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Dear Andrey
I am a german guy from Berlin and I will tell you a short story about the first days of soviet liberation/occupation (put the word you prefer) in April/May 1945 in Berlin.
My Grandpas with my father lived in Südwestkorso in Berlin Wilmersdorf. The day the soviet army took over in the area my family hides with the other neighbours in the cellars of the 4store-building they lived in. After a while a soviet soldier opened the door , looked in and saw the civilians. Came in to look better if some Wehrmacht soldier was inside , but there was none. On the way out he looked at my father (13year old that time) and saw his wristwatch. Asked for it politely (as politely one can be in this situation with a gun in his hands) , and got it. This was the only moment of “pillage” my father could give a testimony. The soldier told the people they could go back to their homes because in our street was no more fighting. So they did.
After two days or so , waiting at home , my grandpa decided that he has to put again normal life to work and decided to look at the situation at his workplace. My grandpa was a chef de cuisine and has all his personal tools (knifes etc) at his workplace and wanted to find out what was left of his workplace. Schöneberger Ratsstuben , a hotel with restaurant. So he took the bicycle and under the harsh protests of my grandma which feared that her husband will be shot at by the first soldier he encountered , he went on. (My grandpa survived both worldwars as soldier , so he was not the Hurrah-hero , but he either was not a coward) When he arrived at his workplace he saw that everything was fine and standing upright , only with the detail that a soviet soldier was at the entrance as a guard. As my grandpa has fought in WW1 at the eastern front he had learned rudimantary russian to make himself understand. He explained to the guard who he was and that he wants to recover his personal stuff from the kitchen. The guard asked a superior rank and gave permission. So my grandpa went to the kitchen to take his stuff. Standing in the kitchen a soviet officer of higher rank came in and asked my Grandpa who he was. When the officer heard that my Grandpa was a chef de cuisine (Küchenmeister) he asked to tell him his professional CV. My grandpa told him , apprentice of Escoffier in Paris 1914 , Hotel Eden in Berlin , Parkhotel Renner in Baden Baden , cook of a hospital train from 1940-1941 , Horcher in Berlin till 1944 , than Schöneberger Ratsstuben. The soviet officer told my grandpa to wait and came back with his highest ranking superior officer available. My Granpa repeated the CV and the officer asked him : “do you want a job ? Same place but russian clients.” My Grandpa said “Yes Sir” and was told , to leave his stuff in place and come back next day in the morning. So my Grandpa got a job as cook for the soviet HQ in Berlin before may 8th.
I have still the soviet “passport” they gave him to move all over Berlin without harm or harrasment.
Two months later the western allies came to Berlin and the soviet HQ was transferred to the soviet sector at the east. They asked him to come with him , but my Grandpa denied because the trip to the new HQ was a lot more time-consuming on bike (Public transport didn´t work so good yet in Berlin) .
The next workplace was the british HQ , and after that the american HQ.
So my family had something to put in the belly in those difficult times , because of the profession of my grandpa.
Thank you for the story Stephan!
nice story, thanks
Hi Stefan, one good story deserves another.
My Russian mother, grandmother and great grandmother were taken by the Germans from Kharkov to Germany as forced labour just before the second liberation of Kharkov in August 1943. They were taken to a labour camp near Kracow initially, and then as the Red Army advanced eventually to Bamberg in Bavaria where they resided in a camp until the American forces liberated the area in March 1945.
My grandmother found work at a restaurant “Drei Konnen”, and the owner was very kind and allowed her to take leftover food back to feed her family in what was now the Displaced person’s camp. This made the difference between them going hungry and having a decent meal.
In 1949 they were resettled in Australia where I was born in 1960.
All three women have of course since died, but I discovered my mother’s diary she kept during the war and internment in Germany, which is how I learned the story of the Drie Konnen. I decided to contact the current owner a few years ago, and found there is still a hotel Drie Konnen in Burgunstadt which is not far from the location of the campo north of Bamberg.
I emailed the hotel, asking whether they had been open during the war and whether they had a restaurant then, and any employment records to see if indeed this was where my grandmother had worked.
The owner was very nice, and confirmed his homily had owned the hotel since the 1920s, and indeed it had a restaurant in 1945. Unfortunately he had no records of employees firman that time, but thought it was likely my grandmother had worked there.
I suspect he was just being nice to me and trying to make me feel better, but I was very grateful for his kindness.
Thank you! Yours and His stories and histories have made my day! Cheers.
July 27th, this and that updated:
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/06/50-years-ago-today-exiled-in-mobile.html
Moscow’s retaliation for Kaliningrad transit ban could pull plug on Lithuania — Medvedev
Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council noted that “the EU didn’t even insist” on such radical steps as a transit ban, realizing the possible problems.
To conclude all this might end up making us realize that the Chinese + Russian economies combined are in fact far larger than those of the West.
Maybe as much as 40% larger if we assume US + EU is in fact maybe just 25% of the world’s economy vs 35% for China + Russia 😮
BREAKING:
Any attempt to encroach on Crimea will lead to a declaration of war on Russia, If a NATO country does this, WWIII will begin. – Dmitry Medvedev.
They will drag NATO/EU to a direct war with Russia.
False Flag:
“Terrorist Act”: Zelensky Lashes Out At Russia After Attack On Ukraine Mall
Russian Attack On Ukraine’s Shopping Mall: Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian strike today on the shopping centre in Kremenchuk is one of the most brazen terrorist acts in European history.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-war-volodymyr-zelensky-lashes-out-at-russia-after-attack-on-ukraine-mall-3106380
ok I comment on this also. how is it a false flag?
NDTV is majority( almost) owned by Star which is a Mudroch group business.
It has the most appalling news on the SMO. Nobody cares much for its reporting on SMO in India.
The damage was caused by Ukrainian SAMs launched to intercept the Russian missiles. This was in vain, as all four Russian missiles hit their (military) target and did no harm to civilians.
The story I have seen in various quarters is that the Ukrainians had S300 and also Buks. Unfortunately they were not integrated. So they launched both, and the Buks shot down some of their own S300s. Debris fell randomly and killed some people.
NDTV is an Indian liberal rag. It’s like getting the news from CNN in the US.
It is evident that the West plays the card that the enemy has good control of himself and will not allow himself to be provoked. In this way he tries to sell the image of a value that he lacks.
If someone wants to learn about German invasion of Soviet Russia..WW2..check out ‘ the Unknown war’ excellent 20 part documentary series narrated by American actor Burt Lancaster can be viewed on you tube or DVD.
Thanks for the recommendation. Watching it now.
Another great documentary of the second world wR is World At War. Made by the BBC in the late ‘60s early 70s I think, back when the BBC was actually a dependable news and documentary producer.
this morning I read of missile hitting shopping centre in central ukraine. what is the reason for this? were there weapons stored there? 11 civilians killed.
That is what the Ukie’s “claim”. But it’s not certain. As we’ve seen many times the Ukies like to put military equipment in shopping centers. Plus the Ukies claim there were a thousand people in the mall. But the parking lot was almost empty. And the lot is full of soldiers running around. There is also a military factory next door to the mall. So we need to wait and see what the Russian MOD has to say about this issue before just blaming Russia like NATO media does.
Ukraine and its US paymaster pile lie upon lie. Barely anything they report is true and there is so much evidence of this. I struggle to understand why anyone quotes or even slightly believes their propaganda lies from their heavily controlled media.
Two differnt ukranian AD systems (Buk and S300) not coordinated with each other, were engaged in trying to shoot down incoming RF missiles, aimed at military targets.
A missile from one of the systems mistook a missile from the other system as an incoming missile, and shot it down.
The resulting explosion came in the mall.
how could you possibly know this?
This comes from the Russian MoD.
On the whole, they are pretty reliable and, of course, they do have tracking data.
Looks like Russia is backtracking from the first reports about friendly fire, saying ammo explosions set the mall on fire.
At the same time it is mentioned that the mall was not in full function, and that there is something fishy about the corpses, UN representative Polyansky saying it looks lika a Bucha staged event.
Also, Ukraine have questions about why so many people (as they report) were there, and why the mall was not closed down during air alerts.
One conclusion could be that the Ukrainans were waiting for the attack, already prepared for a “lot of casualties”.
https://tass.com/emergencies/1472519
https://tass.com/politics/1472643
MOD has confirmed this now.
Looks like the shopping centre is close to a railway station, so I suspect they were after weapons on trains and missed.
The Ukrainians have a long record of using shopping centres and other civilian infrastructure for military purposes. But of course you should know all this.
You really need to ask that question?
On the subject of how Western historians present the Red Army as a force composed of war criminals permitted to rob, rape and loot, so as to make them easy to hate and ignore: my grandfather mentioned to me exactly two cases he personally saw as a lieutenant in the battle for Konigsberg. Both culprits were caught red-handed trying to rob whoever stayed behind when they got to the urban areas; both were summarily executed on the spot and the taken property was returned. He saw nothing else of the sort after that. My grandfather was not in the habit of sugarcoating his war stories to me, he mentioned the tragic losses of his squad and various problems at the front in full detail, so let that serve as one example of a Red Army officer’s testimony passed down.
The only thing the Yoo-Wish institutions are good at: Propaganda (Tavistock Institute + the mass media) and Terror.
Thank you I always appreciate your analysis .
According to the First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bessonov, more than 50 thousand Ukrainian soldiers have died since the beginning of the Russian special operation in Ukraine.
The deputy minister aided that most of the combat-ready units of Ukraine were destroyed or captured.
“According to my observations, from what gets into the network, if you add all this into the overall picture, they have more than 50 thousand dead – this is if you take the entire front line. Counting the wounded is usually one to three, one to four, that is, roughly speaking, more than 150 thousand may be wounded,” Bezsonov said in his interview.
The report of the DPR official are confirmed by the claims of Ukrainian servicemen. Sky News agency has recently published an interview with an Ukrainian officer who was deployed in the Severodonetsk area.
The commander of an elite unit of the Ukrainian Marine Corps, who gave his name as Olexander, said that most of his most trained soldiers were wounded or killed. The losses amounted to about 80% of the well-trained and battle-hardened fighters with whom he had been fighting side by side since 2018. According to him, heavy losses have a strong emotional and psychological impact on both other units and relatives of servicemen. Olexander admitted that he does not know how long the AFU would be able to bear such losses.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are suffering heavy losses in manpower and military equipment during the battles with Russian, LPR and DPR troops. Russian military media are publishing more and more interviews with Ukrainian prisoners of war who served in the rear units, which confirms that the military command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is experiencing a shortage of manpower and uses untrained servicemen as cannon fodder on the front line.
Brings back memories: 1990…i was sent to Hungary with the words ringing in my ears that as a market researcher i might be arrested as a spy. Nothing of the kind..the Hungarians were welcoming and extremely keen to develop contacts with western Europe…(but…the experience of western financial inflitration has not been positive for Hungary in the long run). There I got to know a girl from East Berlin and subsequently stayed with her, for the next 14 years, for at least 5 months a year. She then alternating and staying with me in London…plenty of time to get to know all the interesting differences in Weltanschauung between East and West. One of the topics i raised was the attitude of Soviet soldiers. She explained that her mother had been in East Berlin during the Soviet invasion and occupation and had always stated how kind all the Soviets were. My Gf was born in 1949 so she grew up in the DDR with Soviet troops stationed nearby in old Nazi barracks. She only knew the Soviets to be extremely kind to kids and she and other German kids were showered with chocolates and sweets. So whilst the Americans dropped sweets with their Rosinenbomber, the Russians were distributing sweets in their own sector. At no time did my Gf ever state that there was fear or loathing or suspicion by German women, against Soviet troopers. In fact, I gained the strong impression that the Soviet military was kept very much isolated in their barracks most of the time. So that was the life in East Berlin up to 1961 …a time when, if east German women felt uneasy being surrounded by Soviet troops, they still had a chance to walk across and escape to the West….but they did not…
I also received a very different perspective on the DDR government. Whilst my Gf conceded that the DDR government was malevolent in terns of the psychological pressure on its population, she nevertheless remained full of Ostalgia for the far better social security system of the DDR…I experienced it in its last days and i can attest that it was far superior to the British NHS. One western lie which my Gf debunked was that of the East Germans being forced only to listen to State propaganda. She stated that when her TV broke down in the late 1970s, she went straight to the office of Honeckers wife and informed her that she needed to have her access to west German TV reconnected. The job was organised and completed and she had her access to west German TV back again…Many similar situations: In my student days in the 1970s, i was firmly told that if i crossed into the DDR on a holiday, i would be arrested by the Soviets. A Swiss friend who had the courage to travel there, reported back to me that he never faced any difficulties at all in travelling around the DDR, anywhere he liked and he came back with a vast photo collection…he never felt importuned…
Oh dear the Russians hit a (supposed) shopping mall! Well please gentleman, even if the mall was totally destroyed, where are the photos of the businesses inside? You know….Victoria’s Secret, Starbucks, etc? Not even a few LATTE cups or brassiere cups survived this heinous onslaught? Kind of like the passenger “plane” that hit the pentagon. No bodies to be found…..
This carnage and destruction is just candy that the nato directed cult bois have been abused into.
The best of the best, the ultimate untouchable elite perform absurd theater of the despicable while they dance upon the grave of this wicked and broken fantasy they’ve illicitly constructed.
The magnitude of this crime brings to play without doubt the war between spiritual forces, both those seen and unseen.
This war is no longer optional for the USG and its cucks in the assuredly finished e.u.
Whoever is running joe biden doesn’t seem like a very respectable person.
The west will lose this war politically.
If the maniacs remain in control then the west will be if required neutralized militarily as well.
Russia and the majority of the world are rejecting western propaganda and are choosing to align with the new world order choosen by a legit basis.
F the empire forever…
Even if the story were true, it would be sad if innocent people were killed but this vile and corrupt Ukrainian government has bombed and killed 14k+ people in the Donbass area over a period of eight years.
An Ella Fitzgerald song titled “Cry Me a River” comes to mind. The title here is significant not the lyrics.
14k includes 11k both Ukrainian and Russian military deaths in the Donbas war. 3k civilians perished in the crossfire, including the shot down airplane. So you exaggerate a little.
There has never been shown any proof of “Russian military ” in Donbass before the SMO. That is just Ukie/Western propaganda. They refused to admit that the local Donbass fighters and civilian foreign volunteers were beating them,and wanted to blame Russia. Commenters here should know that already, and not be spouting Ukie/Western propaganda points.
you would be very naive to believe that Russia did not materially support the local Donbas fighters in a similar way to the Ukrainians are being supported now.
There is no evidence of that. But plenty that they didn’t. The LDNR forces are mostly using “hand-me-down” equipment. Much of it captured or bought from Ukrainian forces.And some of it given to them by the Russians that they captured from Ukrainians during the current SMO. Some of it is homemade in the LDNR (they were the industrial center of the pre-2014 Ukraine),or crowdfunded by volunteer organizations.
If the Russians had been supplying them for 8 years the aid we had thought they were.They wouldn’t be having to scrounge for supplies like they are today. I’m pretty sure the Russians probably gave them a “bone or two” over those years. And the volunteer organizations have been working somewhat for those 8 years. But I doubt they got anything like the aid that NATO gave the Ukies during those years.
Where the Russians did help the LDNR a lot over those years was with humanitarian and economic aid. There they did a lot to help them,but just not with much military aid.
Good evening, Andrei.
Thank you for today’s historic remarks. Very interesting, indeed.
As an (East) German that grew up in the 60ies and 70ies, I found nothing wrong in our official propaganda narrative that the Soviet Union had to be seen as our best friend. A certain percentage of the population seemed to have adopted this position, very few expressed their opposition in public. So, I was naïve enough to believe that a similar stance would also apply to the people of our eastern neighbors (the brotherhood of Slavs, right?).
Now, we are observing quite opposite sentiments, deeply rooted in many eastern countries, especially Poland and the Baltic republics.
I wonder what your thoughts on this issue are. Are we just seeing the results of 40 years of very successful (re-)education? Or do historic circumstances that are seldom talked about also play a decisive role?
Best wishes for your teeth!
Jens
I think the Pols think back to when Russia was Hitler’s ally and then divided up the nation as one of the two pronged invasion. Then there was the 50 years or so spent behind the iron curtain. Leaves a bad teste.
They never talk about when Polish troops entered an area of Czechoslovakia with Hitlers permission before that,or the fact that if the Soviets had not entered Poland three million Nazi troops would have beenright on Russia’s border sooner than they were,the Soviets were buying time so you need to get your facts right.
@Jens
I was in Poland in the late 70s and early 80s and I saw the difference between the DDR people and the Poles. At the beginning of the Solidarność revolts, in the Kawarnie, the Poles discussed freely even in the presence of ZOMO (Zmotoryzowane Odwody Milicji Obywatelskiej) while the East Germans were silent and lowered their eyes. This is the difference between the Slavic people and the Germanic people.
I know what you mean, and that’s a good point. But no law without an endless number of exceptions.
I went to Leipzig in 1989 as an observer. Believe it or not, most people behaved as you described it from the Poles, right in front of our ‘Bereitschaftspolizei’.
Perhaps, it does not suffice to explain historic developments with supposed differences between nations alone.
Greetings!
As they said they would do
🇷🇺🇱🇹⚡ Russian KillNet paralyzed Lithuania
Earlier, the KillNet hacker group issued an ultimatum, giving the Lithuanian authorities 48 hours to unblock the transport corridor to Kaliningrad.
Now crash on over 1000 sites
❌ “The paralyzed secure state network of Lithuania has not yet been restored. A bunch of useless Baltic specialists promised their Curator from the Cyber Security Agency that they would restore everything by morning.”
❌ The Central State Archive of Lithuania and all adjacent online services went to Bandera.
❌ The Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania fell along with all the electronic services of the judicial system.
❌The websites of Lithuanian airports, together with the Internet resource of their directorate, continue to be in “isolation” and barely plow!
❌ Minus the State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania.
❌There is also Telia Lietuva, which provides telecommunications, information and television services.
❌ BITĖ Lietuva is a mobile services company with more than 1.2 million subscribers.
Has there been confirmation of this …the attacks on Lithuanian internet? To me Russia looks weak as Lithuanis dictates how Kaliningrad can be supplied. Russia is forced to use ferries to try and supply their enclave. Now I read today a HIMARS rocket killed 40 Russian soldiers and officers near Izyum. How will Russia respond to this latest provocation?
What do you want from Russia? this a real war and not a videogame. Those provocations are sign of desperation because Russia is winning in all fronts.
USA tried really hard to provoke a confrontation between Colombia and Venezuela.
Maduro waited patiently for a change of waters and that’s exactly what happened some days ago when a ex guerrilla guy won the presidency in Colombia.
Yes Andrei –
Russia needs to help US get onto the straight & narrow with its Govt system so that it in a proper shape.
But as Abraham Lincoln said “A house divided against it self cannot stand” and he was not talking about Congress when he said it – so the current massive divide of radical Democrats & corrupt RINOs against real people will cause the US house to collapse. Its a mathematical certainty.
Time for action.
We need to realize US “plans” towards a Russia are from EU elites directives, not their own.
This has been the case for 100-150 years.
The locals make a big $ out of following these plans.
The US has been hijacked.
Re Red Army Crimes.
My father was recruited in 1942 at age 18 to kill Russians. His account as told to me was that he took 3 bullets but his life was saved by Russians. He spent years in a POW work battalion. He said German POWs were not abused and the Russians enforced rules re. the treatment of POWs.
Grandfather and Great Uncle were POWs in Alabama. Their account as told to me was that they personally witnessed the murder of German POWs in horrific ways.
This wouldnt surprise me. USSR wanted to win over the German people.
And they knew most German soldiers were conscripts only following orders.
There are stories of Eisenhower’s deaths camps in France & Germany too although it depended on who the commanders of each camp were. There were good ones and bad ones.
But there was a worldwide food shortage in 1946 which added to problems.
1945 saw the coldest winter in several decades.
False propaganda is ripe in the current UKN situation.
From IntelSlava
🇷🇺❗Warning: Roscosmos releases satellite imagery of decision centers ahead of NATO summit
While at the upcoming summit of the alliance, representatives of 30 participating countries and their sympathizers will declare Russia the number one evil, Roskosmos publishes entertaining satellite images – those same “decision centers”, well, coordinates, just in case😉
⠀⠀🇺🇸 38.897542, -77.036505
⠀⠀🇺🇸 38.870960, -77.055935
⠀⠀🇬🇧 51.503049, -0.127727
⠀⠀🇫🇷 48.870433, 2.316842
⠀⠀🇩🇪 52.519903, 13.368921
⠀⠀🇧🇪 50.879986, 4.425771
and google map says;
⠀⠀🇺🇸 38.897542, -77.036505, the White House
⠀⠀🇺🇸 38.870960, -77.055935, the Pentagon
⠀⠀🇬🇧 51.503049, -0.127727, the 10 Downing Street
⠀⠀🇫🇷 48.870433, 2.316842, the Elysee Palace
⠀⠀🇩🇪 52.519903, 13.368921, the German Chancellery
⠀⠀🇧🇪 50.879986, 4.425771, the NATO
Rogozin is a much better entertainer than Zelensky.
The core of the overall problem currently and for the past 30 yrs in US is that the Disneyland generation has been running things.
People who were teenagers in the mid 1950s to early 1960s.
Their brains have been effected by that and the drugs and or alcohol and decadent lifestyle.
Pelosi, the Clintons, Schummer, W Bush, Romney, McConnell etc…..
They’ve never lived in the real world.
This is the lot running things and is it any wonder things are shambles ?
Trump (not that he’s perfect or people agree with everything he does) conversely never drinks nor has been a drug taker.
And then there’s their siblings too – the next generation and next & their minons.
Obama , Schiff, Warren, AOC, Barr, Brennan etc…..
Needs a clean sweep.
Andrei says that Russia will just supply Kaliningrad by sea … using some of its new ships and protecting them.
But I found an interesting comment that says that a land bridge will become imperative >>> quote:>>>>
I believe most people do not realise the gravity of the situation. They think it will blow over, just like many other a time.
Speaking to my father about this. He has always been interested in WW2 and is therefore well aware of how Russia got Kaliningrad, and just how important it is.
If more Americans knew about the partial blockade of Kaliningrad, home of the Baltic Sea Fleet, by a NATO nation during a war they would be far more worried.
Russia will be FORCED to break the blockade before winter as the ports supplying Kaliningrad from Russian mainland freeze in winter and then it would be completely cut off.
Russia WILL NEVER allow Kaliningrad to be isolated militarily by NATO. Ever.
Very good comment:
“Russia will be FORCED to break the blockade before winter as the ports supplying Kaliningrad from Russian mainland freeze in winter and then it would be completely cut off.
Russia WILL NEVER allow Kaliningrad to be isolated militarily by NATO. Ever.”
So perhaps it is time to talk about A2/AD or Anti Access Area Denial operations. Part of Russia’s use of Kaliningrad is its shore-based air and sea denial capabilities A2/AD. But this also works overland and at the entrance to the Baltic sea in favor of NATO according to some of their planners.
It is probably best to let TRADOC OE S-2 explain how this works in this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=car1O_qfkW0
Some of the “big brains” in the Pentagon think the above model is dated and prefer something called mosaic warfare when it comes to (IoMT).
Can you spot the flaws in the above video? The video looks a lot like a Kaliningrad scenario, no?
Pretty sure Andrei put up pictures of a Russian nuclear powered ice breaker, one of the largest in the world. I think he said it was undergoing sea trials, and a second sister ship is in some stage of building. Ice will not be an issue. Last time I read about a Russian ice breaker it was rescuing a trapped ship at the South Pole. Armed escort may be required at some point though.
I know this from first hand experience; War brings out any demons people have been suppressing in peacetime. In peacetime when there is law and order, it is more difficult for SOME people with anti-social tendencies to act them out. But in the chaos of war, especially when others might be acting out in ways they never would back home during peace, and there is a feeling of revenge, more soldiers than you would suspect engage in things that are shocking or even criminal. I have no doubt PLENTY of German and Polish women were raped and killed during the capture and occupation of their lands. Years ago I worked with a woman {her name was “Rosemary” in English} who was originally from East Prussia. She and her family escaped via the sea on a ship, but not before she had spoken to other refugees from the east who had witnessed and experienced terrible things {today they would be considered war crimes}. I am not saying this type of thing was exclusive to Russian soldiers, because it is not. All through history this sort of thing happens, and it happens to this very day. To deny it is less than honest.
Thanks for this. No doubt the “Hellstorm” version of the red army’s drive through Germany is an exaggeration, though we won’t know the exact and full truth until the end of time–when Christ reveals all our sins at the last judgment.
Soviet Jew Ilya Ehrenburg’s blatant exhortation to the Red Army “The Blonde b****h is in for a bad time” played into the post war narrative.
It’s good to know that the Red Army punished many of the rapists with death. I wonder if we in the US Army did the same to US rapists.
I don’t know that the Europeans view Russians as untermenschen. European elites hate Russia, and the great bulk of Europeans, though they do not agree with it, seem to go along with it–to their shame. But, in my opinion, the elites hate, contemn–and fear–Russia, not because they deem them another and lower species, but because they see in Russia a revival of something traditional, organic, and Christian–which they once were but which they now hate.
The European Elite–and for that matter the elite of America, once a child of Europe–has thoroughly apostasized from anything remotely resembling Christian Civilization. That is why it is so important that Russia win a clear cut victory in Ukraine.