First off, I don't see any connection between the first and the second paragraph.
Then, what do we care if the Soviets's predictions didn't go with Einstein's equivalence principle, assuming everything you said was true and accurate? We detected the waves, that's what really matters. What are you saying, that we didn't?
Then, what do we care if the Soviets's predictions didn't go with Einstein's equivalence principle, assuming everything you said was true and accurate? We detected the waves, that's what really matters. What are you saying, that we didn't?