Campaigns as Axis?

[Anton Yudintsev]

Originally Posted by guiltyspark

to deny it is silly

There is difference, between a crime commited by a person, and a crime commited by a government.
One - happen all the time, nowdays.
A lot of people being killed all the time, and most of them - not in a war (Iraq, Afganistan, or whatever). Most of them are being killed with a knife at home, are being robbered, or whatever.
Some of crimes are committed by soldiers.
But if they are being punished for that (and Soviet soldiers were EXECUTED for that. It is far more than what is done to most of the rapists nowdays), than it is not official, and it is not governmental war crome.
Axis, on the other hand, officially have given orders to kill (and not just execute. They made experiments on them, they haven't feed them, they use gas, etc) a lot of people (millions), just because they were of the other race.

That's uncomparable to personal violation of order or casualties. That's inexcusable.

And, btw, there was Nurnberg's trial about that, so there is nothing to discuss.
All Stalin's crimes (and yeah, there were Stalin's orders to kill citizens) were against Soviet people, not against German - and Germany was aggressor, so that could be an excuse.