User talk:Kges1901/2017/April

The Bugle: Issue CXXXII, April 2017
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Created Draft:Aleksei Aleksandrovich Grechkin
Greetings. Zee money suggested that I reach out to you. I created Draft:Aleksei Aleksandrovich Grechkin. I see you're very active in creating articles for Soviet generals. I welcome your suggestions. I cannot read Russian and I've only found one source which has conflicting command dates for the General. Trilotat (talk) 16:50, 14 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much for working on that article. You're adding more than I could have, so I'll stop edit conflicting with you. Sorry about that. Trilotat (talk) 20:58, 14 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your edit of 21:08, 16 April 2017‎. You summarized edit with "don't link in the lang-ru temp, see also is now redundant because of interwiki." Does that mean that someone wanting to see the article on Russian Wikipiedia must search the name provided? I looked at H:IW, but I'm no less confused. Trilotat (talk) 00:02, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Interwiki links are displayed to the left of the article text under the 'languages' tab, and a user wanting to access the Russian version would merely click on "Русский" in the tab, and vice versa for one wanting to go from Russian to English. Kges1901 (talk) 00:05, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * That is so cool!! Thanks. I'm going back to see the interwiki articles for stuff I've already visited. Trilotat (talk) 01:10, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

882nd Motor Rifle Regiment
Neither of Holm's pages on the 60th TD nor the 129th MRD back up the statements in the first para of the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade article. Not clear that 882 MRR was with either of those divisions. Would you consider rechecking Feskov et al 2013? Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 07:53, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I used the Russian MoD sources (even though they aren't supported by Feskov et al 2013 because it is possible that there are errors in Feskov et al 2013. He says very little on the 882nd MRR and seems to say that the regiment, which was apparently formed from the 60th's 272nd Tank Regiment (which was then reformed again as the 272nd Tank Regiment) was sent to the Far East in the late 1960s to form the 270th MRD. Kges1901 (talk) 09:03, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Can you give me the page reference in Feskov et al 2013? Buckshot06 (talk) 10:34, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * It is on page 506. Kges1901 (talk) 10:53, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

re: Usage of Meltyukhov for Soviet unit history facts
For things that are not controversial, and lying about which doesn't advance Soviet (Russian) nationalism / falsified version of history. Most mundane things are ok, IIRC the problems with his works were related to topics like Katyn denial, highlighting or inventing Polish abuse of Soviet prisoners while ignoring / denying Soviet atrocities, and overall conclusions that support claims like "Soviet Union was a peaceful country that respected human rights and was invaded and brutalized by aggressive, atrocity-prone neighbors'. Mind you, I don't remember the details now, but bottom line he was clearly falsifying some aspects of history to promote current Russian rewriting of history to promote Russian (Putin's) agenda (Soviet Union was not bad, let's restore the glory days that people forgot about and that were lied about by Western imperialists, etc.). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:14, 24 April 2017 (UTC)