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Shameful: Rape- a weapon of Russian Army during World War II

New Delhi: Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of Russia in 1941, began the most genocidal conflict in history. Perhaps 30 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union are now thought to have died during the war,

India TV News Desk Updated on: May 21, 2014 8:10 IST


According to a book by the military historian Anthony Beevor by the time the Russians reached Berlin, soldiers were regarding women almost as carnal booty; they felt because they were liberating Europe they could behave as they pleased.

He stated in his book that Russian and Polish women and girls liberated from concentration camps were also violated.

Many had to have abortions or be treated for the syphilis they caught from being raped by different men.

Children born out of the abuses were called Russenbabies and most were abandoned and left to die.
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