I think Furr makes good arguments in some cases and he obviously has a massive amount of knowledge about the Soviet archives and the like, but I think that he does also make some silly arguments, like what he says about Katyn.

Edit: Also, Jesus fucking Christ, why are his webpages so unreadable that they can't even display an apostrophe?

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you mean? Furr is wrong to say the Nazis did the massacre?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Right, the Soviets did the massacre (though perhaps the number is slightly inflated for various reasons). The people massacred were military officers, members of the Polish upper class who the Soviets identified as a serious hazard, because they were very liable to side with the Nazis over the communists, and after interrogating many of them and separating out the ones they identified as not being hazards, they killed the remainder, which was several thousand people.

I am inclined to say that there were better solutions, that the officers could surely have been sent to Siberia or something, but that it wasn't just the Soviets killing for fun or for a punitive purpose, much less some of the other ridiculous motivations sometimes ascribed to the event (like "attacking Polish culture" because the officers were upper class and therefore disproportionately academics, etc. outside of their military careers).