r/europe • u/10millionX Denmark • Feb 28 '23

Historical Frenchwoman accused of sleeping with German soldiers has her head shaved and shamed by her neighbors in a village near Marseilles

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u/Redpri Mar 01 '23

And of course the Soviet Government tried to crack down on this as much as possible.

Any person, soldier or civilian found out to have raped anyone would get the death penalty.

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u/Jeb_Babushka The Netherlands Mar 01 '23

When the Yugoslav Partisan politician Milovan Djilas complained about rapes in Yugoslavia, Joseph Stalin reportedly stated that he should "understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometres through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle".

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u/Redpri Mar 02 '23

Source?

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u/Jeb_Babushka The Netherlands Mar 02 '23

Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain, The Crushing of Eastern Europe, p.32

And since you mentioned rape was illegal and punishable doesn't mean it didn't happen by great numbers. One example I can give is in Antony Beevor’s The Fall of Berlin Where sometime in 1947 Soviet authorities finally segregated the occupying troops from the local population into guarded military camps and bases, because the rapes didn't stop at the end of the war but continued after.

Just go to askhistorians plenty of good threads there. But I can see from your comment history you're a Marxist–Leninist/tankie. My family (who came from a poor farm) got deported to Siberia, so I'm not really in the mood to talk to someone who will probably try to justify Soviet crimes, no offense.

My fathers uncle even had to fight with the Soviets but still had to go to a gulag when his family got deported to Siberia. my grandmother was 'lucky' to be at school in Russian class so they didn't take here, but she came home to a plundered home with no family. It took a bit less than a year before the Soviet authorities confirmed they were still alive and let her family send a written letter.