Soviet Union was our ally in World War II, Dick, and our side would not have won without it. The land and air battles of the Western Front were miniscule in size and ferocity compared to the Eastern Front. The Red Army liberated my father and thousands of other American, British, Commonwealth, Czech, Polish air crews from a POW camp 20 miles from Berlin.
Indeed very true. This book is fiction, but the author, Thomas Harris, does research and has a NYC police reporter's strong credentials-- Yes, the creator of Hanninal "The Cannibal" Lector-- in his latest, "Hannibal Rising" the first chapters deal with the Russians moving the krauts back in 1944-1945 in the Ukraine-- not a very pretty sight, and yes, the Russians raped and killed German women en route to Berlin, and took and kept very few Kraut prisoners--
The Russian people have always been oppressed and have long hard memories, their savagery against the Germans- who invaded their homelasnd in the Summer of 1941. War is a cruel and unrelenting fact of life for the Russians, but without them as Allies, we might be eating Sauerkraut for breakfast!
