For years, Soviet propaganda had been pounding into the heads of citizens how the Red Army was enthusiastically welcomed everywhere as a liberator. The fact that the soldiers also pillaged and systematically raped women was not mentioned, for obvious reasons.
The doctor, however, made a note in her diary: "There were twenty-five of them. Fifteen nuns were raped and killed outright by the Russians, the other ten were raped repeatedly. Some forty times, others up to fifty."
The story later caught the attention of the French director Anne Fontaine, who based it on the 2016film The Innocents. "These historical facts may not shed a good light on Soviet soldiers, but it is the truth; a truth that the Russian authorities refuse to publish, even though several historians know about these events," the director pointed out. Full story>
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