In Treptower Park on the outskirts of Berlin, there is a statue of a Soviet soldier grasping a sword in one hand and a small German girl in the other while he stamps on a broken swastika.
This is the final resting place for 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet troops who fell in the Battle of Berlin. The inscription inside the shrine-like pedestal says the Soviet people saved European civilisation from Fascism.
But some call this memorial the Tomb of the Unknown Rapist. Stalinâ??s troops assaulted an uncounted number of women as they fought their way into the Third Reich.
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