Works the same in any country
Take Katyn. Beria's memo of March 1940 proposes shooting the Polish officers; the Politburo approves it, and Stalin signs. Shelepin's 1959 note to Khrushchev gives the figure of 21,857 and recommends destroying the files. Gorbachev acknowledged NKVD responsibility in 1990, and the packet was handed to the Poles in 1992. Furr's answer is that the documents are forgeries. That is the whole method in one move. Where there is no signed order, he says the charge is unproven, and where there is a signed order, he says the paper is fake. No evidence can reach the conclusion, because the conclusion decides in advance which evidence counts as evidence. That isn't skepticism about archives. It's an argument for the Marxist method.
DELIBERATE OBFUSCATION
It is possible that I could disgrace myself. But there's always a bit of Dialectic to help out. I have naturally expressed my statements so that I am also right if the opposite thing happens.
(No other English translation available online)
The German
Marx an Engels, 15. August 1857
"Es ist möglich, daß ich mich blamiere. Indes ist dann immer mit einiger Dialektik zu helfen. Ich habe natürlich meine Aufstellungen so gehalten, daß ich im umgekehrten Fall auch Recht habe."
MEW a.a.O. 29, 161., Rotbuch S. 115
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