Originally Posted by
The Bosniak
World War I made World War II possible in almost every way. From the causes and attitudes to Hitler himself who served in WWI.
As for the Soviets, they were worse then Germans. Complete animals.
One thing you can say about the Wehrmacht (the regular German army) is that they were a professional army of beasts. The best army in the world at the time. These weren't all some horrible evil Nazis, just soldiers doing fighting a war that at the time didn't have this mythical "evil" aura as we see it today. The Waffen SS is what ave rise to most of the "evil" war criminal shit. The point is, even at their worst, these were "gentlemen" for lack of a better word.
While the Soviets were nothing but a pack of hicks with guns. Most of the battles they had against Germany, they won only by having endless hordes of bodies to throw at them. They could never even BEGIN to compete with the Germans in military skill or quality of individual soldiers. They just had endless resources and complete disregard for their own people.
When they took Berlin, they raped everything in sight.
Soveit Union is responsible for more direct civilian deaths and crimes then Germany and Stalin is worse then Hitler.