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Originally Posted by HGabor
The soviets had quarterly plane 'inventories' in their mechanical papers, planes couldn't just disappear from those lists without showing up in some units' loss reports, etc.
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So so simple for a NKVD/political officer to turn an air combat loss into another kind of loss. "Loss due to ground fire," is a well known method. Operational losses turn in to training losses from time to time, no?
The mere existence of the Soviet commissar/political officer/NKVD directorate makes any
and all Soviet records suspect. And I'm including weather reports. A Soviet record reporting that the sun came up one morning is suspect
on it's face given the historically documented propaganda power and influence of the Soviet commissar/political officer/NKVD.
Bronc