Obviously it can't be. But if you want to hear some other opinions... you can read this.

According to Oleg Rzheshevsky, a President of the Russian Association of World War II Historians, only 4,148 Red Army officers and many soldiers were convicted of atrocities. He explains crimes such as acts of sexual assault as inevitable parts of war, and men of Soviet and other Allied armies committed them. However, in general, he says Soviet servicemen treated peaceful Germans with humanity.

Makhmut Gareev states that he had not even heard about sexual violence. He says that "instances of cruelty, including sexual, occurred", and that they "simply could not be absent after what the Nazis did" in the USSR, but also states that "such cases were strongly suppressed and punished," and that "they did not become widespread." He notes that the Soviet military leadership signed an executive order on 19 January 1945 that demanded the prevention of cruel treatment of the local population.

And, suddenly, you can find words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Wikipedia. Who also wrote in his books that Stalin kill more than 100 million people in the USSR. He also lied about many other things and it's proven. So, it's clear for me that Soviet soldiers was not monsters. My grandparents are good men. And I will never believe people who say that they were rapist or killing monsters. Screw that. They lost their brothers, they lost their moms, sisters, they facing death to save the country and (in future) life of my dad and my life. And now, after the 70 years, bastards began to scream that soviet soldiers were bad, unpolite, rapist and etc. As i said, screw that!

Wow, that means that I can't change your mind. Because, you know, I've heard a lot of bad things about Stalin's time and even cases when people was arrested or killed because of literally nothing, but I do not trust him cuz I still didn't see any of files and have no friends/relatives who can proove fact about gulags. So, since that I think it's clear that you have a great reason to believe in all that bad things about Stalin and I have a nice reason to disagree with you. Not because you or me are brainwashed, but because we saw a literally diffrenet proofs before. But it was a nice to talk to you.

Yeah, that is what people call propaganda. Nobody going to tell you in UK that they support Hitler at the beginning but they will tell you about Gulag. Why Russians can't do the same? So, you can see our propaganda without pacted with hitler but with a lot of good memories insead of it. Have a nice time watching!

Nice add! Thanks you!

I see what you did here

How do you know? Did you saw their probable causes? Did you saw the files of prisoners? Who tell you that?

And one more thing. You can believe it or you can ignore it. I do not care. I live in Russia and no one from my big family (mom's parents have like gazillion kids, brothers and sisters and father's too) no one was sitting in the prison or camp. In fact, my great-grandad was a kulak (people like to tell that Stalin arrested all kulaks), my grandad was religious man and had a bad thoughts about Jospeh Vessarionovich. And they say that they didn't heard anything about Gulags or Camps until the 90s and so-called freedom of speech. I think that is the best example of how "Bad-bad Stalin surpression".

Funny fact, but the largest anti-soviet liar (Alexandr Solzhenitcyn) was sponsored by USA and printed in... YMCA. Great, right? Tell me more about financed propaganda =)

You can base on facts when you really saw them. You can base on facts, when you have a right statistics. You can base on facts, when you was in the same situation. I mean that of course there were camps and gulags in USSR. Of course there were a people inside and I can agree that sometimes conditions wasn't royal (like in US correctional facilities lol). But it wasn't as big as you may think. And it wasn't so bloody. Nobody will arrest you just because you think different. People were arrested because of money, power and law-crossing. That's what I believe.
 
That is what I'm talking about! I agree with you and with your opinion about strong hand. I'm just sick of people who call Russia's strong hand as totalitarian gulag system.

How many people was arrested? Oh, 1.5 million according to  the wikipedia. Here is global research for you about the USA. http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-prison-population-dwarfs-that-of-other-nations/8801
It has 751 people in prison or jail for every 100,000 in population. So, if population of USA is 320 million and it has 751 in prison or jail for every 100,000 it means that 2.4 million people are sitting nowadays in USA.. Got it? 1.5 vs. 2.4

So why the time when 1.5 million people are arested in USSR called "Great Purge" and the same situation in USA, when the number of people is 2.4 million, called democracy? What is that? Double standards? 

Correctional facilities was invented not by communists. Also why you didn't mentioned trusty system? Or the conditions of prisoners in US was bearable? Don't kidding me.

Lol, typical ungrounded comment. Provided by haters

Hello, guys.

Here is the nice short movie about Russian "occupy". I think that you would be interesting in that and I hope we will start a great discussion and will share our opinions.

Eng subtitles availible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65SwzHAbes

P.S. I'm not the author of the video, I'm just a guy who is sitting on this forum everyday and now decided to share something with you.