User talk:Francisdrake1588

Please refrain from imposing communist propaganda into your corrections.

Cossacks participating and instigating major pogroms is all well established history. The Bohdan Khmelnytsky genocide is also established history. The cossacks being incorporated into the russian police force and used to suppress worker's movements are all uncontroversial facts. The Ukrainian Cossacks in particular were granted land and title by the state acted as oppressive landlords and were often killed in peasant uprisings. This is all well documented. Who is so afraid of these facts, and who is trying to describe them as "communist propaganda"? The article goes on to describe all of these phenomena, but simply buries them at the end of paragraphs in subsections. These are major leading facts that need to be in the first paragraph. Instead the "cossacks prevented pogroms" myth is drawn from a FICTIONAL story and the 'cossacks have such a bad reputation because others would raid villages and call themselves cossacks to scare peasants" argument is clearly folkloric. Who the hell is responsible for editing this?  WIki arbiters, do your homework!!

July 2015
Hello, I'm RA0808. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Cossacks, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. RA 0808 talkcontribs 03:30, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

here's a good source http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4685-cossacks-uprising