthonywitherspoon6109 What was he going to do? Depending on the situation, there may have only been one way of having a chance of affecting the situation--being willing to kill his own men and likely be killed in return. That was likely his only option.
@@Roybatty066 He did indeed. I don't know Russian but the word for everyone is unlikely to mean literally every single one.
My wife's grandmother lived in Poland during WWII (at ages 12-18). Toward the end of the war, she told of seeing the front-line shift back and forth between the Russians and Germans. She was very clear about one point: As bad as the Germans were, the Russians were worse---and this is even after having witnessed a teen friend being shot and killed by an SS soldier. Among other incidents with the Russians, she told of a friend who had died after being gang raped by them.
I have an almost identical story which an aunt from upper slesia who grew up close to Skoczow told me ... saying the exact same thing ... Russians like animals ... and that after having experienced the Nazis.
I had a Polish-American secretary, whose mother was a child back then and she said her mother always told her the same thing, that both were bad but the Russians were worse.
I read a book by a German nurse (she & her mother, a doctor, tended to whoever needed help throughout the war) At the end of the war, they prayed the Americans would get to their town first, as the stories coming from people who had fled from the advancing Russian army were horrific.
There was no gangs in the red army ignorant arrogant ass
@@dreamsofturtles1828Did they also listen to the stories of the Russian
population under German
Einsatzgruppen?!?!
Thanks to this gentleman and Lew Kopelev who didn’t join the others. Mr. Kopelev was sentenced to the gulag for protecting the german women in eat prussia.
eat prussia ?
@@williamwallace5857 no, not that
@@williamwallace5857 it's east Prussia (1525-1947)
Focus of allied Teheran and Yalta conferences had been to destroy Prussia as a state, to destroy Prussian culture and to eliminate and replace existing inhabitants. Profound ethnic cleansing, including all atrocities related to such a crime. This is what the allies had decided and this is what the allies did.
@@SuspiriaX Yes I know but he said eat prussia.
My granda from Slovakia told me that when Germans came they asked for some food and possible shelter. When Russians came, they took everything they could from their cows, clothes, alcohol, all food etc.
Humanity can be so angry and hateful. Is there no peace?
'I and the public know/What all schoolchildren learn,/Those to whom evil is done/Do evil in return.' WH Auden
Human beings are crazy!… so nope
@@be.prepared.to.do.that.i think a jew
@@be.prepared.to.do.that. Most comisars we're jews
The Soviet army is the dirty animals of Marxism-multiculturalism that destroyed Europe. NO FORGIVENESS FOR THEM!
Leadership set the example, Stalin was a criminal and murderer long before WWII and Hitler not far behind.
I understand that those Russians had suffered terribly at the hands of the germans but what they did to those women and girls was pure evil and unforgivable... Its a sad world we live in full of monsters
Yes, even though it's injustifiable, they did it because they were too hateful not to and wanted revenge. That's the thing about people is that they seek revenge a lot instead of forgiveness and that is horrible.
it's a big lesson for the future -- don't come over to Russia uninvited.
@@denislabutin5465who invited Russia into Ukraine?
@@jarraandyftmlooks like nato and Ukraine invited them
@@jarraandyftm Ukraine is a young artificial communist-created state with boundaries yet to be defined. At the moment Russia is just claiming back the lands which were Russian for centuries. Google Catherine the Great and Russian expansion in the 18th century.
It's the same old thing als always: Bring people into a situation where there is nothing to enforce rules, like when you just won a war and the enemy can't stop you from doing whatever you want, and people will split into two groups: Those who still act morally, and those who will do whatever they can get away with.
the concept of Soviet warfare...
Sadly it seems that those who act morally are in the minority
TRUE. Up to 34 million soldiers served in the Red Army during World War II. Any group of 34 million contains many sex offenders..
@@MaxRoth-mc6nb The Soviet Union lost around 27 million people during the war, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilians. How many people facing this reality would remain with good mental faculties?
@@marcosffontes Stalinists massacred 12 to 14 millions of Ukrainians without any "revenge" aspects long before. They committed similar crimes throughout Eastern Europe and the Eastern Part of Central Europe before Hitler's party had even been founded, and long before they received massive support for their crimes through Lend Lease Program from Canada and the USA .
He looks like he is truly recalling in horror.
I think hes lying to himself. At 1:50 he puts his hand on his head to believe he wasnt part of it
What an horrific story. The message to me is that we all have a choice where our hate can take us and some of us have heart and soul.
Americans were the same. Top U.S. military commanders knowing how sex starved, perverted their men are, told the troops just before D-Day, French women, and others would be so happy they liberated them from the Germans, sex would be the reward. So, over 40,000 women were raped during the American death and destruction rampage across Europe. It is said, one million were raped during the Vietnam War. What the world saw in Irag, Afghanistan was just a small taste of what Americans are really like. Most atrocities of theirs are quickly covered up, to keep the false, spreading liberty, democracy propaganda alive.
If the events in come and see happened to me if I was a Belarusian, then id probably be all for getting revenge on germany since the germans also commited genocide on all russian people. Not just the jews
The Soviet army is the dirty animals of Marxism-multiculturalism that destroyed Europe. NO FORGIVENESS FOR THEM!
THey weren't Russian oh goodness, they were the Mongolian regiment, the Russians actually tried to stop it by shooting at their own soldiers but the Mongolian regiment wore Russian uniform this the confusion, and this is why 80% of Germans of today look 90% Mongolian and nothing like Russians or Germans of world war 2.
The Americans assaulted so vastly that no women in Germany between the age of 8-60 were safe from them , the Americans later made their own wives wear a band so they wouldn't get confused as a German woman and get assaulted, it is said that approximately 1-5 million children were born to German women form Americans .soldiers including almost half a million from the back soldiers . 😢😢😢
Nope. You either define choice here properly or just nope
Kudos to this eyewitness soldier who tells us what really happened. God's judgement will fall hard on the monsters who committed these crimes against the innocent victims of war. Count on it.
Words fail to convey the atrocities these creatures made. They punished the innocent people .
Nothing happend to these monsters and there were no judgment. If there is sutch a thing as a God, he clearly seem to be good with all type of evil things. The same way animals protect themselfs from that Who wants to hurt them, so must humans. Never relay on anyone else's protection.
@@Ken-MortenLuke 16:29-3
If your god exists, he's in no position to judge. In fact, he's as guilty as the perpetrators because...a) having had knowledge of what was going to happen, he did nothing to prevent it when he could have, and b) simply allowed it to proceed while he watched on without intervening to protect the innocent victims. By his calculated indifference, he has facilitated every murder, every rape, every crime of violence committed by one human being against another throughout man's history. The simple explanation is - this god does not exist.
@@ToddBrittain1963not necessarily some see our place on earth as simply a place of judgment god will not intervene but will judge when our time comes .
The mistake non believers have is to assume life on earth is the be all of everything when to believers its simply a transition..
Not saying your wrong but I'd be more open minded
None of us know for sure
"Death defying mutilated armies scatter the earth, crawling out of dirty holes their morals disappear." Jon Anderson 1969. I often wondered what this line meant. Now I know. In a war people's morals disappear.
Something similar to Nietzsches line "when battling monsters one lest take care or or he to will become a monster"
Hope those girls found their brother and mother in Heaven.
Heaven isn't real
Amazing to me that humans can hear these atrocious accounts of torture and murder and still believe there is an all powerful and benevolent god in the sky who runs a fancy divine hotel for the deceased. Mental illness.
Oh for fucks sake. How in the hell (pun intended) did your shit box god let that happen to those girls. The delusion of you religious nuts knows no bounds.
@@jnolette1030 It is real. Jesus said it’s real. John 14:6
God was on a break that day !
This poor man has to literally hold his head together with those horrific memories and pictures....
When will mankind learn?!
Now we enter another era of wars 😢
Every generation wants its war. We don't learn anything, every generation just repeats the same mistakes of the past like in a mad men's game.
When was there not an era of wars?
@@MarkoVukovic0 Probably when we were banging rocks and sticks together. And even then I’m not to sure there wasn’t at least some fighting.
@@spacetofu19 Even in those ancient times, tribal warfare, rape and genocide was constant. We also probably contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals.
Humans are flawed, aggressive and territorial creatures. It's in our DNA. We are destined to go extinct by killing each other at some point. Google Fermi Paradox.
That was shame. He is not innocent. His story doesnt make much sense. He encountered these girls and told them to run away which they did. Yet when he went inside he heard screams and went to the window to see them commander ordering 2 lines. How did they not get farther away in the time it took him to go back inside then hear the scream?
Russians have not changed. More people should see this now to understand what is happening in Ukraine.
They were red army not human who ate girls but video been changed they were lower kind of humans been telport. Lower frequency they ate girls. His worden been cut out changed 😮
@@Soundofsilence-j4dyes, but still Russians. They do all these atrocities in Ukraine nowadays.
All straight men eat girls...tf you talking 'bout. The girls love it.
But you joined the german when the entered ukraine
There were Nazi collaborators in all countries occupied by them during WW2 -- a lot more in places like France than Ukraine. @@peterchapman3740
'In which everyone took part'...Revealing sentence.
Assuming everyone means literally every single one.
I noticed that too. I also noticed that he started laughing after describing the first rapes and that even the female telephoners laughed.
@@crystalbluepersuasion1027 I would like to think it was nervous laughter or shock laughter.
He partook in the rape of those girls. Pretty sick really, especially if you’re not the first bloke to be banging them. If you’re the last, you’re basically covering your schmeckle with other men’s mangoo which makes you a finork.
@@BlackWhite-tx2kbgood point he's had to carry alot I doubt he as well as others didn't participate. And got shit for it . Just saying .
Same thing happened when the French "liberated" southern Italy. They let the North Africans do what they wanted for a day.
Comments below are correct . The horrors of War pushes people to levels of depravity few could imagine May god rest the souls of the victims.
Thats no excuse.
We have war. There is no god.
@@mattfisher4798 *"We have war. There is no god."* What are you ? 8 yo ?
@@shilombaba clearly you're another willful idiot that is now getting to finally become a minority, thank science, logic and critical thought, (the 3 things you willful idiots universally reject, with hate in your hearts, like most anything progressive)
Whatever needs justifying, just use your Sky daddy mental gymnastics.
Even an unindoctrinated 8 year old can point it out, if they're allowed to...
Religion pushes war, atrocities,that only hate through stout belief can reek upon humanity, as history has repeatedly demonstrated, since before the time our ape species figured how to make distinctive and uniform markings in clay tablets.
If everything is according to that asshole,or assholes(I don't discriminate willful stupidity, since its all stupid), I choose nothing to do with it, yet the willful idiots of the globe refuse to let that peace be.
Give me solid proof that all the goat herders of millenia ago, who had absolutely zero clue where even the sun goes at night, and would put one to death for even daring to contradict them, that they absolutely got everything right.
You can't.
It doesn't exist, it's a social disease that's been dangerous to thinking and logic from the beginning of time.
Tell a wilful idiot there's a sky daddy watching everything they do, they believe it, no questions asked. Put a wet paint sign on wet paint and they have to touch it to believe the sign.
God is man made, to go hand in hand with war and atrocities to be justified.
In which case, God ain't resting shit, it's full on war, pillage rape and slavery, world-wide, non-stop terror driven by religion, hand in hand with corporate greed.
God's plan, indeed.
As there are absolute proofs to the entire willful idiocy, world-wide, that you willful idiots never fail to demonstrate:
God is a broke, angry and violent snowflake, with a jumpy trigger finger.
I guess after all the unchecked rape, murdering and incest, one tends to become like that....
@@mattfisher4798 God didn't invent wars, humans did.
my grandpa always said according to my fathers statement "the last bullet is for me, before getting imprisoned by the Russian army". Grandpa died on his way back to Germany in April 45 not making his way home. 2 weeks later war was over.
Read The Forgotten Soldier or Sniper on the Eastern Front
Soviet Union in a nutshell. And the country doesn’t acknowledge it.
How naive can anyone be - this behaviour is fairly normal in warfare, and almost every nationality is guilty of it, please check the facts before assuming one country is worse than others.
@@samolevski1119show proof.
and yet wellington was hanging his own soldiers in the penisular war to stop it, the Russias just looked on and laughed@@samolevski1119
It's not normal at all . Nazis didn't do this Aryans don't do this . Animals do . @@samolevski1119
@@Iidentifyascorrect
How naive can anyone be - you honestly think the German soldiers didn't rape anyone 😂
In Erich Hartmann's book, "The Blonde Knight," he described witnessing the mass rape of German women and girls by Russian soldiers. This was when the Americans handed him, his unit, and several civilians over to the Red Army.
I have heard the Eisenhower regretted giving Berlin to the Red Army. He alone could have prevented this aftermath of Germanys’ surrender.
No, but schizo post some more you mentally handicapped mong. @Unbelieveablebutithappened
@@mariahewitt1841 I think u are thinking of Patton
Eisenhower was a disgrace. I guess he was ashamed of his German name. History hides facts, but that “war hero” was no better than Hitler.
@@mariahewitt1841 I disagree
There was much going on strategically which prevented the US/UK from reaching Berlin.
Primarily because they chose to go south to Bavaria...
Horrible, horrible, horrible human beings...
@@whow486 I think you didn't listen the whole video. He also talked about women telephonists' behaviours. Don't be such a feminazi please.
Ordinary, ordinary, ordinary human beings who allow themselves to be brainwashed and led by horrible human beings.
@@SeventhSaucerlol "allowed"
@@joeywheelerii9136 "lol" yourself. This kind of thing is very much in the present.
@@SeventhSaucerprecisely. This is the future of America under the LGBT regime
I have heard similar stories from the people who were there, several times.
Humankind is capable of everything, only a very-very few like this man, has decency and moral so engrained into them they will not participate.
At the end he did say 'everyone took part' and he laughed when he recalled the female telephonists laughing. Make of that what you wish.
@@goldeagle8051 His laugh was not a laugh of fun and excitement, but in despair of how people are.
According to him.
There are a lot of people hating on Russian people in the comments, calling all Russians animals. Somehow the Russians are subhuman in the minds of the hateful rhetorists like some people in the comments.
Well, let me tell you this. The Nazi soldiers burned the entire village of my Ukrainian ancestors in the early stages of WW2. The sister of my grandfather vividly remembered invading soldiers throwing a Molotov cocktail into a house where she lived as a little girl.
The father of my grandfather (a Ukrainian serving in the Soviet Army) died defending Kiev. My grandfather, was adopted by a Russian man, who was a firefighter, and was extinguishing fires in Kiev and Eastern Ukraine. My grandfather was rejoiced to see how kind and selfless his Russian adoptive father was. So, was my grandfather's adoptive father also just a savage animal by your logic just because he was Russian???
So, for anyone whose mind is boiling from bigotry. If you were able to read at least to this point, you at least value intellectual honesty, so please remember. By painting all the people of one nationality as the same, you are just feeding a hateful narrative that will bring only more suffering in the future.
The only thing I hope is that you will not spread hatred anymore, be it hatred against Jews, Germans, Russians, Ukrainians, Arabs, French, American, any other nationality. There are tons of bad people and there are tons of great people born in every place on this Earth, period.
In fact, it is dangerous to generalize, but some cultures have differences or more common behaviors, the Soviets were at the same level or worse than the Germans most of the time, whether due to cultural reasons or the nature of the regime.
But each human being is unique and even in the middle of an invading army, not everyone wanted to be there or agree with what others were doing.
@@M1sc3and who was different than Germans? You seem to be an expert on cultural differences of the time...please, share....
@@M1sc3Germans were at least 10 worster than Russians in WW2 lol
The Germans killed over 19 Million Soviet civilians !!
In Belarus alone over 10.000 villages got annihilated and entire families got burned alive including children !!
@@M1sc3The Germans were easy 10 times worster than the Soviets lol
So nothing has changed with these Russian soldiers carrying on the tradition in Ukraine...
Or Ukrainian rapists
Believe me : thé Ukrainiens did thé same to Poland with thé back up of Russians!!!
But Poland is strong and forgives and helps thé Ukrainiens….
So step further if not bipolar judgments like ‘thé good / thé evil ´ Will never end and neither wars !
Ukrainians were in the Soviet army too😂
stupid BS... it is not nations that forgive or rape... but soldiers and criminals@@pegipeg141
a large portion wouldve been ukranian soldiers in the soviet army.... learn some history
No one escapes the evil he does onto even the tiniest of creatures. Once you leave the body, unprotected by the (false) barriers of the mind, the impact of what you did to others will devastate your soul thousands of time more than you can experience on this plane of existance. The only true choice is either wake up to who you truly are, or endlessly fall back into suffering.
After they gave East Prussia to the USSR, my grandmother-in-law walked 800 miles to Bavaria with two children and a baby, along way she was raped 17 times by Allied troops and buried two of the three children. The baby survived and became my father-in-law.
Russians, not allied. Communists!
That's your take from his story????@@roddeazevedo
You are correct but most went to Russia, and many of the Polish who rushed in killed MANY Germans. They were understandably angry. There were many reasons the civilians had minutes to hours to flee. @@roddeazevedo
the people were still evicted@@roddeazevedo
That's horrific ffs !
End the narcissism, the drugs and the self-aggrandisation and pray, pray, pray.
It's interesting how people always blame The US/UK for warcrimes and colonialism. But this kind of barbarism RARELY happened.
I mean think rationally: Would you rather be occupied by russians or Americans?
Neather becouse Americans did the same, 😂 bruh look up the Rheinwiesenlager and how many Woman and Children American Soldiers killed, you are no different from Germany to Vietnam to Afghanistan, you are all the same not to mention the vile Morgentau plan, that Rosevelt signed were he planned to kill 30 million German Civillians.
3:53 it’s so sick that you can’t imagine people can do this
my father was a marine sergeant in the vietnam war and he told us very little when he was back home,
but he did say ''Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see ''
It's always possible that the man in this video is partially lying . No doubt horrible things happened . But one never knows
Napoleon is quoted as saying ''War is a fable agreed upon '
This story was sickening but important. Also, as horrible and painful as it is, one has to realize that many present-day Russian soldiers are just as bad as their predecessors in World War Two. Think of what Russian soldiers have done to Ukrainian women. It's just a s bad as what they did to German women back in the 1940's.
Glad this has come out & all to often suppressed by the media. My father, who was too young to volunteer for active duty told me of the unspeakable horrors Russia committed against the German civilian population and POW's alike - all conveniently SUPRESSED!.
Russian Solders bad in WWII? American Troops raped between 250,000 and 700,000 German Women. There was so much rape committed in Japan by US Troops, that the United States ran out of penicillin, that President Truman tried to put a stop to it. Not for the benefit of the foreign women being raped, after all, they were 'subhuman', but for the poor Americans back home suffering thru the shortage. All this done by the "The Greatest Generation". Odd, huh?
German soldiers burned the entire village where my ancestors lived in Ukraine . The sister of my grandfather vividly remembered German soldiers throwing a Molotov cocktail into a house where she lived as a little girl.
The father of my grandfather was a Ukrainian, and he also was a soldier that joined the Red Army, and he died defending Kiev. My grandfather was adopted by a Russian man, who was a firefighter, and was extinguishing fires in Kiev.
So, your attempt to portray all the Russian soldiers as monsters is futile. You are just feeding a hateful narrative that will bring only more suffering in the future, and yet you are happy to do it. The only thing I hope is that you will not spread hatred anymore.
Its indeed very sad but it was a soviet revenge for German attrocities across the whole Soviet union.The Russians wanted revenge.
@@martinkubis4470 Just wondering, what did the US Troops want that justified the rape of hundreds of thousands of German women, and the extermination of over 1 million Germans in a US run Concentration Camp, with over half of the 1 million dead being women and children?
The treatment of women in both sides was horrendous. The Germans were terrified of the Russian invasion, because the Germans had been so brutal when they occupied Russia. Soviet women soldiers who were captured, were summarily shot.
Le communisme , que c’est beau ! Je connaissais Pol Pot , mais lá, c’est du même niveau . On comprend pourquoi Churchill avait dit en parlant de la victoire sur les Nazis : " Je crois que l’on n’a pas tué le bon cochon" Il avait compris que les communistes Russes ne valaient pas mieux , voire étaient pire que les Nazis!
BONJOURS MONSIEUR, DU CANADA IL Y A UN LIVRE Q'UNE DAME ALLEMANDE A ÉCRIT ET IL A ÉTÉ DISTRIBUÉ SEULEMENT APRÈS LA MORT DE L'ÉCRIVAINE, SON LIBRE----A WOMEN IN BERLIN-- LES ALLIÉS ONT LAISSÉ UN RÉGIMENT DE NOIRS EN FRANCE ET ILS ONT VIOLÉ TOUT CE QUI BOUGEAIENT AINSI QUE LES FRANÇAIS EN ITALIE ONT FAIT PAREIL. QUAND LES ALLEMANDS ONT ÉCRIENT À LEUR FEMMES,ILS ONT INDIQUÉ QUE LES FEMMES À PARIS SE MAQUILLAIENT ET S'HABILLAIENT COME NO PROSTITUÉE EN ALLEMAGNE
In eastern europe we’ve been warning about this for years. People in the west have no idea what Russia really is. Soon we will hear more stories like this from Ukraine.
But only after the News stops emphasizing Gaza and the Hamas/ Israel war !!!
Baloney.
Already do hear stories.like this. A little more than a year old.
Assuming that a huge part of eastern europe back then was under ussr and took part in red army, be careful, maybe some of these rapists were not so far from you.
don't be stupid ww2 was 80 years ago. Modern russians are the great great grand children of the russians who did these atrocities. Over all that time russian society has changed a huge amount. Modern russians are christian and don't live in the absolute hell hole that was the soviet union.
This man still has his nightmare and shares the horror of what he witnesses makes it a little easier for him to continue living with it
what always kinda stuck with me was at 2:12 he mentions how it was the fall of Carthage. It show or implies he was an educated man compared to his comrades. His eyes he has seen things and heard things.
But he also laughs after describing the first lot of rapes.. innocent man I think not
@scottmitchell6344 : Many people who have experienced trauma, display inappropriate reactions .You can't make assumptions.
@@mpatey63 Sometimes laughing is a reaction to trauma and fear.
@@scottmitchell6344 laughter has been associated with absurdity.
And also release of trauma from the nervous system. Not unlike a conversion disorder.
People are also exhilarated when they successfully escape from being shot at.
It is very "funny" to get shot at yet one survives fully intact.
Even if there's truly nothing funny about the shooters such as incompetence or dumb decisions.
So that's not exactly humor. It's discharge of absurdity that converts into laughter.
Like when you say you have a "funny" feeling. It's not really that funny is it?
And these were our " allies."
It was revenge for what the Germans did in the Soviet Union !
Japanese soldiers did the same to Chinese and Korean women, too. War is all about conquest, not just the land and governance, but the women. Those who survived the mass rape bore the children of the enemies.
And so did the us soilders and british soldiers
Ilya Ehrenburg would be proud
No je wouldn't - he was urging the "valiant" Soviet army to rape and murder their way across Germany. The Red Army had a crime called "Bourgeoisie Humanitarianism" for officers and men who complained about atrocities - this man would have been found guilty.
@@davidm3118 True and thank you for speaking truth.
Why did he smile when he talked about the 2 girls eaten by the pigs? And he said......"everyone participated".
Disgusting.
All the evil heinous acts by both sides have been dealt with by an eternity in hell…..
Our country was “liberates” by Soviets too. Everyone said they were worse than Germans…
Russians never change and you can see this in Ukraine right now.
Yet, we still think its not “our” war, its far away and we dont help enough. Same like we (Czechoslovakia) were sold to Hitler as West though it will be enough for him… and we know where it all led to 😢
History always repeat.
What Americans did to Vietnam , Japan ,Yugoslavia, Iraq ? Do you know ?
@@natsalta why do you comparing? This video is not about them. I sharing our experiences.
Do you realise that "Russians" back then include Ukrainians too, right?
@@mind-blowing_tumbleweedsome low % yes, but everything was dictated by Stalin. Same about Holodomor in UA by their “brothers”. Russia is evil, always was.
@@jagymeister I live in Vietnam and i was told that american and korean were even worse than this
War and hatred bring out the absolute worst in people. We can't fix what has already happened, but we can strive to prevent it from ever happening again.
Rape by soldiers continues to happen to this day. I have heard hacked phone conversations of Russians soldiers in Ukraine telling their wives/girlfriends about raping Ukrainian women and their partners are actually laughing, and encouraging them!
It’s beyond my comprehension, not only that these animals are rapists but that they are encouraged by their partners. What a sick world we live in!
We are striving to prevent war, but the results are disappointing AF. American women are so holier-than-thou . . . making millions being internet whores, emasculating men, dropping babies like it's a contest,
Ladies and gentlemen, the mighty Red army, Always been this way,will never change.
Exactly.
They are rapists and murderers in Ukraine as well.
They are still what they were back then.
Utterly harrowing. Then they got the Stasi and the KGB.
Yeah I'm sure he's honest and telling the truth. No way did he participate....
Ya everyone except him. He watched from his car and did nothing to stop it. Ya right.
I do believe him actually. The Soviet soldiers who participated rarely agreed to interviews.
@@markmillward9733 - how could he have stopped it when his superior officers approved of it?
@@Achill101 or because he participated? Stalin would have laughed it off anyway. The bolsheviks' red army had a policy of murdering "the blond witch". Any army that murders unarmed men, women, and children is an army of Cowards.
Kind of worse to have played the coward.
I’m glad he shared his experiences, even when they might be… hard to share.
It’s unlikely we’ll ever see justice for those crimes because of A: how long it’s been since the incident occurred and B: it was widely seen as acceptable behavior because of what the Germans did to the Polish. The Germans, throughout the war, were expanding their territory east into Poland and the polish that lived there were raped and killed and forced from their homes. Russian forces sweeping across Poland were becoming all too familiar with German death/work camps. Keeping those atrocities in mind just fueled the allied forces to commit atrocities of their own.
NOTHING like Germany; utterly retarded comparison.
Such a big paragraph just to say "Its the Germans fault"?
Almost no one knows this, the German soldiers were the good men.
Yeah, you definitely don’t hear that the Germans were actually the good guys. Never, actually.
Right because the concentration camps were completely innocuous?
Exactly
I won’t say the German soldiers were good men but discipline was very strong in the German army of WWll.
Lmao. Germans did much worse, in much higher numbers. And not only the SS, wehrmacht actively participated. It's now an historical consensus
By this stage of the war both sides were completely insane.
This is the real truth of humanity. These kinds of atrocities are going on for thousands of years all around the globe. Women always become the ultimate target and suffer the most in all the wars everywhere...
The shocking barbaric reality of war even within living memory...
this happened yesterday, and the day before too. every war. every time. every side
Horrifying.
Even if the females had been SS guards, they should not have had to endure rape. For the poor ethnic German girls involved, this is a crime against humanity. I'm sorry they had to suffer this, even if, had their Nazi leaders had proved victorius, a million plus a million women would have suffered even more humiliation and cruelty.
What a horrible way to die ..poor little souls 😢 😭
Why did they never make a Hollywood movie about this?
Who rules the Hollywod?
Hollywood is full of commies. They hate making movies that makes commies look bad.
What savagery people inflict on each other .
When spirituality is removed from man's heart, this is what happens
NOTHING in the world has done more atrocitys then "spiritual men"! get your history straight!
It’s called a war crime.
There weren't a lot of "nice guys" in this horrible war. Some were worse than others.
This sounds like the apex of horror.
Oh no it's definitely not.
The Japanese cut open preteen girl's vagina's to "further open them up" before raping them.
And they killed babies with a bayonet.
War is uglier than hell. At least in hell there are no innocents.
My god that is such a horrible story, it will always amaze me that it was less then 100 years ago that we did this at a large scale
Um.. this is happening right now. Nothing has changed wake up.
Look up "Olga Bykovskaya" if you don't believe.
Stalin not Hitler was the most feared Big Bad Wolf of WW2.
There is a similar video (probably more than one) of an Allied officer describing a similar attack on 2 young German girls who were hoping for help and safety - they didn't get shot but died from the fact that the Allied soldiers (I forget their nationality) didn't stop until they were dead.
The rape of Nanking by Japanese soldiers is self explanatory and well documented, with Japanese newspapers gleefully printing about it.
I suppose if you turn people into killing machines and put them into a situation where they can be attacked at almost any time, have seen comrades die or be injured, then previous normal behaviour becomes a distant memory, and is replaced with some type of primitive savage 'normality'
Difference is the allied soldiers did this rarely, as a crime, in secret. Russians did this en masse in full view of their officers. It was essentially a USSR state policy.
Probably the grimmest thing i have ever heard,
I remember at the beginning of the 2000s, I watched the “military affairs” program. There, one Red Army veteran said that when they liberated the territory of the USSR, they walked along the streets of one city. And one little boy came up to them, he was wearing a German officer's cap. He said that he was German, then they got angry and shot him. After what the Germans did on the territory of the USSR. Their hatred of the Germans was very strong. They were imbued with anger and cruelty. So their behavior in Germany does not surprise me at all. Although this is of course a crime!
Not really, i think barbarism was and is still very strong in the russian population, especially after they had be dehumanized by the Communists. You could also see it in todays Ukraine war.
@@Freigeist2008 I assume that you have never been to Russia. The Americans also committed many war crimes in Vietnam, Iraq, etc. But I don't call them barbarians. But Russian troops do not commit such barbarity as the Nazis or the Japanese in World War III. It is not good to label an entire nation based on tendentious news from the Western media!
disgusting how they programmed you. all sides rape and plunder every time@@Freigeist2008
The Russians were as bad or worse than the nazis and Japanese. dont kid yourselves@@АнтонКуко
@@Freigeist2008 It exists in literally *every* single population. We are all animals in the end which means we have mostly the same possibility of becoming a beast whenever a situation is extreme enough. I hope that you never go though what these people did. Our current societies are very fragile mentally and I believe with the constant banning/censoring of historical events, books and even whole religions worldwide we may quite soon see a very dark period coming for us as well.
And who says Russia can not be conquered? Think again. Its Simple Mathematics for Russia to be Conquered.
Harder than it sounds. In 1612, an invading Polish army was massacred. In 1709, Charles the 7th of Sweden led an army into Russia, and was beaten and booted out. Even the mighty Napoleon failed miserably in Russia. As did Hitler and his powerful German army. Not to mention during Russia's civil war, 1918 - 1920, French, British, and even American soldiers intervened to help the 'White Russian' resistance fight the Red Army under Lenin's Bolsheviks. But it failed, there were too many Red soldiers, and the Soviet Union was created. The Soviet Union did eventually fall apart, though mostly from within. It may be the same with Russia today. A takeover of Russia would most likely require a gigantic invasion with many nations participating, but the trouble with that is other countries would likely also move to support Russia, provoking a massive, possible world war. And nuclear weapons might be used by somebody if it escalated enough. More should be done to get Russia out of Ukraine, I believe that, but Russia itself needs to deal with itself, and just maybe, will fall, like the Soviet system before it, but this time turn into something better, less aggressive, and more productive and peaceful. I'm sure a lot of ordinary Russian citizens would agree.
@@marioneno Yes, it's always hard and still is. It was Charles the 12th though, VII means 7 while XII means 12. (nitpick)
No way. It’s way to big
The question is 'why conquer Russia?'. It's like Afghanistan - ungovernable because of the populace.
Sometimes reality is worse than fiction
The notion that the Soviets were the "good guys" is the fiction. They were obviously just as bad as the Nazis.
It is the stuff of nightmares
Despicable treatment of German women civilians; extremely disturbing information.
War is ugly, especially for citizens who’s country is at war.
Well, one more reason to own firearm.
As a felow german, i will never forgive the russian soldiers for what they did to the women and all others after they "Liberated" berlin and germany itsef. On the contrary this man looked to be a decent soul.
So why do you forgive america and brittain? They bombed dresden
WHAT ABOUT GERMANS DID TO RUSSIAN WOMEN???
I'm sorry, mein freund, but you are not in the position to forgive here. Every Soviet and Russian child grew up knowing what the Germans did: burnt whole villages alive, experimented on children, gassed, burnt millions of people. Thank God that today people can visit former extermination camps and see what the Nazis used to do to people. Forgiveness is the luxury you can't afford.
Red army is trash, the Wehrmaht is no different, so dont be so entitled, your side attacked first. Only difference is the mass rape on the soviet side and the mass killing of jews and war captives on the nazis part
@@myvictory8294 And sadly not everyone grows up knowing what the soviets and USA. This is why videos like this are important.
We fought the wrong enemy - George S. Patton
The obscenity of war.
All the horrors of world war 2 because of prejudice, hatred and that house painter.
This is why war is hell
This makes me sick… These “Allies” are no better than the Nazis. Some American soldiers did the same in Vietnam.
Such an inhuman act by the soviet
Study how the soviets sufferred at the hands of the Germans prior to understand.
@@wsxfafoxws You unintentionally exposed yourself to be of exactly the same type as the childraping Soviets. The amount of irony is incredible, but you probably don't understand what that means. Those corpse eating pigs are of more value to the world then you are.
@@wsxfafoxws One side's crimes don't excuse another's, idiot.
@@adrianfewster8391 One side's crimes don't excuse another's, idiot.
I have read that this is not uncommon in war@@wsxfafoxws
Let’s not forget the Germans killed 20 million Russians. Our own USArmy had My Lai and numerous other atrocities. #1 rule of war : dehumanize the other side. Once you have done that, all atrocities are possible. All wars are terrible. Greetings and wishes of good health to all from Orange County, California.
Germans did it on the battlefield, this is why General Patton wanted to invade Russia.
That doesn't excuse what the soldiers did to those girls
If you went to school in California, you should know that no one could possibly "forget" about Nazi war crimes, considering we were beaten over the head with that information in every high school history class. So that whataboutism was really unnecessary. We never learned about what the Soviets did to the women of Germany.
Blame the governments .. look what ours is doing right now. . This is one story it happened but thanks anyway
They do not equate. American soldiers who engaged war crimes and were caught were punished, not encouraged. guess you missed it.
Military with medieval values that it embodies to today.
Every Germans at that time knew what was coming because of what they did to the soviets. If you invade a country and treated them as animals but somehow the situation got reversed you know what is coming.
Is this a justification ? Did the little girls invaded poland ?
@AB-uw3os : I, too, find it upsetting when bedrock principles become elastic if they suit someone's short-term goals. I find realpolitik based on such moral flexibility disgusting, even though it was so common in the West during and after WW2. For example, before helping Russia fight Germany during WW2, how could we forget that WW2 was started as a premeditated act with Russia joining Nazi Germany in attacking and then dividing Poland (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)? The West helping Russia fight Germany is an example of practiced realpolitik. This is one time when I probably would have done the same if in the position of power, simply because the threat and the costs were so great. The problem with this approach is that my assessment of the cost being high enough to justify an unprincipled policy may differ greatly from whoever makes decisions at any given time. This is the problem with democracy and democratic politicians for whom popular opinions, which often do not tolerate any cost, are the justification for realpolitik. This is what all authoritarians, including Putin, count on.
Now, on the difference between Ukrainian and Russian cultures. You may or may not know, but your view that there is no difference between them is, in fact, Russian propaganda. Just look at Putin's drivel that ideologically underpins Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine: en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181.
Reality cannot be further from the truth. Let's start with the language (you misspelled the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv). Putin and the Russian world see the Ukrainian language as the dialect of Russian but Serbian and Bolgarian as separate languages. The reality is that Ukrainainn is further away from Russian than either of those languages and is the closest to Belarusian and Polish (www.openculture.com/2017/08/a-colorful-map-visualizes-the-lexical-distances-between-europes-languages.html). Judge for yourself from this example: preply.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Ukrainian-language-difference-7-copy.jpg. To close this topic, Ukrainian has more words in its dictionary (at least 260K) than Russian has (~200K). Most scholars agree that the older the language, the more words it has.
Now consider the culture. Russian culture is, in fact, Asian and is directly traced to the Golden Horde and further to the Mongol Empire. For example, revered Russian historical figure and Orthodox Saint Alexander Nevsky is, in fact, a Goden Horde vassal fighting European powers (photos.com/featured/prince-alexander-nevsky-begging-batu-heritage-images.html?product=canvas-print). For centuries and now Russian culture is based on the fear of punishment, not right and wrong. This cultural trait is directly traceable to Genghis Khan's view of extreme terror that would deter anyone from harming a beautiful woman traveling across his empire. Pragmatically, Russians believe that a strong state is essential to rule Russia, the last remaining land empire.
Let's look at a more recent past. When a Ukrainian serf, Taras Shevchenko, essential to understanding modern Ukranais ethnos, was writing, "Keep fighting - you are sure to win! God helps you in your fight! For fame and freedom march with you, And right is on your side!," the great Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev was admitting that "Russian people are lazy and slow, and not accustomed to thinking independently, nor acting consistently."
Today, look at the national anthems of the two countries. Ukrainians sing, hand on the heart, that "Soul and body shall we lay down for our freedom." Russians glorify "Russia is our sacred state" and "We are given strength by our fidelity to the Fatherland."
Ukrainians have had two revolutions in the last 20 years, fighting for their freedom and the right to choose their future (if you have not yet seen Winter on Fire, you ought to if you want to understand the difference between the two cultures, not nationalities: ruclips.net/video/yzNxLzFfR5w/видео.html). At the same time, Russians are obediently reelecting Putin because he restored Russia's "greatness," which makes them feel good.
The world has, indeed, changed a lot since 1945. But not the Russian world: war.ukraine.ua/russia-war-crimes/, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine. I can give you individual examples if you can stomach them. For example, the execution of a prisoner of war who was forced to dig his own grave and executed as we were saying Slava Ukraini (Glory to Ukraine): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Oleksandr_Matsievskyi, war.obozrevatel.com/zastavili-kopat-sebe-mogilu-v-seti-obratili-vnimanie-na-zhutkie-detali-s-rasstrelom-okkupantami-ukrainskogo-voina.htm. Or castration and murder of another Ukrainian POW (caution, this is genuinely horrific Russian barbarism): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_and_castration_of_a_Ukrainian_POW_in_Pryvillia.
The Russian world never changes and will only end if we help the Ukranians defeat this truly evil empire. If not, we will be fighting it ourselves in the not-too-distant future.
Wolin massacre. Could you supply us with some details, please? Which Polish children did the Ukrainians nail by the tongue to the barn doors and which did they wrap in hay and lit them to run burning to their deaths? How did the Ukrainians choose the manner in which to murder the hundreds of thousands of Poles and Jews? You could put here the exact instructions of the Ukrainian national heroes and rapists and child murderers.
Grand children of those Soviets are doing same thing in Ukraine.
War Crimes and Stalin was responsible.
I don’t trust this guys innocence
Nor we yours ...
One decent guy in the whole Soviet army........😔
I don't care what anyone thinks. The Soviets were the most vile of all. As they proved during the cold War. They were more ruthless and cruel.
EVIL
No military is perfect and all have committed sins, but the Soviet/Russian Army has a history of acts like this. Their lack of professionalism continues on to this day.
The Americans did it too. My elderly German friend was 8 when the war ended . Her father slaughtered a cow and traded with Russians to get her , her mother and her sister to an American refugee camp. They hid under blankets in the back of a truck to the border and just lifted the wire to cross at that time. In the American camp , they would hear German women screaming as American soldiers raped them at night. She just told me this story. “ everyone knew what it was… why they were screaming .”
Leonid mackintosh describes Russia as like Europe except cruder and more brutal...misery, sadism humiliation, sexual assault is woven into the fabric of their society a hang over from the gulag days where millions of Russians were sent and where that behaviour was common place.
“…In which everyone took part… except me. I was an angel”
Tbf….he never denied it, not even once.
@@fartemisfartmallow8647 pretty sure he said he sat in the vehicle… I’d have to go back through and re watch
Get your facts straight before assuming. The subs gave a wrong translation, he said " pochti pogolovno" which in Russian means "nearly everyone". Those who were raping, they would deny it. Those who were against it, they speak up. With a hypocritical Russian authorities denying the very fact that the rapes took place.
@@kurbanovmfirst of all, I’m not assuming, what he said, I was going directly off the translation. And from what I can tell “pochti pogolovno” can also be translated to “almost all the time”
So the translation is contextual and ambiguous at best.
Finally, this piece of shit participated in the rape and murder of innocent civilians, either directly or by standing by and watching. Feral dog that he is.
At 1.47 time he laughs. Jeez…. Also at 6.10 time when he talks about only the skulls were left, he also smiles. While it’s good to document these atrocities, it’s disgusting to see his expressions.
Subtitles are not word-for-word; they only capture the jist of his description. The part you noted starts with him saying that Russian female phone operators were laughing while watching the mass rape of German women and children. He then says they (operators) were also vulgar (using swear words excessively). And as he recalls that, he cackles.
Laughing is also a symptom of stress.
Exactly ! Stress and trauma can produce inappropriate reactions
Al the reason more to support Ukraine... Russians now a days aren't much better...
Just goes to show, in a war there is no good or bad side, they are all the same. And the disgraceful stupidity when the church prays to bless their side’s weapons is truly disgusting
War is just bad on all sides. The devil works hard. I’m glad to hear all sides of a war. There is empathy to be shown on all sides. Devastating to hear though. I sometimes think I want to hear but then I mentally block the information past a certain point. The details I can’t bear.
Absolutely shocking!
And now Hamas terrorists did exactly same crimes against women than soviets & nazis. Extreme ideologies have some things in common.
I imagine that Major Andrianov found his way to some hell or another, and I believe being in a hellish moment beyond my understanding led to the collective mindset in the other rapists. One of my favorite Americans, an inspiration to me, said that war is all hell. I wish this story was absolutely unique in my forty plus years of study of Eastern Front operations; it isn't. I hope the telling if this brought the former platoon leader peace, and that the participants sought and found forgiveness. I believe the victims, being children, were with Jesus in the moment after their deaths, and beyond the cruelties this world provides. Whether one commits such crimes or only knows of them, ours is a difficult, if not impossible place to find peace, and so after I write this, I will pray that we all find peace here,and beyond this world. Bog c Nami vshegda!
Russians never change
Ukrainians too
Yeah mean Germans