In 1906, Yankel Brook, Pinkus Kugersky, and Tamagowski published incendiary leaflets in Chernigov calling for the murder of royalists and the closure of non-leftist newspapers.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
None of the provided sources mention the 1906 Chernigov leaflets, Yankel Brook, Pinkus Kugersky, or Tamagowski, so the claim cannot be graded in either direction. The extracted claim matches the passage, which attributes the leaflets to Oleg Platonov's 2005 work, a source not provided here.
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… And you could go on. You know, I quote a few of them where, you know, yes, of course, Jacob Breitman was the guy who started that riot with a bomb. The incendiary leaflets in the 1906 Chernigov version had 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. …
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Context. The Chernihiv community history notes that in 1906 a Jewish self-defence committee was imprisoned for illegal weapons possession and disbanded, but it says nothing about leaflets, calls for murder, or newspaper closures.[4]
Context. The remaining sources are archival indexes, genealogy databases, and fact-checking guides that do not address the 1906 Chernigov leaflets or the named individuals.[1][2][3][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Sources
12 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 9 not rated
- 1Snopes-ing 101: the Fact-Checkers' Toolboxsnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Misinformation Toolkitfullfact.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Latest Fact-Checks In Global News Servicepolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4Chernihiv - History of Jewish communities in Ukrainejewua.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Viral Politics USapi.politifact.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Vital Records for Communities in Chernigov Guberniasites.rootsweb.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 7FEB-web: Index of Worksfeb-web.ru · not rated · cited for: context
- 8Search Items · YIVO Online Exhibitionsstrashunlibrary.yivo.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 9Guide to the YIVO Archivesyivoarchives.yivo.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 10All Lithuania Databaselitvaksig.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 11Pinsk Conscripts 1905 - 1912jewishgen.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 12Чернихов Genealogywikitree.com · not rated · cited for: context
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