Based on all the historians I have seen talking about that time period, the Russians captured and sent every German they could get their hands to labor camps du

Based on all the historians I have seen talking about that time period, the Russians captured and sent every German they could get their hands to labor camps during the later part of world war 2. An approximate two to three million German prisoners was captured during those years and about 1 million died in the camps. The documentary The World at War postulated that the only reason why its not higher is that when the Germans had lost and started retreating most of the east German population fled in mass to the west because they know the USSR would treat them very similar to how the Nazi treated Russians during the occupation. About 10 million USSR civilians died and about 26 millions in total so the USSR had a lot of reasons. I have not heard any historian that claimed that USSR did not pursue revenge. I have heard however that the only reason Berlin was not razed to the ground was because allied troops rushed there hastily during the siege in order to be able to claim half of it after the war.