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The Fall Of Berlin
The Soviet advance on Berlin was a massive, ruthless affair. Popularized in the Russian media as a do-or-die fight for the motherland and a final push into the ‘lair of the fascist beast’, it involved over two and half million Soviet troops, many of whom were directly affected by Nazi atrocities during their earlier advance into Russia. That, combined with a loose chain of command once the war was won, resulted in some of the worst civilian atrocities of the war. 

Rape was by far the most commonly-reported of them all, as over 100,000 German women – and in some cases children – were subjected to all degrees of sexual violence in the initial days of the occupation. Over 10,000 of the victims ended up committing suicide, according to aid groups on the ground, though many of the actual figures remain classified in Russian military archives. 
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