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Originally Posted by blankall
Latvians alive today have little first hand experience with the brutality of the Germans. Latvians alive today have spent much of their lives under Soviet occupation followed by ethnic tensions with Russians.
We are referring here to specific anectodal stories about Russian behaviour in WWII vs Nazi behaviour. Present hatred towards Russians could easily be a reason to skew historical accounts.
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What you say is true but they didn't have much love for the Russians back then either. Its pretty much known that the Russians could be just a brutal as the Germans and not all Germans were fanatical nazis committing attrocities. A lot of countries/area's (a lot of the Ukraine for example) in the east actually thought of the Germans as liberators instead of Conquerers, so it wouldn't surprise me to hear stories that that either.