Assertion: wartime rape | /r/LocatedNear | decades of silence
Facets:
value: until soviet writings
type: TEMPORAL
value: until western historians
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The wartime rapes had been surrounded by decades of silence.
text: It has been frequently repeated that the wartime rapes were surrounded by decades of silence or, until relatively recently, ignored by academics, with the prevailing attitude being that the Germans were the perpetrators of war crimes, Soviet writings speaking only of Russian liberation and German guilt, and Western historians concentrating on the details of the Holocaust.