There are facts of snow caves collapsing on people. People did not break their ribs during these collapses. Not in a single case. Such facts are on the Internet. They are not difficult to find and I looked for them and carefully studied them. Everything is logical there. If the snow is soft and can be dug, then it is safe for the ribs. This is not concrete. This is snow. This snow was dug. It was dug very recently!!!
There is not a single fact that a person's ribs were broken during the collapse of a dug snow cave. Since there are no such cases, it is impossible.
If anyone wants to fantasize, please do so. It is your right.
Dorogaja Олег Таймень - Dear Oleg Tajmen:
You are so right.
I am a student of history.
I am also pretty knowledgeable in martial arts and close combat techniques.
I know a lot about what highly educated, highly skilled police forces do when they want to take the lives of people.
In my view, there is not a shade of doubt that the nine students were killed by special forces, most likely the KGB special forces. In all probability, they were killed because they had witnessed something in the Urals which they were not supposed to know about. The order to kill them would have been issued from the Government itself. During the Cold War, the Russian government could not afford the risk that one of these nine told a colleague, friend, spouse or child what they had witnessed.
The nine were however loyal Soviet citizens. Still, the Government decided that they had to be preventively killed.
The Government knew that if the nine students just disappeared, or were brought home in closed coffins, everybody would understand what had happened.
Therefore, the nine potential risks had to be eliminated in such a way as to make it look like an accidents.
"Accidents" are, like "suicides" and "heart attacks," a method used by highly skilled special forces when they want to kill without making it obvious.
This is, more than likely, what happened in this case.
I am both frightened, angered and awestruck by the merciless skill and intelligence the Russian special forces showed when they eliminated the nine students 65 years ago. To force them out from their tent at gunpoint, and let the cold do its job, is a very intelligent way to cover up the murder of the nine.
I am positive that every single victim shows injuries consistent with human attack with lethal intent. Moreover, the injuries can only be explained by human attack.
What I cannot understand, is why some people devote their energy to the denial of what caused the death of the Dyatlov group.