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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Totally agree. In this context, and other contexts like when people say that NATO or the USA killed civilians too. Yeah, for sure civilian casualties and sexual assaults happen far too often in war, but there is a huge difference between making it part of your war effort and something that unfortunately happens, but you try to minimize.
I will defend Russia only to the extent that I think it is wrong for some people to imply that it is something pathological about being Russian. I believe it is systemic, and perhaps cultural to the degree that historical violence and trauma can shape a culture. These things can be turned around if the will is there however.
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My assumption would be that its more prevalent where there are strong de-humanizing of the opponents or even superiority of your own side vs the others.