my svoeekh nye brasayem
Все правильно.
The Soviet Union didn't let Poland go after Stalin died.
We let you go later, didn't we? We let everyone else go too.
It's hard to think of another example of country that bloodlessly relinquished an entire empire, and didn't ask for anything in return. Britain and France gave away their possessions, screaming and kicking, and only after it became impossible to resist the United States and the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev may have been a galactic scale moron, but he did do the things I described above. You should pray to his ghost before bed.
I never hated the German army
Same. They were mostly too busy fighting and dying at the front, and didn't have the time or opportunity to terrorize innocent people.
Not to be compared to the vampires that moved in the rear of the German army, practically never did any fighting, but instead were specialists at torching villages and executing women and kids.
SS and Auschwitz guards are another matter
First of all - volunteers. Second - f*cking fanatics.
Any kind of a fanatic should be avoided.