Critics about data concerning amount of rapes by Soviet soldiers

This article doesn't look really objective. There is a mention of a specific "Russian culture" which is surely patriarchal. Communist after they came to power gave a lot of rights to women. For example, USSR became the 1st country in the world that gave rights for abortion a right that in some countries of the civilized "Western World" (USA) is still restricted! Also, there is basically no critics for the studies mentioned in the article despite the fact that there are enough historians that indicated deficiency in the mentioned researches. Thus, most of the estimates that says millions of rapes are based on the book of Helke Sander and Barbara Johr. However, if you check how did they get these results, you'll see that they took data from single Berlin hospital (there were data if the woman was raped and if the father is Russian). They decided that if the father is Russian then the woman was raped (about 10% of cases based on data). Then, they said that in the entire Germany situation was exactly the same as in this single hospital! I believe that it's not good source based on authority (CRAAP) therefore even if you shall mention it you must show that there serious doubts about quality of this research! Next, this data about 100000 abortions after rape in Berlin. First of all it's not strictly 100000, but 20000 to 100000. Secondly, if the woman stated that she was raped the abortion was free. All she had to provide was written statement. Some historians (Antina Grossman) found several patterns in these statements that indicate that att least some of them were false. All the mentioned sources are already exist and used in the russian page of wikipedia https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Насилие_в_отношении_мирного_населения_Германии_в_конце_Второй_мировой_войны#Оценки_числа_изнасилованных. Hope, you'll soon correct the english article so, that readers would be provided with more correct information! Egor Bilialov (talk) 21:51, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What does abortion have to do with this article? 161.29.89.201 (talk) 01:15, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Eyewitness Account Section has unexplained and unchallenged focus on shifting blame to Asian, Khazak, and Mongolian Soldiers from Western Soviet Men

In the "Eyewitness Accounts and Anti-Soviet Propoganda" section, there seems to be an non-contextualized and frankly disturbing focus on characterizing the rapes as being primarily perpetrated by Asian, Khazak, and Mongol men. The evidence for this narrative seems quite scant given the egregiousness with which the article focuses on shifting the blame onto those specific populations away from Russian + West Soviet perpetrators. 24.56.244.130 (talk) 09:48, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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"though vast majority of Kalmyk male population fought heroically in the ranks of the Soviet Red Army."

This should probably be changed to something less dramatic, also should be "though a vast" Ballfondler1976 (talk) 23:10, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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This text needs to be removed it’s blatantly false that German fathers made their daughters give birth to rape babies at all that’s completely absurd and made up it doesn’t even make any sense because of “dishonor” that is insane i don’t know who the hell wrote that also German men did not shoot women for getting raped that’s equally as insane and to act like any sizable portion of German men were berating the women for getting raped is also completely ridiculous 2600:1702:4590:1D20:9AB:21F1:77AD:9620 (talk) 15:41, 5 March 2025 (UTC) although some were forced to by their fathers because of their "dishonor", while others were shot and killed by their husbands for "consenting to sexual relations with Allied soldiers". Many German women were verbally abused by German soldiers on the streets or in their homes for being "Allied whores", while a lot of them even received threatening letters from German men.[reply]

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This paragraph needs to be removed no where is there any evidence that suggest that German women were getting abortions because of “socioeconomic reasons” that’s completely made up and ridiculous they literally got raped by mainly Russians but also some central Asians there reason for getting an abortion wasn’t because they “couldn’t afford it” that’s entirely made up and laughably ridiculous 2600:1702:4590:1D20:9AB:21F1:77AD:9620 (talk) 15:46, 5 March 2025 (UTC) It was also typical that women specified their reasons for abortions as being mostly socio-economic (inability to raise another child), rather than moral or ethical[reply]

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