They at least did not reguralry shoot/kill/torture children. I will not defend Soviets, I hate them. My country was occupied first by Germans then by Soviets. I remember Soviets personally and I have talked to many people who remembered Nazis personally. The Nazi madness was however even more crazy and intense. Whole villages burned. Children used as experimental animals. Murders on industrial scale. That said, there would have been enough material for Moscow Trials, if the US Army had not stopped in Pilsen.
Dude, they absolutely did. They lit people on fire. They raped millions of women. The NAZIs were no doubt evil, but what happened to ethnic Germans in the aftermath of both WW1 and WW2 was nothing short of a crime against humanity. People should have been punished, but because the Holocaust was so bad, people readily accept that it was deserved. And it wasn’t just on the eastern front, it happened on the western side as well. Maybe this is just the nature of losing a war, but we still have college professors in America who challenge that the Ukrainian Holocaust even happened.
I have no sympathy for NAZIs. My family has NAZI memorabilia my grandfather took from the NAZIs he killed. However, to displace, torture, rape and kill entire populations because of their ethnicity and the crimes their government committed was a disgusting crime. Knowing the things our government has done, I’m very hesitant to blame a population for the crimes of their government.
Sadly, there was a strong support for Hitler and Nazis from German people. In Czechoslovakia, there was a strong support for Hitler from ethic Germans, citizens of Czechoslovakia. They betrayed their own country. Not all of them, of course. Anyway, both Germans and Soviets committed horrible crimes, we can agree on that. Soviets won the war, so they did not face any trials. But after WWI there was no need for Nuremberg Trials, because while the war was cruel and bloody, there was not that evil inhuman insanity that happened in WWII. What happened in WWII was just beyond human comprehension.
They at least did not reguralry shoot/kill/torture children. I will not defend Soviets, I hate them. My country was occupied first by Germans then by Soviets. I remember Soviets personally and I have talked to many people who remembered Nazis personally. The Nazi madness was however even more crazy and intense. Whole villages burned. Children used as experimental animals. Murders on industrial scale. That said, there would have been enough material for Moscow Trials, if the US Army had not stopped in Pilsen.
Dude, they absolutely did. They lit people on fire. They raped millions of women. The NAZIs were no doubt evil, but what happened to ethnic Germans in the aftermath of both WW1 and WW2 was nothing short of a crime against humanity. People should have been punished, but because the Holocaust was so bad, people readily accept that it was deserved. And it wasn’t just on the eastern front, it happened on the western side as well. Maybe this is just the nature of losing a war, but we still have college professors in America who challenge that the Ukrainian Holocaust even happened.
I have no sympathy for NAZIs. My family has NAZI memorabilia my grandfather took from the NAZIs he killed. However, to displace, torture, rape and kill entire populations because of their ethnicity and the crimes their government committed was a disgusting crime. Knowing the things our government has done, I’m very hesitant to blame a population for the crimes of their government.
Sadly, there was a strong support for Hitler and Nazis from German people. In Czechoslovakia, there was a strong support for Hitler from ethic Germans, citizens of Czechoslovakia. They betrayed their own country. Not all of them, of course. Anyway, both Germans and Soviets committed horrible crimes, we can agree on that. Soviets won the war, so they did not face any trials. But after WWI there was no need for Nuremberg Trials, because while the war was cruel and bloody, there was not that evil inhuman insanity that happened in WWII. What happened in WWII was just beyond human comprehension.
It was him or the Communists. People conveniently forget about the Reds rampaging across Europe in the 20s-30s