I agree, though what I was getting at was things are literally lost in the translation. Some of it is absurd and easily spotted such as search engines, which conjures up the idea that AOL were somehow involved, another example is the dried loin being called brisket. People have done their best to translate documents, but mistakes are made, and even more so if as Axelrod suggests, there is such a thing as old and new Russian and they are not native speakers.
Most of us are sourcing our information from the internet, and it only takes one original published error to be replicated everywhere, or an unchallenged or corrected post in a busy thread, to misinform and generate myth. But non-Russians can only act upon what they are provided with.
Finally there is also something which, in the context of anything to do with Soviet or Russian leadership and authority, is deliberate disinformation, that if only they know the truth and everyone else is fed falsehood then it gives them power, and when authority habituates such deception then even they and all of their underlings come to believe the lie and history is rewritten.
Perhaps what is needed is a thread which lays down reliable information as peer-reviewed facts, these then become the building blocks of any theory, a reliable foundation, but I could see that even there almost everything may be open to challenge. Possibly the only thing we can rely on is that 9 people died, but where they died, how they died and why is always going to be speculation because we weren't there at the time.
Dat's why itsh a mishterrie, as Toyah Wilcox might sing.
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