Please take note that he only "came clean" because the real origin of "his" pictures was found to be on Gebirgsbattaillon 232 by a poster on this thread:
http://www.sondereinheiten.de/forum....tart=75
Only afterwards ,when it was to expected that someone will show up here and tell about his fraud, he decided to put up some strange explanation.
Consent on Sondereinheiten.de is that his Afghanistan stories are pure invention, probably based on loose information gathered from media reports. Note that this is the judgement of officers and NCOs in the german military, some of whom I know personally. One of these (Nickname SFC) was in the Gebirgsjägerbrigade for nearly 19 years, his office was right next to the commanding general´s and he never heard about this whole supposed "UN thing" Balschoiw is supposedly taking part in.
It´s believable that he was in Somalia in the 90s, he also has authentic pictures of this, these seem to be the only ones he has to prove his claims about his military live, though. He even tried to use them as proof that what he says about Afghanistan is true on Sondereinheiten.de . Meanwhile he edited and deleted all his postings on that forum, probably realizing that he can´t keep up his legend versus knowledgeable german military types and that he´s fighting a losing battle.
I know that people here will tend to defend him as many of you know him since quite a time, but please consider the facts before blindly following his strange reasoning. There is no proof at all about his military life after 1994, only thing he uses again and again for his claims are some pictures from Somalia 1994.
He already demonstrated his ability to lie without remorse when he posted these stolen pictures. Hadn´t they been found on that german forum he still would go on babbling about how they´re the real thing here. His misfortune was that they ended up on a german forum with knowledgeable people where they quickly were uncovered as fake.
Please do not delete this posting as people have the right to know about the fact that they´re probably betrayed. Everyone is free to draw his own conclusions, but I think it´s important to see both sides (Balschoiws stories for one, and what german military guys have to say about it on the other side). We can only wait if Balschoiw will provide some real pictures or other proof, until then I suggest not to take his stories too serious.
For readers speaking german, the whole thread can be found here:
http://www.sondereinheiten.de/forum....start=0
