civilwargal- I have a good friend named Max who lives in Ukraine. His grandfather "Nickolay" served in the Red Army as an artillarist before being captured and sent to Mauthausen Concentration camp. If anybody has a right to hate Germans it is Max, but he has shared stories with me that were told to him by elderly people who survived the German occupation...stories of compassion and acts of kindness on both sides that are good for me to hear, because after watching several hours of film about the Holocaust it's easy to come away with nothing but hatred in my heart for Germans (or Japanese). Not all Russians were guilty of rape in Berlin, just as not all Germans were guilty of sadistic acts in the occupied territories. I often forget this, as I am deeply affected emotionally when I see acts of cruelty commited against women and children (especially).
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Dogdaddy 