Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Why Were the Soviets so Cruel in East Prussia during World War II?" video.
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War was started by Germany. This puts an end in the question of who was the bad guy.
Nazi racial theory did not consider the Slavs to be people. In Poland, the Nazis killed 6 million people, of whom only 2.5 million were Jews. 1/5 of the population. During the invasion of the Soviet Union, responsibility for any crimes was removed from German soldiers. Gudenian even had an order for his troops - he treats Soviet women and children as cruelly and inhumanly as possible. Innocent Soviet civilians were hanged on the gallows, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian women were massively raped, 7 million Soviet civilians were brutally killed in concentration camps, they were gassed, forced to work 16 hours without food, as a result of which the prisoners died of starvation. There was a concentration camp in the Baltic States where the Nazis took blood from Soviet children for their wounded soldiers, in which 53 thousand Soviet children were killed. The Nazis burned prisoners who could not work alive in furnaces, including women and children, or bulldozed them. During the retreat, the Nazis burned Soviet villages along with civilians and infrastructure. This war, I repeat once again, was started by Germany. Now answer the question. Did Soviet soldiers have the moral right to retaliate for all this?
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