1942: Josef Stalin who, through his propaganda minister, Ilya Ehrenburg, encourages the rape and degradation of the German civilian population: His writings were circulated among millions of Soviet soldiers in leaflets:
“There is nothing as beautiful as a German corpse. Kill the Germans! – your old mother begs you, kill the Germans! – your child pleads. Germans are not humans, they are wild beasts.”
“There is nothing as beautiful as a German corpse. Kill the Germans! – your old mother begs you, kill the Germans! – your child pleads. Germans are not humans, they are wild beasts.”