Prague 1945

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Czech woman kisses Soveit soldier.

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Osmar White, an Australian journalist in Prague 1945:

"...The discipline of the Red Army is good. There is no more looting, rape or bullying than in any zone of occupation. Wild stories of brutality arise from magnification and distortion of individual instances, given verisimilitude by the Czechs' nervousness of the Russian soldiers' exuberant manners and their liking for vodka.'
One woman who told me the most hair-raising tales of Russian brutality in Prague was forced in the end to admit that the only evidence she had seen with her own eyes was drunken Russian officers firing pistols into the air or shooting at bottles.”

(Conquerors' Road: An Eyewitness Account of Germany 1945 (http://books.google.com/books?id=tWy1sBizZqkC&pg=PP1&dq=White+Osmar+Conquerors'+Road:+An+Eyewitness+Rep ort+of+Germany+1945&hl=ru&ei=JGh3TanSJdTg4Aa6t6iyCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=8&sqi=2&ved=0CFEQ6wEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false)