We have written already about The TRUE Berland Scandal: Why Did Rabbis In the Know Delay Protesting So Long?!
An excerpt:
Without naming names, read this short work (next reworked into this) to see what I mean. Many, many rabbis and others knew what was happening, but they closed their eyes, allowed themselves to be intimidated into silence (or even being photographed with him!), gave ridiculous excuses (such as: “This is an internal Breslov affair” (?!), p. 15 here), and the like.
They themselves admit to knowing the facts for decades (even less justifiable than all the cases of rabbinic ignorance, such as Elior Chen), see here p. 32. Some excused him by just calling him “crazy”, see the last pages of this. Is every Rasha, then, literally crazy?!
In a class by Rabbi Yom Tov Cheshin (הרב יום טוב חשין שליט”א – סוד הזעקה הגואלת: here, at 3:27) he describes his whistleblowing meeting with Rabbi Shechter about Berland yemach shemo.
He records Rabbi Shechter as saying people feared for their lives, so they stayed silent but knew the truth about Berland 40 years ago.
I don’t know if this can be taken literally. Didn’t Rabbi Shechter actually meet with the Berland abomination in front of cameras? Was that, too, Pikuach Nefesh?! And why couldn’t any of the parties in the know ever start a “whispering campaign”, at least?!
For an attempted defense, among other things, see here.