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I wrote in my previous posting that during the war with Hitler, there
were no refugee camps, everybody was accepted by local population and
nobody considered this to be something heroic.  It was normal, period.
I also wrote that there were no rapes among evacuees.  Some people were
questioning, how do I know there were no rapes, since at that time
there was no CNN.  The question says a lot about Americans: they
consider their behaviour as a norm and it does not even cross their
mind that different people behave differently.  Here is how I know.

I shall start with an example.  Everybody knows that during civil war
in Sierra Leone there were numerous cases of limb amputations of
civilians, children were forced to kill their parents.  You may say
that nothing like that ever happened during American civil war.  If
somebody asks you, how do you know, there was no CNN at that time, your
response will be: "I know, because our people just does not do this
kind of things".  So, my response is exactly the same: "I know, because
Soviet people just did not do this kind of things".  There are certain
things, which are typical for English and French and are not typical
for Soviet people.  I give some examples below.

It was not uncommon in the Soviet Union to be awaken in the middle of
night by a drunken voice singing a song in the street at the top of his
lungs, something I never encountered in Canada.  On the other hand,
when I was a little child, I played in the street, without any adult
supervision and no child ever disappeared.  It just did not happen.  I
lived in USSR for 39 years and never was approached by a homosexual.
During the very first month after my arrival to Montreal, someone tried
to grab my crotch in the sauna of the house, where I lived.  You can
imagine my bewilderment.

There was practically no boarding school or orphanage in English or
French countries, where there would be no allegations of sexual abuse
of children.  During 39 years I lived in the USSR, I never heard of a
single case.  It is not that Soviets are extremely sexually attracted
to children and are fighting their desires, the explanation is much
simpler: for a normal person, a child presents no sexual attraction,
period.  If you read Solzhenitsyn, he described many horrors of GOULAG
and you might notice that homosexual rape in jail was not one of them.
On the other hand, numerous postings describe such an even as inherent
in American jails.  Sexual perversion in English and French is much
much greater than in Soviet people, probably more than a thousand to
one.

I never heard of any violent crime in public transport or in elevators.
 Moscow metro was the safest place in town.  I can only guess, why this
was so.  If someone tried to rob a passenger in metro, either the
robbed would scream or other people see it and at least one will jump
the robber, after which others would join and they would not wait for
police to arrive.

A number of years ago, I have read about a woman in New York, who
shouted at the top of her lungs while being raped, everybody heard her
and nobody even bothered to call police.  This kind of event was just
not possible in the USSR.  At the first scream, a crowd of men with
sticks would run after the rapist, and he better start running early,
because if this crowd gets him, he would never walk again and there is
good chance, he would never breath again.

All men had wives and some had daughters, they did not want to
rehabilitate rapists, they did not want rapists walking around, period.
 The above is just my guess, because in 39 years of my life in USSR, I
have not heard of a single woman raped and shouting for help.

All the cases of rape I heard of were "date rapes".  Russians were
quite puritan people back then and sex before marriage was "immoral".
In many cases, sex was consensual, but when it became public knowledge,
the woman started shouting rape and many men went to jail because of
this.

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