This documentary begins with the account of a woman who remembers that when the soviets entered the town in Germany where she resided all of her friends ran, but her leg was injured so she had no choice but to stay. She was only nineteen and was raped by four different Soviet soldiers. It is estimated that two million women shared this fate and are still terrified by the events of their past. Most of these events are believed to have taken place in the post war years, but no one focused on the suffering of German citizens because the World was too preoccupied with viewing the crimes of the Nazis.
I believe that the Soviets thought they could utilize rape as a method to strike back at the Germans for invading the Soviet Union, but such crimes are unforgivable. Whether or not it is true that many Soviet women were raped during the Nazi invasion, it does not justify terrorizing the populace and using them as a tool to strike back at the Nazis. Also, the war was over when most of this was believed to have taken place, the Nazis were in ruins and this would not be a strike against them, but instead a strike against the German civilian. This distinction between civilian and political party however, is unfortunately rarely determined in times of war and if one is believed to be "the enemy" than they both are the enemy. The behavior of Soviet soldiers was unjustified, unforgivable, and quite simply a crime against humanity.
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