Is there any information on the number of RUSSIAN soldiers shot for cowardice in the Battle of Berlin?

Question

In what is clearly the last action of a war, the soldiers of the winning side often commit themselves a bit less than before, because no-one wants to get killed or risk getting killed, when he can see that surviving for a few hours will give him the rest of his life. Behind them, the Russians had the NKVD to deal with such behaviour in the well-known Stalinist fashion. So is there any information about the number of Russians shot for hanging back at the last moment?

Answer 1

Well not absolutely certain, but I know there was over 8000 killed for cowardice during the Battle for Moscow, so I would think a slighlty lesser number, probably 4-5000?!?

Answer 2

I should imagine exact figures would be hard to come by.
The Nazis were actually fairly fastidious in keeping records of the amount of people they murdered, whereas I would think the Stalinist government would be more likely in a state of denial that any of their soldiers were afraid and were thus shot.
Besides which, enormous amounts of soldiers and civilians were killed in Berlin, I'm not sure casualty figures wouldn't just be lumped in together.
You are looking at roughly 80, 000 Russian soldiers killed during the battle.

Answer 3

I like this question. If there is information this is going against the propaganda/gloryifying route that the Soviets took in all matters relating to their great existence, which was the case at hte time. Doubt there are actual records.

Answer 4

Are you fishing or do you have some information that this did happen?

Answer 5

I couldn't honestly tell you, but I'll bet it was a ton.