Campaigns as Axis?

[David603]

Stalin ruthlessly killed those who were not ethnic Russians. More than 100,000 ethnically Polish civilians were murdered prior to WWII, as too were many Germans who had emigrated to Russia after WWI. People of other nationalities such as Americans who had fled the Great Depression were also persecuted. In my mind there is not much difference between persecuting people because they belong to one specific ethnic group and persecuting people because they have a different ethnic origin to your own.

Russian troops regularly executed captured enemies, including many German pilots, and killed 25,000 Polish officers on Stalin's orders. Around 12-15%(580,000 out of around 4 million) of all prisoners of war taken by the Soviets died in the Gulags (penal labour camps).

Advancing Russian troops looted and pillaged the land of the Axis nations they took, and raped tens if not hundreds of thousands of women.

I am not saying what the Russian did during WWII was unprovoked, or necessarily much worse than what the Germans did, but no one had clean hands during WWII and the Germans tend to get isolated as if what they did was greatly worse than everyone else's behaviour.