• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    Gotcha, the Soviets should have risked entering a war they weren’t certain they could win and weren’t certain the west wouldn’t flip on them. In other words, you wish they had committed suicide for Poland.

    As for Katyn, it’s the same source that you read earlier, it’s Grover Furr’s blog. Grover Furr often makes poor arguments, but the historical evidence he presents is valid. You can’t explain the factual discrepancies in the documents, the eyewitness accounts stating that the Nazis did it, nor the German ammunition from 1941, nor the German produced rope, nor the Nazi execution methods, nor why you’re agreeing with Goebbels, who first created the story and whose account the anti-communist governments agree with. In absence of a response, you just say “No” and “Hah.”

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        1. If they threatened war, they would have been attacked. They knew an attack was coming, and giving the Nazis a cause for war could have been used by the west to side with the Nazis. This was not without evidence.

        Harry Truman later, in 1941 in front of the Senate, stated:

        If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

        1. Are you calling the mountains of evidence the Nazis did it falsified, or do you just make it a habit to take Goebbels at his word?
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          If they threatened war, they would have been attacked.

          We don’t know that, nor if the attack on Poland would’ve gone ahead with the threat from both sides. That’s why it would’ve been a gamble. Then again, so was making a deal with them, Germany might have continued on the attack once both sides met in Poland.