'That's about the size of it' so we say. I've never read Koestler's book, or any other one for that matter. It is, to me, currently the strongest hypothesis after many years of observation and general Occam's razor type stuff. Probably the strongest single observation that I've made is the intellectual Gestapo/Mafia tactics used against anyone who doesn't tow the 'kosher' line on the whole topic.
Koestler is widely recognized as a Jewish person who hoped in publishing his work that, to quote Wikipedia (which has been since it's early years Zionist occupied territory):
"he was convinced that if he could prove that the bulk of Eastern European Jews (the ancestors of today's Ashkenazim) were
descended from the Khazars, the racial basis for anti-Semitism would be removed and anti-Semitism itself could disappear"For my part, I would hope for the same thing and believe it quite possible to at least a notable degree. I would much rather focus on the particular actions of particular individual and groups than '
the Jews', but the intellectual cluster-fuck surrounding the whole topic make it, by careful design and dedicated effort, impossible to do.
The funny thing about Bakhmut is that as soon as they "liberated" it and the regular Russian army took control of it they one day after,lost a town in the vicinity of Bakhmut,now there is a great counter attack going on there as Zelensky said today so I am afraid we won't see any such parade for the time being,now I think that the Russian parade of 9 May to be removed from their official holiday calendar as no one will remember them as winners of the second world war anymore but just as a terrorist state who blows up dams and flood cities,no other country in the world have done such terror acts even at war.
Actually, there is country that blew many German dams during WW2, dropped 2 nukes on civilians, used chemical weapons (agent orange), depleted uranium, napalm and phosphor bombs on civilians etc
Don't forget also the actual deployment of non-lethal biological weapons at home and around the world in order to achieve political and economic goals.