War and Ideology

I want to pass along a story I heard recently from a 92-year-old friend of mine who was 10 years old when the Russians drove the Nazis out of his home country, Hungary.

He lived in a small village outside a city that the Russians were bombing, sending up flares called ‘the Stalin lights’ to illuminate the target. The boys of the village gathered to look at the Stalin lights and when they returned to the village, Russian soldiers were raping the women.

My friend hid in a barn where later a Soviet officer dragged a young woman to rape her.

She begged him not to and showed him a Communist Party badge which she had kept throughout the Nazi occupation. If she had been caught with it, she would have been executed.

The officer threw the badge out the window and raped her anyway.

I can’t tell you what to make of this story; I’m just passing it along.