Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy

Do we think when a Russian unit commits atrocity, an execution of civilians in a Ukrainian village, does that actually renders evil? I don't know if it's possible to get into the mind of evil, right? But there is a long record of anguish, fear. A lot of atrocities are committed out of fear by your senior leadership. You must do X, Y, and Z, or you'll die, or you will be punished. So there's an enormous amount of atrocities that are inflicted in part through fear.