When the Soviet Union launched a general offensive against Germany, the battle situation on the Western Front had become less important. Not only the Germans, but also the Western Allies were paying attention to the Soviet Union's final battle. <-> If I have to say something, the Western Front at this moment is just clanging and clanking, happily accepting German prisoners of war, while the Eastern Front is firing thousands of guns at this moment, fighting bloody battles with Germany in Berlin.
After fighting for several days, there was no battle worth talking about, so we followed the large army and stopped advancing dozens of kilometers away from Berlin. Of course, this was because Stalin of the Soviet Union asked the Communist Party to take Berlin, and General Eisenhower then agreed to Stalin's request.
Staying in the woods, dozens of kilometers away from Berlin, Germany, we seemed to be able to vaguely hear the roar of artillery fire on the battlefield in Berlin. John curled his lips and said: "Listen to the sound of artillery, the Germans are resisting really fiercely!"
Lin Bernard grinned and said happily: "Haha, this is enough to make the Soviet devils uncomfortable!"
John nodded and said: "I heard that the Soviet devils killed a lot of people. It is said that a company of people taught the German soldiers who resisted that there were only a few people left!"<
Bernard Lin gritted his teeth, took a breath and said, "I wonder how the Soviet devils will take revenge after taking Berlin!"
John immediately said: "Needless to say, what the Soviet devils have done since they entered East Prussia has already proved it!"
I said calmly: "Just watch, the Berliners' nightmare is about to come!"
In fact, the destructive desire shown by the Soviet Red Army since it entered East Prussia is absolutely frightening. It has far exceeded the limit of forcibly tearing down civilian furniture to light fires in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and other countries. Although they burned down the houses that gave them warmth and shelter at night, we could be forgiven for the fact that it was the icy winter. But after entering Germany, when they found that the living standards on German farms far exceeded their imagination, they became extremely angry, perhaps because they did not understand why Germany, which was already so wealthy, would invade their motherland and destroy it. their home.
When I discussed this issue with Anna. I just said: "Maybe this is people's jealous nature!"
Of course, many years later a Soviet soldier recorded in his diary an old sapper¡¯s impression of the Germans when talking to his captain:
"Comrade Captain, how should we treat them? Just think about it, they are living well enough, with plenty of food, livestock, vegetable gardens and apple trees. They want to invade us, and even their iron hooves have stepped into our hometown of Voronezh. For this, comrade captain, we should strangle them to death." The old engineer paused and continued: "I'm sorry for the children, comrade captain. Although they are German children."
The Soviet government, of course, wanted to avoid Stalin being blamed for the disaster of 1941 and had been trying to make the Soviet people feel guilty that they had allowed their motherland to be invaded. no doubt. To compensate for these repressed feelings of guilt, soldiers used more violence in their revenge, but much of the violence was motivated by too direct a message.
Dmitry, a political officer of the Third Army, admitted that they were very angry at the abundance seen everywhere in Germany. They also resented the orderly German family life. He himself said:
¡°I like to use my fists to break the neatly arranged bottles and jars.¡±
Red Army soldiers were surprised to find that many Germans had radios in their homes. The Soviet soldiers were not fools. Their eyes told them that the Soviet Union was not a paradise for workers and farmers, and that everything the government said was lies. The East Prussian farms created a mixture of confusion, jealousy, envy, and anger in the soldiers that worried Soviet political officers.
The concerns of the political departments of various Soviet armies. This was confirmed in the reports of the postal inspectors of Stalin's secret police, who marked negative aspects in blue and positive aspects in red. Stalin's secret police took steps to more closely scrutinize soldiers' letters home, hoping to control the way soldiers described civilian life in Germany to their families and reduce the number of "wrong political conclusions" drawn from such descriptions. but. Things were not so completely locked down, Stalin's secret police were horrified to discover that their soldiers were mailing German postcards to their homes, some of which even bore "anti-Soviet slogans from Hitler's speeches" printed on them. This forced the Political Department to at least provide soldiers with clean stationery.
In those middle-class houses in Germany. Clocks, china, mirrors and pianos were smashed to pieces by Red Army soldiers, who thought the previous owners were German aristocrats. A Soviet female military doctor wrote in a letter home from the outskirts of K?nigsberg: "You can't imagine how many valuable things the soldiers destroyed and burned.62f;In Poland, Soviet soldiers collectively stole farmers' corn seeds and slaughtered the only livestock the Germans had lost. In Lithuania, soldiers were willing to poke honeycombs to satisfy their own sugar cravings - many of them had their hands and faces stung red and swollen.
The well-run and well-stocked farms of East Prussia simply became their dream paradise. The cows whose udders were squeezed and swollen ran away howling miserably, but they were quickly shot and turned into steaks. One soldier wrote: "The people here fled desperately and left everything to us, and now we have so much pork, food and sugar that we can't eat it all."
Although the Soviet government was well aware of what kind of punishment East Prussia had received, they still seemed unhappy because they found that the Germans had fled and the countryside and towns were almost deserted. The Chairman of Stalin's Secret Police of the 2nd Belorussian Front reported to the Chairman of the Central Committee Aleksandarov: "There are almost no Germans left here Many houses are abandoned." He also gave some examples, there are There are only six or seven people left in the village, and there are only fifteen people left in a small town with a history of 45 years. "Noble Revenge" sparked the largest immigration wave in history. Between January 12 and mid-February 1945, approximately 8.5 million Germans fled their homes in the eastern provinces.
Poor Germans, they were tortured miserably by the Soviets! (To be continued.)