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In 1902, a militia in Stardub demanded the eviction of the Orthodox population.

Posted by The Pete Quiñones Show, Checked

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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
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None of the provided sources mention Stardub, a militia, or a demand to evict an Orthodox population in 1902, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The extraction faithfully reflects the passage, and the claimant's own words cannot count as evidence.

What was said

… three elite Jews, Yankel Brook, Pinkus Kugersky, Tamagowski, calling for the murder of all royalists, death to the Czar, and shutting down of any non-leftist or at least pro-Jewish newspaper. And this comes from Oleg Platonov, too, in his work in from 2005. In places like Stardub, you know, 1902, so we're going a few years earlier than that, there was an a militia demanding the eviction of the Orthodox population of the city. They're cleansing the area of these, you know, of the Gentiles, was was normal. The only time it gets called a pogrom is when the the Gentiles fought back. …
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What we found

Context. The sources cover unrelated topics, including a fact-checker scorecard, the 1900 US Census, Great Plains Orthodox Christians, the 1902 Irish events, and a 1902 Ukrainian peasant uprising, and none addresses Stardub or an eviction demand.[1][2][3][4][5]

Context. The claim matches the passage's own wording, so it does not add anything the post did not say; the only available support is the claimant's own account, which is not independent evidence.

Sources

5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 2 primary, 2 not rated

  1. 1Historypolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
  2. 21900 Census: Volume II. Population, Part 2census.gov · primary source · cited for: context
  3. 3EASTERN ORTHODOX | Encyclopedia of the Great Plainsplainshumanities.unl.edu · primary source · cited for: context
  4. 41902 in Ireland - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
  5. 5Peasant Uprising of 1902encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com · not rated · cited for: context

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