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I dont totally know the history here but just to be clear, the Red Army did this no more than the Western allies did correct?
To add to what others are saying, claiming that the enemy army is training their soldiers to use r*pe I think entered the zeitgeist as an accusation against Gaddafi - meanwhile the only people that I'm aware of provably using that intentionally as a terror tactic are South American fascists.
IIRC it gets deployed against every ontologically evil designated enemy. ~~I know it was deployed against Iraqis during the first Gulf War, with Hillary Clinton claiming Saddam was issuing his troops with Viagra specifically so they could [redacted] more.~~ This is me misremembering, see replies.
I don't doubt r**e was a claim made against Iraqis too, but it's the absurd claim about soldiers taking babies from incubators that most sticks out in my memory when it comes to Iraq and the first Gulf War. However, Hilary Clinton talking about soldiers being given viagra was definitely about Gaddafi. Keep in mind who was in power when those respective conflicts were happening.
Could also argue that Japan codified it during WW2 in the occupation of China and Korea. But rape as a weapon is a conservative tool. It's why conservatives oppose abortion so much.