Soviet soldiers often engaged in plunder, rape and other crimes against the Poles, causing the population to fear and hate the regime. It is estimated that 3,450 Jews or 2.3 percent of the Jewish victims killed during the Russian Civil War were murdered by the Bolshevik armies. The work gives a rambling description of the Soviet invasion of East Prussia in January 1945; atrocities committed against German civilians are the main concern. Cum au fost omori 3.000 de romni, la grania cu Romnia, pe 1 aprilie 1941, de Pate", "75 Years Since 'The Romanian Katyn' Massacre At Fntna Alb 3,000 Romanians Killed", "Commemoration of Fntna Alb massacre: tears, grief, gratitude", "Masacrul de la Fntna Alb. Steve, no I dont think theres anything particular to World War I about this soldier mindset at all. They dealt a healthy blow to the fascists. For standard histories' treatment of the invasions, see Roger Chickering, Imperial GermanyandtheGreatWar,1914-1918,2nded.Cambridge,2004,24,26-27,and99; [84][85] Simon Sebag Montefiore estimated that 15 million kulaks and their families were deported by 1937, during the deportation many people died, but the full number is not known. Breasts of some of the nurses were cut off, the women being brutally raped. Message 3 - Russsian Atrocities in Berlin Posted on: 05 March 2005 by Trooper Tom Canning - WW2 Site Helper. That situation has begun to change with the publication of a good deal of high quality scholarship on the events on the Western Front, most notably John Horne and Alan Kramers German Atrocities, 1914, but scholarship on the events in East Prussia is far thinner. Indiscriminate killings of civilians attempting to flee the violence. As they were accused across the board of collaborating with the enemy, the Russian army began to remove them from the sensitive areas at the front and in the rear zones in the early months of the war already. (1997). [189][190] He is the only former Soviet partisan convicted of crimes against humanity. " "? He then "spoke agitatedly about the sufferings of the Red Army and the horrors that it was forced to endure while it was fighting through thousands of kilometers of devastated country." [154], Russian historian Konstantin Asmolov argues that such Western accounts of Soviet violence against civilians in the Far East are exaggerations of isolated incidents and the documents of the time don't support the claims of mass crimes. Soviet soldiers as well as KhAD agents kidnapped young women from the city of Kabul and the areas of Darul Aman and Khair Khana, near the Soviet garrisons, to rape them. And so upon our entry into the city we also began to plunder. The division set out and at six oclock in the evening crossed the border near the Filippovskii customs post in the direction of the town of Marusken, which is a verst from the Russian border. Mutual recrimination was the dominant mode for many years. [57] According to historian, Prof. Jan T. Gross: We cannot escape the conclusion: Soviet state security organs tortured their prisoners not only to extract confessions but also to put them to death. [55] Polish historian, Prof. Tomasz Strzembosz, has noted parallels between the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and these Soviet units. The War Crimes Bureau had five major sources of information: (1) captured enemy papers, especially orders, reports of operations, and propaganda leaflets; (2) intercepted radio and wireless messages; (3) testimony of Soviet prisoners of war; (4) testimony of captured Germans who had escaped; and (5) testimony of Germans who saw the corpses or mutilated bodies of executed prisoners of war. "[111][pagesneeded][112][pagesneeded], Accordingly, all evidence such as reports, photos and other documents of looting, rape, the burning down of farms and villages by the Red Army was deleted from all archives in the future GDR. The NKVD also conducted the Katyn massacre, summarily executing over 20,000 Polish military officer prisoners in April and May 1940. An order issued by Stavka on 20 April 1945 said that there was a need to maintain good relations with German civilians in order to decrease resistance and bring a quicker end to hostilities. Following World War II and the subsequent suppression of the Lithuanian Forest Brothers, the Soviet authorities executed thousands of resistance fighters and civilians whom they accused of aiding them. Although the passage from Keegan quoted by WalterS certainly referred to 1914, there is nothing in the subsequent comments by WalterS himself that limit them to 1914. . full stop. [17] Although pogroms by Ukrainian units of the Red Army still occurred after this, the Jews regarded the Red Army as the only force which was willing to protect them. Equally importantly, abusing civilians complicated military occupation, not only in East Prussia, but especially in Poland and Galicia, where the Russians were trying to win "hearts and minds." [99], According to historian Norman Naimark, statements in Soviet military newspapers and the orders of the Soviet high command were jointly responsible for the excesses of the Red Army. According to Djilas, the Soviet refusal to address protests against Red Army war crimes in Yugoslavia enraged Tito's government and it was a contributing factor in Yugoslavia's subsequent exit from the Soviet Bloc. 3,979 Atrocities Of Soviet Premium High Res Photos Browse 3,979 atrocities of soviet stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. How three million Germans died after VE Dayhttp://www.odfinfo.de/en/History/After-the-Reich.htm'They raped every German female from eight to 80'http://www.od. by Ogorek 08 Nov 2004, 19:48, Post Propaganda proclaimed that the Red Army had entered Germany as an avenger to punish all Germans. [158][159], Throughout the Second World War, the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau collected and investigated reports of crimes against the Axis POWs. all that solves the population problem a man might consider evil, id call it nature, heres to another century of glorious violence . [151][152][153] There were several incidences,[spelling?] When Steve Barnes invited me to join this project, I hadnt given much thought to blogging as a scholarly enterprise. . The procedure was established by the Serov Instructions. Prussia was forced to accept a French army of occupation and had to become an ally of France, contributing troops to his ongoing wars. Goldsmiths, University of London. Between 1941 and 1944, Soviet partisan units conducted raids deep inside Finnish territory, attacking villages and other civilian targets. [182] Deserters from the Soviet Army in 1984 claimed that they had heard of Afghan women being raped. [162], During the winter of 194142, the Red Army captured approximately 10,000 German soldiers each month, but the death rate became so high that the absolute number of prisoners decreased (or was bureaucratically reduced). Whenever possible, as soon as the Wehrmacht retreated, local civilians began to flee westward on their own initiative. The Russian invasion of East Prussia occurred during the First World War, lasting from August to September 1914. Here we see this brutality already at the very outset of that war. "Der Umgang mit den Denkmlern." "[160], In a November 1941 report, the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau accused the Red Army of employing "a terror policy against defenseless German soldiers that have fallen into its hands and against members of the German medical corps. [6] In 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the "horrors of Stalinism", but he also criticized the "excessive demonization of Stalin" by "Russia's enemies". The Rape of Berlin: Red Army atrocities in 1945 "Red Army soldiers don't believe in 'individual liaisons' with German women," wrote the playwright Zakhar Agranenko in his diary whilst serving as an officer of marine infantry in East Prussia."Nine, ten, twelve men at a time - they rape them on a collective basis." [19] In comparison, according to the Morgenthau Report, a total of about 300 Jews died in all incidents involving Polish responsibility. His coolness in the face of brutality is quite unnerving. [47], Lithuania, and the other Baltic States, fell victim to the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. According to American professor Carroll Quigley, at least one third of the 320,000 Polish prisoners of war captured by the Red Army in 1939 were murdered. Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces in Ukraine have destroyed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, shopping centers and ambulances, leaving thousands of civilians killed or wounded. Then, in 1942, 1944 and 1949, the NKVD indiscriminately arrested all Greek men 16 years old or older. Res Publica i Wyd. In other instances they were committed without orders by Soviet troops against prisoners of war or civilians of countries that had been in armed conflict with the USSR, or they were committed during partisan warfare.[2]. [138], Religious persecution was also widespread, the Soviet government sought to exterminate all forms of organized religion in its occupied territories, often persecuting the Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish churches, the Soviet political police arrested numerous priests, with others being arrested and interrogated by the Soviet NKVD itself, then deported to the interior of the USSR, and killed. This kind of feeling would make sense later in the war, and particularly dug in on the western front where the lines of battle moved little, but Im surprised to see it so early on the eastern front. The commission also found that the Polish military and civil authorities did their best to prevent such incidents and their recurrence in the future. [7], The Soviet Union did not recognize Imperial Russia's signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 as binding, and as a result, it refused to recognize them until 1955. [172] The Soviet forces abducted Afghan women in helicopters while flying in the country in search of mujahideen. Civilians were killed by conventional bombs during the invasion. Really interesting, Josh. [187], In 2003, August Kolk (born 1924), an Estonian national, and Petr Kislyiy (born 1921), a Russian national, were convicted of crimes against humanity by Estonian courts and each sentenced to eight years in prison. Most of the Ingrian Finns together with Votes and Izhorians living in German-occupied territory were evacuated to Finland in 19431944. It had been one of the strongest pro-German holdouts in the war that formed an independent Latvia after WWI. Martynas Jankus and the deportation of East Prussian civilians to Russia during World War I, . I don't see the point of this thread at all. Total War produced atrocities so terrible that they were bound to be avenged once the Red Army reached German soil. The matter-of-fact approach to everyday occurrences seems quite similar. Everyone was all mixed up together, someone groaned, someone threw up. The place the Russians entered Germany. by WalterS 14 Nov 2004, 08:29, Post Only two were presentYuriy Mel, a former Soviet tank officer, and Gennady Ivanov, a former Soviet munitions officerwhile the other were sentenced in absentia and are hiding in Russia. Some 300,000 Lithuanians were deported or sentenced to terms in prison camps on political grounds. Can't he understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometers through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle?"[144]. Today I received joyful news. . [122] Naimark concluded that "The social psychology of women and men in the Soviet zone of occupation was marked by the crime of rape from the first days of occupation, through the founding of the GDR in the fall of 1949, until, one could argue, the present. [13][14][15] Only a small number of pogroms were attributed to the Red Army, with the vast majority of the 'collectively violent' acts in the period having been committed by anti-Communist and nationalist forces. We must remember that, for the most part, WWI was a dynastic struggle, not a "war of annihilation" that WWII in the east became. I havent read much in WW I soldiers diaries, but the cadence of your translation reminds me of some of the British soldiers of the period. rape and looting is a natural (and best) part of warfare, reference to which can be found in many primary sources. Jacob Robinson. Argnold did not like Russian soldiers in general, since he himself was a German baron, and Rekunov also was strict. We fired a rifle volley at the Germans creeping up our left flank, but the darkness hampered the shooting. was looted several times. [73] It is estimated that over 20,000 people died in Soviet prisons[citation needed]. 160 wounded soldiers had been left in military hospitals by the retreating Wehrmacht. [75] In Krakw, the Soviet entry into the city was accompanied by mass rapes of Polish women and girls, as well as the plunder of private property by Red Army soldiers. YouTube of the Week Sand Animation of WWII, THE RUSSIAN FRONT New Russian history group blog, More resources for projects | Resource sharing at CHS. Russia began perpetrating war crimes in Ukraine in 2014, as part of its forced annexation of Crimea and upon launching the war in Donbas. . In general, the communication of emotion to oneself seems to not have been among the purposes of most of these diarists. The Red Army was also involved in mass-scale looting in liberated territories. All Greeks who were wealthy or self-employed professionals were sought for prosecution first. A partisan war broke out in response to the atrocities of the destruction battalions, with tens of thousands of men forming the Forest Brothers to protect the local population from these battalions. Soviet Leninets-class submarine L-12 and L-19 sank two Japanese refugee transport ships Ogasawara Maru and Taito Maru while also damaging No.2 Shinko Maru on August 22, 7 days after Hirohito had announced Japan's unconditional surrender. On the way, they ran into the commander of the division, General Gurko, and his adjutant Lieutenant Argnold, who ordered them to be given five lashes for overworking their horses. [97], In 1943 and 1944, the Soviet government accused several entire ethnic groups of Axis collaboration. by Tancred 14 Nov 2004, 03:27, Post . I found that ignorance rather odd in view of his constant hammering of the theme of Jewish suffering during the Second World War. I wonder how much of a role terrible boredom ( ), such as Iakovlev complained of, played in that cruelty. Karl, I wonder as much about material constraints and the genre of diary writing as about the emotional state of Subbotin or other diarists. 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In November 2006, photographs showing Soviet atrocities were declassified by the Finnish authorities. by sylvieK4 09 Nov 2004, 15:59, Post From 1941 to 1945 the Bureau compiled several thousand depositions, reports, and captured papers which, if nothing else, indicate that the killing of German prisoners of war upon capture or shortly after their interrogation was not an isolated occurrence. Between 1940 and 1941, thousands of Lithuanians were arrested and hundreds of political prisoners were arbitrarily executed. , The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven p. 424. International Commission For the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. The Red Army often gave support to the NKVD in the implementation of political repressions. The Krlis Ulmanis government was removed, and new illegitimate elections were held on 21 June 1940 with only one party listed, "electing" a fake parliament which made resolution to join the Soviet Union, with the resolution having already been drawn up in Moscow prior the election. Konev's response was to claim it was done mainly by Red Army deserters. Beevor has written that Red Army soldiers also raped Soviet and Polish women liberated from concentration camps, and he contends that this undermines the revenge explanation,[119] they were often committed by rear echelon units. 50,000). [27] The Estonian standing army was broken up, its officers executed or deported. General Korneev responded by screaming, "I protest most sharply at this insult given to the Red Army by comparing it with the armies of capitalist countries. The original question on this thread was a quest for knowledge about the behavior of Russian troops in East Prussia in 1914, and whether or not they had committed atrocities against the civilian population. The USSR conquered it in 1940, but then . Grzegorz Baziur, "Armia Czerwona na Pomorzu Gdaskim 19451947", Janusz Wrbel, "Wyzwoliciele czy Okupanci. Discussions on the Holocaust and 20th Century War Crimes. Mariusz Lesaw Krogulski, "Okupacja w imi sojuszu" Poland 2001. sfn error: no target: CITEREFMarshall2010 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFVouitra2011 (, Vertreibung und Vertreibungsverbrechen 19451978. They used booby traps, mines, and chemical substances throughout the country. Second, and related, it seems that I often hear about the significance of World War I, among other reasons, for the brutalization of warfare. An order of the military council of the 1st Belorussian Front, signed by Marshal Rokossovsky, ordered the shooting of looters and rapists at the scene of the crime. [47], On 14 June 1941, thousands of people were taken from their homes, loaded onto freight trains and taken to Siberia. Some 20,000 . [68] Most victims were deported to the gulags in the Donetsk region. East Prussia Coat of Arms. During the Kalmyk deportations of 1943, codenamed Operation Ulussy ( ""), the deportation of most people of the Kalmyk nationality in the Soviet Union (USSR), and Russian women married to Kalmyks, but excluding Kalmyk women married to men of other nationalities, around half of all (97-98,000) Kalmyk people deported to Siberia died before being allowed to return home in 1957. Report of an eyewitness: Erika Morgenstern, who survived Knigsberg 1945 as a child (in German): This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 23:45. At one time, listserves promised to break down some of these barriers, but few of them really do. In the cellar of the main train station around 120 Germans were herded into a large storage room and then mowed down with machine guns. Given the delay of publication, there was also little outward censorship, which was fortunate given the political ramifications of atrocity stories in the twentieth century. "[123], According to Richard Overy, the Russians refused to acknowledge Soviet war crimes, partly "because they felt that much of it was justified vengeance against an enemy who committed much worse, and partly it was because they were writing the victors' history. A lot of guys were very drunk. The Soviets slaughtered not only the inhabitans to the last man, woman, and child but French prisoners-of-war too. The deportations were understandably brutal as the result of war crimes committed under the German occupation. So this group blog, from my perspective at least, is a chance to experiment with short-form publishing in which the peer review comes after publication (in the form of responses to the posts, which are always welcome) rather than before. [59], It's estimated that between 10 and 35 thousand prisoners were killed either in prisons or on prison trail to the Soviet Union in the few days after the 22 June 1941 German attack on the Soviets (prisons: Brygidki, Zolochiv, Dubno, Drohobych, and so on). Or, at best 15 . Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. In 2009, Captain Hosenfeld was posthumously honored by the State of Israel for his role in saving Jewish lives during The Holocaust. The fact that these men were whipped by a German baron for driving their horses too hard (and not for raping the locals) says volumes about relations between soldiers and officers, ethnic groups within the Russian army (which had plenty of ethnically German officers in 1914), and the mundane violence of life on the front starting from the very first days of the war. Lines of horse-drawn carts laden with women, children and painstakingly trussed-up . The norms of warfare in the pre-war period served to judge the escalating violence of the war but also to blame the enemy for the worst transgressions, which occurred in various contexts, war on land, invasions and occupations, the home front, war at sea and war in the air. Your email address will not be published. (2001)", Deportations of the Population in 1944-1953, "On This Day 13 January 1991: Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station", Wielkie polowanie: Przeladowania akowcw w Polsce Ludowej, May Katy. [82], Large numbers of kulaks regardless of their nationality were resettled to Siberia and Central Asia. His edited volume of the diary was published in 2008 in the small burg of Kimry (pop. 5.2K 181K views 2 years ago During the Soviet conquest of East Prussia the Red Army behaved very cruel towards the German civilians. Mounting evidence indicates that the Russian Federation's forces are torturing and killing civilians in the cities they capture. German historian Thomas Urban[53] writes that the Soviet policy towards the people who fell under their control in occupied areas was harsh, showing strong elements of ethnic cleansing. War crimes committed by the Russian forces in Ukraine. Pictures show Nazi executions in Poland and Ukraine as well as atrocities by Japanese troops in China in 1937 . by Peter H 15 Nov 2004, 03:37, Post [24] The targets included both collaborators with Germany and the members of anti-Communist resistance movements such as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in Ukraine, the Forest Brothers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and the Polish Armia Krajowa. [174] The Soviet army indiscriminately killed combatants and noncombatants to ensure submission by the local populations. It is well known that in WW1 there were no large scale massacres or persecutions of civilians - from any of the main combatants. Soviet authors Vasily Grossman, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and. Germans parade in Tilsit in 1936 The exhibition was previously shown in Davos during the World Economic Forum in May 2022. The division had received its first baptism. In the wake of a half a century of attempts to have international laws of war and other rules to mitigate its savagery, some held the expectation that European states would and should fight each other without the systematic abusing of civilian populations. Goldsmiths, University of London. A significant number of these incidents occurred in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe recently before, and during, the aftermath of World War II, involving summary executions and the mass murder of prisoners of war, such as in the Katyn massacre and mass rape by troops of the Red Army in territories they occupied. The Morgenthau report stated that some forms of discrimination against Jews were of a political rather than an anti-Semitic nature and it specifically avoided using the term "pogrom", noting that the term's use was applied to a wide range of excesses, and it also had no specific definition. As the Red Army withdrew after the German attack of 1941 which is known as Operation Barbarossa, numerous reports of war crimes committed by Soviet armed forces against captured German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe soldiers from the very beginning of hostilities were documented in thousands of files of the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau which was established by Nazi Germany in September 1939 to investigate violations of the Hague and Geneva conventions by Germany's enemies. For the same reason, I dont really think that World War I brutalized warfare as such in any substantial way. January 1945. After Finland sued for peace, it was forced to return the evacuees. The latter targeted a number of ethnic groups that the Soviet authorities presumed to be hostile to its policies and likely to collaborate with the enemy, including Chechens, Crimean Tatars, and Koreans. [. In a resolution of 22 January 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR declared that the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 19 January, used to impose emergency rule in Baku and military deployment, constituted an act of aggression. [157], Although the Soviet Union had not formally signed the Hague Convention, it considered itself bound by the convention's provisions. This agreement was signed between the USSR and Germany in August 1939; leading first to Lithuania being invaded by the Red Army on 15 June 1940, and then to its annexation and incorporation into the Soviet Union on 3 August 1940. inauthor:"Marcin Zaremba" in Google Books. [146][145][147] Property of the Japanese were also looted by the Soviet soldiers and Chinese. [75][117] According to historian Antony Beevor, following the Red Army's capture of Berlin in 1945, Soviet troops raped German women and girls as young as eight years old. But some women were deeply shaken by what they witnessed in Germany. 30 July 1914. Our lieutenant was killed early on, the soldier Seleznev was killed, and others too. On the second, we stayed in place and went on field patrol. In September 1939, the Red Army invaded eastern Poland and occupied it in accordance with the secret protocols of the MolotovRibbentrop Pact. [16], The pogroms were condemned by the Red Army high command and guilty units were disarmed, while individual pogromists were court-martialed. Some of the atrocities may constitute war crimes, said investigators from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, who examined myriad reports of rapes, abductions and attacks. They dies of starvation and from Gestapo bullets. Women were gang raped by as many as several dozen soldiers during the liberation of Poland. Kolk and Kislyiy lodged a complaint at the European Court of Human Rights, alleging that the Criminal Code of 1946 of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR) was valid at the time, applicable also in Estonia, and that the said Code had not provided for punishment of crimes against humanity. They took away everything they wanted, especially food, clothing and valuables every apartment, shop, bank, etc. We set out from the town of Suvalki and arrived in the village of Motula, where we only paused to eat, and in the evening we marched to the village of Olshanka, where we stood six versts (one verst is 1.06 kilometers js) from the border of East Prussia. There is a clear sense of us versus them, and that the resistance to the German invaders is worthwhile: News from the front is good. Translated by Joshua Sanborn. The facts that he notes rape and looting could equally apply to the German or Russian sides. These last remaining German residents were expelled in more ethnic cleansing of 1949-50. Estimates of the number of rape victims vary from 5,000 to 200,000. Basic Books, 2010. [191], On 27 March 2019, Lithuania convicted 67 former Soviet military and KGB officials who were given sentences of between four and 14 years for the crackdown against Lithuanian civilians in January 1991. 2 . Never before had the light of East Prussia seemed so bright, the sky so high, the countryside so vast, as in 1944, wrote Hans Graf von . In Jul 1946, Knigsberg was renamed Kaliningrad, and Russification of the region began. Wybr i opracowanie Jan Tomasz Gross, Irena Grudziska-Gross. [114] About 22,000 civilians are estimated to have been killed during the fighting in Berlin only. It was an army of rapists," she said. It will be on display at the NATO headquarters from 6 to 15 July. 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