anti-German bigotry

Putin makes it a crime to deny Nuremberg fantasies

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that makes it a crime to deny Nazi war crimes May 05, 2014The law Putin signed on May 5 introduces punishment of up to five years in prison or a fine of some 500,000 rubles (some $14,000) for anyone found guilty of denying facts established by the Nuremberg trials regarding the crimes of Axis powers.The law also punishes those who knowingly disseminate "false information about the Soviet activities" during World War II. The signing of the law comes as Russia is drawing comparisons between Ukrainian nationalists and Nazi war crimes and ahead

World War II double standard

By Michael HoffmanFrom a review of the book After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation (2009) by Giles MacDonogh:"This absorbing study of the Allied occupation of Germany and Austria from 1945 to 1949 shows that the end of WWII by no means ended the suffering. A vengeful Red Army visited on German women an ordeal of mass rape, while looting the Soviet occupation zone of almost everything of value, from watches to factories.