The classic counter of the conspiracy theorist. Lack of evidence/proof of the conspiracy is proof of the conspiracy.Shahter wrote:
they have been. the conclusions made and unwillingness to listen to the irrefutable facts dug up of the opposite side speak for themselves.
The entirety of world opinion is against you on this, Shahter. It's as if you're saying the pyramids in Egypt were built by Russians because you've got documents in Russian--that you are unwilling to translate--that say so. Even though everyone else has piles and piles of evidence showing that they were built by Egyptians.
It's the same with Katyn. All evidence (to include evidence provided by a survivor) points to the NKVD doing this, with the specific direction and approval of the highest levels of Soviet leadership, followed by a coverup/misdirection that blamed it on the Germans--who the Soviets were allied with at the time. That coverup lasted for decades, because to not believe it meant you would go along with something put out by the Nazis, who put out what really happened at Katyn after the Soviets switched sides, hoping to drive a wedge between the Allies and delay help on the Eastern front. It didn't work for the Nazis, as that play was basically ignored for decades until a push by Poles to figure out what really happened. So the world figured out what really happened.
In order for the conspiracy to work as you believe, (since you haven't really described anything at all), it would appear to have to go something like this:
Gorbachev's government forged a bunch of documents showing Soviet culpability in a heinous war crime that had for decades been blamed on the Nazis. They placed said forgeries in the archives of various countries (to include the US) to be uncovered by researchers once they initiated glasnost. Included in the forgeries were Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance photos of mass graves being created in the Soviet areas of Katyn and at least two other areas that were also found in the US National Archives (again, the US was fine with the explanation that the Nazis had done Katyn). I know...they were Luftwaffe photos--clearly doctored by the Germans to make the Soviets look bad!
To go along with your conspiracy theory, it would have made much more sense for the US to have "uncovered" the Soviet war crime in the 50s or 60s--at the height of the Red Scare--rather than when relations with the USSR were improving. So there's no benefit to the US to taking part in said conspiracy at the time it happened. Next, there's no benefit to the USSR (other than the truth) to the timing of the conspiracy--it would have been far better to keep that secret buried. Or, if they are going through the trouble of forging a bunch of shit, to forge incontrovertible proof that the Nazis were responsible and then hand that over to the Polish government.
There are so many ways that your conspiracy fails with just a modicum of objective analysis, Shahter. I personally couldn't care less, but the facts simply don't support your position.
The Soviets did something really bad. Get over it. Every country has its black marks. It's not like you're being held personally accountable for what a bunch of egomaniacal assholes did in the 1940s, Shahter. You are, however, being held accountable for the poor quality of your arguments here. And they are poor--classic unsupported conspiracy bullshit, tbh.
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― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
