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Russia's Russia's war crimes in Ukraine are

Russia's war crimes in Ukraine are being revealed as its military is pushed back.

In the key of suburbs, evidence of summary executions, torture, and rape are being revealed.

All countries are guilty of war crimes, but Russia deserves special mention for its actions in the last hundred years.

At the end of World War II and the occupation of Germany immediately thereafter, at least 2 million German women were

raped by Russian soldiers, along with other atrocities on the most brutal front of the war. In the Afghan war, Russia was infamous for using landmines that looked

like toys so that kids would pick them up, and in Chechnya, more rape, bombardment of civilians, and executions.

Joining us to talk about this cheery topic today is Professor Amir Viner of Stanford.

He studies the Soviet Union and Russia and their way of war. Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you.

The scenes from Boucha are so raw. Were you surprised by what you saw at all?

Not at all, regrettably, not at all, because these things happen, not necessarily because there

is any genetic Russian code for atrocities, but very often this what happens under two conditions, one, when your plan A is the only plan and it fails and you are beaten up or at least have to withdraw and the frustration that builds up among troops that are also under prepared, certainly under equipped, and there also seems to be also hungry in some cases and the rage that they are taking on the second condition of

entanglement with civilians.

It's a recipe for disaster for any army to fight among civilians. It is much worse when it happens when an army is not getting its goal does not achieve its immediate delusional goal of a Blitzkrieg overwhelming the

opponents and that's what happened. What is more disturbing in this case, even more than the usual, is that these atrocities

are partly started very early, very early, and that is something that sends shields in our spines that why it started so early this hatred towards a population that did not open its arms to you.

That's something that is very disturbing.

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