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Dear Stan,
there are several imprecisions in that:
the works of Freud were not completely banned in 60-es and 70-es,
it was a strange rule that his works published before 1917
in Russia were accessible in big libraries (e.g., Public Library
in Leningrad, University Library) without any special permission;
the Red Army didn't go to Berlin through East Prussia. Konigsberg
and East Prussia was a separate pocket, and the stories about
massive rape concern mostly this military operation, not all
military operations of Red Army (why - I don't know; I think
that Soljenytzin participated in this battle in East Prussia
as an officer and mentions somewhere that he tried to protest or
forbid his men this sort of behavior; soon afterwards he was
arrested because of some letter critical to Stalin)
Other remarks -
in France all women that were "collaborating" with Nazis were
treated after "liberation" quite brutally, and this had also
a strong sexual streak -
what about Wilhelm Reich? There is his famous book about sexual
oppression under Nazis (but he was banned - suppressed also by Freud
himself, as a charlatan)
Could Nabokov have in mind Wilhelm Reich? Quite well known person,
from Wien as well.
All the best
Sergei Soloviev