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[Krusty]

I've already put together a pretty damning post against the Soviet kill claims, let me find it... here it is:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,228617.msg2802137.html#msg2802137

You can't trust anything they said, basically.

Humble.. you DO realize you're reading translations from SOVIET documents about how SOVIETS claimed kills for the SOVIET pilots, right?

They didn't have the largest propoganda department of the cold war for nothing. They rivaled Baghdad Bob for the amount of denials and misinformation they put out. Soviet Russia was like the little dictatorship that re-wrote all history to put their leader as inventing the light bulb, flying the first airplane, discovering Mt. Everest, etc. Any and every lie was officially published in the attempt to show the oppressed Soviet culture why this government was allowed to exist (placation, perhaps? Worked for the Nazis)

[Cthulhu]

I've already put together a pretty damning post against the Soviet kill claims, let me find it... here it is:

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,228617.msg2802137.html#msg2802137

You can't trust anything they said, basically.

Humble.. you DO realize you're reading translations from SOVIET documents about how SOVIETS claimed kills for the SOVIET pilots, right?

They didn't have the largest propoganda department of the cold war for nothing. They rivaled Baghdad Bob for the amount of denials and misinformation they put out. Soviet Russia was like the little dictatorship that re-wrote all history to put their leader as inventing the light bulb, flying the first airplane, discovering Mt. Everest, etc. Any and every lie was officially published in the attempt to show the oppressed Soviet culture why this government was allowed to exist (placation, perhaps? Worked for the Nazis)

A bit off-topic, but:
They also didn't have the only propaganda machine active during the cold war. Remember the 1966 story from China claiming that Chairman Mao swam 10 miles of the Yangtze River in just 65 minutes? (The man was 73 at the time)