Is it true that Russian troops looted/raped Berlin mid-evil style for 3 days...

[Vesayen]

... after they captured it?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Only if they ran out of stuff they could carry off that quickly.

[muxec]

Efraim Sevella, famous Soviet writer, said that yes. But this was forbidden by military officials.

[SlowwHand]

So it would seem.
Of course, Nazi's were looters, too.

http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6225-9.cfm

http://www.history-europe.com/The_Fall_of_Berlin_1945_0142002801.html

[Q Classic]

yes, why?

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
So it would seem.
Of course, Nazi's were looters, too.

http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6225-9.cfm

http://www.history-europe.com/The_Fa...142002801.html

Of course the nazi's were looters, and they did far worse-just curious if this historical claim was true.

[Pekka]

Of course they did. But this is not to bash Rooskies in general.. I guess they were tired, in war, get victory, in Berlin.. what do you do? You turn them lose, they'll smash the place in half and loot.

[SlowwHand]

I imagine it is true.
Hell. Look at Tassadar, then tell me Russkie's don't hold a grudge.

[Pekka]

It would surprise me if they didn't loot. Not looking at the flag in their shoulder.

They should have done what we did.. burn every god damn house down, including your own, give no support what so ever for troops that are about to wipe you out.. destroy your lands, poison your water and jam the toilet.
Leave nothing for looting.

[Timexwatch]

Was there anything to loot in the first place?

[Dis]

bricks

[Dis]

The Soviets were especially brutal on the germans when they finally pushed them back. I really can't blame them too much. The world was much more brutal back then (something anti-american posters don't realize when talking about Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, and Dresden). And the soviet soldiers were trained to hate the Germans with all their heart. And after being betrayed and almost conquered the way they were, well...

[Pekka]

But I don't know if it should be called raping/looting of Berlin. More like victory party that got out of the hands... I wonder what kind of pressures these guys were under, and then suddenly you get to release the pressures, and there's a big city to do it in. That's why there should be 34000000 MPs to control the whole thing, but I bet there wasn't really even resources for that, if they even wanted it. And I bet most soldiers thought, that they are justified to take some. Little booze going on... it'll be a mess for sure, no doubt about it.

[chequita guevara]

In a book I read about 20-30 years ago about the Dresden bombing, it said that the Soviets were using Mongolian troops in the invasion of Germany, precisely for the purpose of looting and raping. Desdens was full of refugees fleeing these Mongolian troops when it was hit.

Course, I don't know how authoritiative a book it was, since I got it in my high school libary.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
yes, why?

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