USSR trained german units during pre-nazi period, pre-1933.
1925 Lugers could also have been purchased during trade exchanges with german-nazi government, to test weapons, but there is no record of such a thing, afaik.
They were comercially available pre-1939 probably, maybe during that period they could be bought by private owners and requisitioned in record time for some big conspiracy (unlikely).
Ultimately none of this makes sense, since the ammunition was 98.7% german made bullets from 1941. It was ammo that soviets couldnt get.
Exactly, the more you look at the official narrative, the less sense it makes. Releasing documents supposedly signed by Stalin (which got “transferred” translated to “liquidated”, as in prisoner transfers) was something they must have thought made sense at the time and would have been a smoking gun, but ultimately it just unravelled the entire thread.
Also the documents aren’t even “signed” by Stalin, it’s letters from Beria asking what they should do with the Poles who then gives a few suggestions. There’s no smoking gun of Beria saying “Yes sir, I will now execute all the poles”.
You definitely seem to know more about this event than I do, would you be willing to edit the Katyn page on ProleWiki? You don’t necessarily have to request an account, you can write it up as a Word or Google Doc file and I can import it afterwards!
for the sources you will be able to add them right in the text btw as we use our custom references template and will likely have to copy them from your document and redo them in our format.
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USSR trained german units during pre-nazi period, pre-1933. 1925 Lugers could also have been purchased during trade exchanges with german-nazi government, to test weapons, but there is no record of such a thing, afaik. They were comercially available pre-1939 probably, maybe during that period they could be bought by private owners and requisitioned in record time for some big conspiracy (unlikely).
Ultimately none of this makes sense, since the ammunition was 98.7% german made bullets from 1941. It was ammo that soviets couldnt get.
Exactly, the more you look at the official narrative, the less sense it makes. Releasing documents supposedly signed by Stalin (which got “transferred” translated to “liquidated”, as in prisoner transfers) was something they must have thought made sense at the time and would have been a smoking gun, but ultimately it just unravelled the entire thread.
Also the documents aren’t even “signed” by Stalin, it’s letters from Beria asking what they should do with the Poles who then gives a few suggestions. There’s no smoking gun of Beria saying “Yes sir, I will now execute all the poles”.
You definitely seem to know more about this event than I do, would you be willing to edit the Katyn page on ProleWiki? You don’t necessarily have to request an account, you can write it up as a Word or Google Doc file and I can import it afterwards!
I wouldn’t mind! It might take me a decent while, but I wouldn’t mind fact-checking, adding sources, and doing as best a write up as I can!
Thank you for the offer!
for the sources you will be able to add them right in the text btw as we use our custom references template and will likely have to copy them from your document and redo them in our format.