The soldiers of the Red Army, and the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union who armed and fed them, allowed their dictatorial masters to commit crimes –&nbsp;and committed crimes themselves. But these crimes fall short by an order of magnitude of the great service to humanity –&nbsp;and especially to western European humanity –&nbsp;that they gave in the rubble along the Volga River 70 years ago this fall.
红军战士，以及武装和给养他们的苏联工人和农民，允许他们的独裁领导犯下罪行，他们自己也犯下了罪行。但这些罪行和他们70年前在伏尔加河畔对人类——特别是对西欧人——做出的贡献一比不值一提。