No, actually, according to Antony Beevor's book, that was the truth.Dinochrome wrote:I've got a Soviet-made Gem stop-watch that was apparently made for the Red Army; the package was airtight-sealed and had some military markings. I use it for timing my radiation-background counts. Works fine. As for wrist-watches; was it a stereotype that Red Army looters in Germany were always looking for watches?
They'd strip corpses of any valuables.
At Stalingrad, they took boots, too, sometimes.