http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/01/news.features11Natalya Gesse, a close friend of the scientist Andrei Sakharov, had observed the Red Army in action in 1945 as a Soviet war correspondent. "The Russian soldiers were raping every German female from eight to eighty," she recounted later. "It was an army of rapists." I doubt that, at least the degree being claimed. But it doesn't matter really. They had the right, there is nothing to talk about, period. In fact, Germany got off cheaply.