Maybe, but unfortunately it cannot be used as a strike against it. The Cambodian genocide happened. Defectors are notoriously unreliable and many Soviet defec

Maybe, but unfortunately it cannot be used as a strike against it. The Cambodian genocide happened. Defectors are notoriously unreliable and many Soviet defectors told falsehoods their host country wanted to believe. (This doesn't mean every defector is unreliable, or even that everything an unreliable defector will say is false -- it just means what it means, that defectors are unreliable as a category.) Both things are true.