Hello Boroda,
Just wondering - would it matter if I were to publish the statements by Gorbachev and his successors in which they admitted to various attrocities (including Katyn) and the deaths during the Stalin era, or made reference to statistics gleaned from the Kremlin archives since they were partially opened in the '90s?
Would it be correct to also assume that you would argue with the 1,606,748 documented deaths in the Gulag system (there are far more still hidden in the unreleased info). Did Kolyma even exist? And were Shalamov and Sozhenitsyn merely pawns of the West?
Also, the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact was signed in August 23, 1939. It included a secret protocol for the division of Poland and laid the groundwork for the Soviet Invasion of September 17, 1939 as well as the occupation of the Baltics. This was obviously before the Polish President was forced to flee to Romania on September 18th and prior to the USSR's invasion of Poland (or was the orderly and equitable partitioning of Poland a spontaneous act of German-Russian goodwill?) To their credit the Poles had an exile government up and operating in Paris by the 30th of September.
Ah well, an interesting online exhibit of things that you feel never happened:
Gulags Just a personal observation. The only thing worse than actually being murdered by a despotic regime is becoming a "non-person" utterly erased from the history books. One of the reasons why what the USSR perpetrated was in some ways worse than the attrocities of the Germans, is that at least the deaths of German victims have been documented. While many of the names were lost, there has been a concerted attempt to recover that information, while in the former USSR the vast majority of the executed remain "ghosts", paved over or erased from history. They "never existed" their images even removed from doctored photographs. Murder is evil, but being deleted, having ones very existence voided, is far worse.
- SEAGOON
