>>2826345Again, if you actually read the paper, you would see that it simply says the exact numbers cannot be established reliably because the statistical basis is weak, and that even the numbers you cited are themselves extrapolations based on occupation children in west Germany. Problems like survivorship bias and limited sampling naturally arises, as the dataset excludes refugees, Germans in east Germany (which was where the Soviet occupation zone was located), Slavs and other peoples from areas of Europe under Soviet occupation.
Moreover, the Soviet occupation zone and the areas conquered first by the Red Army experienced the heaviest fighting, mass refugee movements, collapse conditions, and largest population displacements. Comparing West German occupation-child data directly across armies is methodologically flawed, something which Gebhardt herself warns. Wonder why you omitted it.
As for for the dispute, the broad scholarly consensus beyond the censored Russian academia under Putin’s regime is that despite all allied forces committing rape that were only prosecuted after 1945, the Soviets by and large committed it the most, with the contention being the quantification of said occurrences, and there are good reasons to believe so.
Honestly your apologetics is disingenuous and can be used to justify the actions of the Wehrmacht in the same way, especially given that there’s less documentary evidence for rapes committed by the Wehrmacht on the eastern front compared to that of the Soviets in eastern and central Europe.
Now, does that indict the anti-fascist war effort? Obviously no, in fact it just shows how even under the most strenuous conditions the red army came out at the top, and for that they should be honored. But pretending they weren’t Bronze Age pilled based gigachad bersekers shows how coddled y’all are to think that war is this nice little trip to the park, as opposed to being literal hell for those on the ground.