Black and white is simple to understand, thats why black-white rhetorics are so loved on this forum....
what are you talking about at all? the plain Wehrmacht soldier and the plain Red Army soldier were pressed into service by their regime, forced to invade another country and to hold to the last spill of blood what has been conquered (Wehrmacht) or forced by NKVD officers to charge German lines sometimes even without a weapon and being shot if refused or retreatet (Red Army). both armies were mere tools by their oppressive regimes and their officers. left alone the 1 million of soviet citizens who aided the Wehrmacht (because of anti-Stalinism and anti-Communism and national independence movements). you cannot ignore the crimes of the Soviets against their own people, i fail to see why people here openly accept a minor episode of Caucasian nationalism but took a blind eye on one of the biggest crimes in human history. people always complain that AE has derogated in history quality, but i only see people who are eager to talk about politics, even in history forums! shut up! its YOU being the problem. if you want history, talk history, if you want politics, go on and open a new forum just for AEs political madness. Soviet Union was not invaded before 22nd june, and Stalin really cannot complain about Barbarossa either, Stalin invaded Eastern Europe on the basis of a treatment concluded with Evil himself? if you make a deal with the Devil, he will come for your soul later, Stalin didn't learned this lesson and his people had to pay the highest price for his imperialism. YES, Soviet Union is Imperialism, ever heard of Komintern? if the armed overtaking of all world-countries under a communist regime is not Imperialist, then i don't know what Imperialism is! and i don't understand why people always whine about Dresden bombing and such but hail the Red Armies war crimes as justified retaliation of similar German crimes...ever heard about Coventry and London? i don't care about those civilians killed at Dresden, war crime is war crime, war IS crime, why they complain about a natural thing? what else do they expect from war? if you whine about Dresden, why not whine about Berlin rapings? Janushead....a person with two faces, two moral standards...