Talk:Oprichnik

what is this "Novgorod incident" listed in this article? I am considering removing it until more information on it is known. 71.169.32.164 (talk)

The article on the Oprichnina is a little less emotive.

The reference here to the KGB is unnecessarily strained, although Eisenstein made the link in the second part of his film biography of Ivan. Russians have contested the image of Ivan ever since his death, which is why writing about him was potentially dangerous during the forty years after the Russian Revolution.

Well, when I was reading this I immediately thought of the NKVD and the KGB. I mean these thugs were the secret police, weren't they? Amazing that Russia has had such a long history of this type of terror. You'd think they would have had enough by now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.138.91.70 (talk) 09:51, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

The suggestion that the terror of Ivan was supported by the Russian Orthodox Church seems excessively broad. Who supported it? The Patriarch? The bishops? The monks? The parish clergy? Ordinary believers?

The author of this article appears to be a liberal Russian with strong opinions on the connections between the 16th century and the 20th century. Stalin himself made such connections explicit and obliged historians to follow whatever was the current line.

This may be hard for most Anglophones to get their heads round but the actions of Cromwell in 17th-century Ireland are a comparable issue that still arouses strong if often misdirected, passions among the Irish diaspora, as does the defeat of James II at the Boyne. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.208.31.116 (talk) 04:06, 17 December 2007 (UTC)