Как утверждает в своей новой книге военный историк Энтони Бивор (Anthony Beevor), оргия изнасилований в Красной Армии в дни агонии нацистской Германии имела куда более широкие масштабы, чем подозревалось ранее. Г-н Бивор, автор бестселлера "Сталинград", говорит, что наступавшие советские войска изнасиловали большое количество русских и польских женщин, которые были узниками концентрационных лагерей, а также миллионы немок. Размах недисциплинированности и развращенности Красной Армии выявился, когда автор изучал советские архивы для написания своей книги "Берлин", которая должна быть опубликована в апреле с.г. издательством "Viking".
`Red Army soldiers don't believe in "individual liaisons" with German
women,' wrote the playwright Zakhar Agranenko in his diary when
serving as an officer of marine infantry in East Prussia. `Nine, ten, twelve
men at a time - they rape them on a collective basis.'
Numerous examples of gang rape were given - `girls
under eighteen and old women included'. In fact victims could be as
young as twelve years old. `The NKVD group attached to the 43rd
Army discovered that German women who had stayed behind in Schpaleiten
had tried to commit suicide', the report continued. `They interrogated
one of them called Emma Korn. "On 3 February," she told them,
"frontline troops of the Red Army entered the town. They came into the
cellar where we were hiding and pointed their weapons at me and the other
two women and ordered us into the yard. In the yard twelve soldiers in
turn raped me. Other soldiers did the same to my two neighbours. The
following night six drunken soldiers broke into our cellar and raped us in
front of the children. On 5 February, three soldiers came, and on 6 February
eight drunken soldiers also raped and beat us."' Three days later the
women tried to kill the children and themselves by cutting all their wrists,
but evidently they had not known how to do it properly