User talk:Thejesy

RE to your question on my talk page. The numbers you gave me were total numbers of people shot in this source. However, this user included numbers only for the "Stalingrad front", which is fine. Note however that his source is hardly a reliable source on this subject. My very best wishes (talk) 19:47, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * In addition, author of the text was infamous Pykhalov, , which does makes these numbers (provided as a "fact") highly unreliable at best. My very best wishes (talk) 20:04, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, many thanks for your quick response, I appreciate it. I understand, so it's better to remove the specnaz.ru reference? Anyway, I'm still not sure which source I should trust in first place. Is Hellbeck's book accurate? Why does Beevor, Erickson and Krivosheev made such high estimates? Are they faked? However, I don't want to make any edits on that wiki article, just was curious about those given sources. Best regards Thejesy (talk) 21:55, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I am not an expert, but I would think all these numbers are fundamentally faked (hugely underestimated). First, most executions were conducted not by the "barrier troops" (noted in these sources), but by other subdivisions of the NKVD. Second, the executions and "barrier troops" started in 1941, not in 1942 as the source claims. Finally, there is no reliable statistics of executions by NKVD. Some historians believe their data are intentional disinformation. My very best wishes (talk) 20:31, 16 October 2015 (UTC)