Quote Originally Posted by NatashaVB
But, tell me please, why would you trust numbers that are controlled by bureaucracies that grew out of the old cheka?
Does that mean I should trust the numbers that are invented? Hello?

Or are you suggesting that the old KGB and NKVD grew into entirely different organs which have honestly changed their ways and have now become honest, willing to throw open their windows and allow the whole world to look in?
Both KGB and NKVD kept records. Their archives are open now. Those who have been in those archives have published their findings. These findings indicate that most of the "traditional" stuff we hear about Stalin, 1937, etc is nothing but rubbish. Now, with your good English, repeat after me: Rubb-ish. Rubb-ish. Rubbish.

But Russian government is now open and honest? No.
You're pathetic. I am not even asking you to prove that.

I am only asking you to explain why that would bear any significance on the accuracy of the archived NKVD/KGB data.

You cannot be naive enough to argue that point.
I do not want to argue that point. I simply reject it. It is as honest as any other government.


I am from Russia and you live there.
Why is it so customary for you to invent things?

In your posts you have shown a great fondness for angry invective. Invariably, this is a good sign that your own arguments are not as strong as you might wish.
No, this is a sign that I am getting fed up with brainwashed idiots.

You write, "PROVE IT! PROVE IT!"
Yeah, exactly. Please do.

and when someone offers you sources you insult the sources. You call them biased, out-of-date, innacurate.
Show me one example of that. Please pretty please.