Talk:Lena massacre

Tittle of page
I've always seen this refered to as the Lena Goldfields Massacre. Execution implies that those who die have been selected rather than the indiscriminate shooting into a crowd.Dejvid 20:23, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

700 traumatic accidents for every 1000 workers? too many 0's i think..


 * Ya, that sure sounds high to me. Fact checker?Drcwright 19:27, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi there, gentlemen! I translated this article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Indeed, some numbers could have been exaggerated. You are welcome to check the facts, of course. I'll try and do some research myself. KNewman 08:17, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Bodaybo location?
Bodaybo is about 200km from the Lena. Yates and Zveginzov, 'Siberian BAM Guide' say that Luzhky town is just upstream from Bodaybo and was a port and start of the road to the Lena goldfields. They say that troops arrived from Bodaybo and Kirensk. So Bodaybo location may not be right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Benjamin Trovato (talk • contribs) 05:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

casualties
"The local newspaper Zvezda, among others, reported 270 dead and 250 wounded."

This was one estimate, among many many others. In the book where the above is mentioned, over a dozen different estimates are included. Why not mention them in the article? Or say estimates vary from 150 dead (which is lowest number of deaths mentioned by Melancon on p.102 and 278 which is the highest number mentioned on pg.103

https://books.google.ca/books?id=ymYJfA3mx2kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=the%20historical%20record&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.84.88.181 (talk) 01:58, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

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Maklakov or Makarov?
This article currently says the Interior Minister who responded to the massacre in the Duma with "So it was. So it will be" was Alexanded Makarov. But the source cited, Montefiore's "Young Stalin", actually attributes it to Marakov's successor, Nikolay Maklakov (as you can see in this Google Books preview of the Young Stalin page in question). The quote is also attributed to Maklakov in the article on Maklakov. Makarov was Interior Minister at the time of the massacre in April 1912, and served for another 7 months until December 1912. Is it possible Montefiore actually confused these two successive interior ministers with very similar names? Was the speech in the Duma by Maklakov or Makarov? If it actually was Makarov, there should be a different source cited. If it actually was Maklakov, this article should be edited to reflect that. I'm going to add a Failed verification tag to that line until the confusion is resolved because as of now, the source contradicts what's in this Wiki article. VolatileChemical (talk) 07:38, 26 February 2022 (UTC)