Wien (und Ostösterreich) wurde vor 80 Jahren im April 1945 von den Sowjets gefangen genommen. Allein in Wien vergewaltigte die Rote Armee zwischen 70.000 und 100.000 Frauen. Sammlung von 20 einzigartigen Fotos aus der Zeit. Bitte verzeihen Sie die Qualität einiger von ihnen – verursacht durch ihre geringe Auflösung und Reddits Zoom.
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Von RunAny8349
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I didn’t write liberated or freed as it’s considered controversial.
I fully realise that the Soviets paid with their blood to win the war. Around 24 000 000 died.
Some were heroes, some were savages… without them and their sacrifice the World would be lost to the nazis.
The Soviets were supported by the 1st Bulgarian Army. Around 70 000 soldiers from both sides died in Vienna alone.
Main source: [https://www.o5m6.de/redarmy/battleofvienna.php](https://www.o5m6.de/redarmy/battleofvienna.php)
Flaktower still standing in Vienna ( Augarten )
https://preview.redd.it/atsb2sw36sue1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=928798393fa66e0a8a0d7d0876892826264aa6cb
We all thought that’s over for good … but that’s happening in the Ukraine right now…again.
My father was a child at that time. He says he still remembers how the women cried and how terrified they were.
Damn those two guys in the tank look young…
These pictures make me feel nostalgic, sad and impressed at the same time. The generation of people living through those times had to endure one of the worst periods of human history. And now, so many of the lessons back then seem almost completely forgotten within our current western society. I guess I can only hope my generation and the ones afterward will be as good in rebuilding as they were, but hopefully better in retaining the lessons learned.
Der Standard hat seit mehreren Wochen einen Liveticker dazu. Der ist sehr empfehlenswert!
They did not capture anything… the soviets literally freed us!
They paid an unbelievable price fighting of the fascists!
Not captured, freed.
Don’t get me wrong, the Soviets were not the good guys, they were still barbaric soldiers, and they committed a lot of crimes.
But they still freed Vienna and Eastern Austria from the Nazi regime.
At the very least (according to my Grandma, who was alive back then and living in Eastern Austria), the Russians apparently were pretty nice to children – but the older girls did have to hide, especially from the mongolian divisions. Overall, though, the people were grateful.
The war was over. The regime was gone. And that’s why many places in Eastern Austria honor the Soviet soldiers who freed us back then/fell while doing so.
(and just to clarify: this history does not mean we should tolerate what Russia is doing currently; and it does not mean we should omit the atrocities Soviet soldiers committed back then)
Ther freed the land from the nazi regime and did not captures anything
Interesting to note: the tanks on the second picture are US M4A3 (76) W Lend-Lease Shermans
Soviet Union wasn’t any better than the regime they defeated in the WW2… same concentration camps, same tortures and corruption, widespread antisemitism and xenophobia, and mass executions under the aegis of class equalizing (flavor is different, though, not „racial cleansing“ but „class cleansing“).