Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
Like I said, if one doesn't approach such "reports" with a critical mind, he or she may end up with a distorted picture.
If one approaches such reports with a distorted mind, I'm afraid the picture will be distorted as well.
Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
The amount of trust was such that Stalin made an urgent order to move into Poland after seeing how fast Wehrmacht was advancing, to ensure Germans don't come into control of eastern Poland, which was supposed to go to the Soviets. It was such a dash that Soviet units moved with little fuel and little to no ammunition, just to get to the demarcation line before Germans.
You seem to know Stalin's mind better than anyone else. Let's remember that these are only your own assumptions.
Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
As I've said - revisionism.
Everything that ruins a deeply entrenched picture is bound to be called a revisionism. Any new discovered fact is disregarded and proclaimed revisionism just because it interferes with the comfortable and traditionally-accepted "truth". This is the way with science in general and the historic science in particular. Russia is especially good at the latter. And evidently, not only Russia.