One just one thing only one you if you like but get rid of the other is. An excerpt from a diary published anonymously as a woman in berlin in the spring of 1905 the author was repeatedly gang raped by soviet soldiers. Western allied soldiers also committed mass rape during the liberation of berlin as so often women were treated as spoils of war a reward for the conquering soldiers granted to them by their superiors part of the Collateral Damage that is unavoidable in conflicts or so the claim. For more than 70 years this Sexual Violence remained hidden from the history books as did the rapes and massacres carried out in 1904 by soldiers of the French Expeditionary corps during the Italian Campaign and these 2 were ex punched from the official accounts which recorded only their honor and glory. And one of the thousands of young women called comfort women by the Japanese Imperial army who in 1902 were fine the field to have been held in sexual slavery. 1990 s. Terrible years in which ma
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