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When you write about Soviet combat losses is it combat losses (=recorded expressly as such) or combat losses + "did not return" ?
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Krivosheyev's work on Soviet losses isn't that detailed when it deals with all aircraft losses in WW II.
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"Did not return" inevitably contains also noncombat losses.
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Of course. Krivosheyev's figures probably contain that cathegory as well. Do you find it plausible to assume that 65% of all
combat losses during the whole war in fact were accidents which occurred over enemy territory when there was no "friendly witness" to see the circumstances? I don't think so. That was my main point. I think you understood that.
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I really would like to know what famous authors do avoid this forum because of the reasons you site?
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Well, suppose they would not like me to list their names here? Suppose I choose to respect their integrity? Suppose you make your own guesswork?
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I have always been too plain-language speaking, but would like to think that at least I am not scaring anyone away.
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I think you understand that I was not talking about being frank, but that I was talking about desperate personal attacks on the verge of - and sometimes crossing the border of - slander, with the clear purpose of bringing down the personal reputation of a person as a person. It all stems from envy. I think it is obvious to everyone here that envy plays a certain role in several posts on TOCH, and that some of the most obsessed people here reveal their envy through such desperate posts.
Only a few minutes ago, I again received two e-mails from people who urged me to refrain from talking to people on TOCH because it is a free-fire zone for envious mudslingers, and they think I should not allow myself to become a target to such obsessed people. I think they are right.