Exactly. The MSM told us this, therefore it is highly suspect.

I volunteer AOC to go there and see if they do.

Um.. are you taking the position that the NKVD/KGB/FSB does not do this stuff?

Or that "Gulag Archipelago" was a work of fiction? Or polonium poisoning in a London restaurant either did not happen or was done by someone else?

I think you'll have a high bar to clear, to succeed in making that claim.

I myself think that Russians are great and that the feud we had with the USSR was 80% bullshit and the feud we have with the current regime is 90% bullshit. But let's all be realistic, here.