The Humiliation of Bradley Manning. Had he only checked first to see if he meet with Whistleblower

[Cleita]

57. I know about that and probably it was

a stupid thing to say. However, before that the Germans treated the Russians they took prisoner awfully and tortured and killed thousands of them before Hitler got the crazy idea of going to Stalingrad. Hitler hated Slavs of any sort. My husband was friends with a German at his job who survived Stalingrad. They mostly starved and froze to death. He spoke of stacking the frozen corpses as bunkers to hide behind. Of course the Russians were very much into revenge when they closed in on Germany in the final stages of the war so the rape and pillage was not pretty. However, since I'm old enough to have talked to survivors from Germany from that era, I don't ever remember stories about Russians patrolling the streets of German cities shooting civilians for fun and sport. It may have happened but I never saw accounts written down about it nor talked to people who had been through the war in Europe who witnessed that.

I also, knew a Dutch girl who survived a Japanese concentration camp with her mother and sister in Indonesia. That was not pretty either. I guess I've lived too long. I never thought I would live to see the day that we are evil empire.