Now that the Cold War / WWIII is over the Russians have come clean (er) about Berlin.

Namely, that their losses approximated 600,000 men — taken in well under a week of operations.

Why so high? Stalin feared a victorious Red Army — so he ordered Zhukov to shell Koniev even as the battle was under way.

After the campaign was over, Bradley submitted his Order of Battle over to the Russians so that they could know who was their opposite number. He was very surprised to find that the Russians would not reciprocate. Now we know why.

Raping Germans was an official order from the top: Stalin.