The majority of the injured and dead in the Russian pogroms were non-Jewish.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The claim that most of the injured and dead were non-Jewish is contradicted by the casualty figures in the sources: Odessa police records show 400 Jewish and 100 non-Jewish deaths, and the primary-source 1903-1904 pogrom figures show 95 Jewish and 13 non-Jewish killed. No source gives a split showing a non-Jewish majority, and the claimant's own passage cannot corroborate it.
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… Why this happened, they just bought the idea that, for no reason, Russians wearing black uniforms and, you know, went in the name of God, shot, shot all these Jews. But the truth is, the overwhelming majority of both the injured and the dead were non-Jewish, because they were the ones who started this, uh, in the first place. And it wasn't just this, this violence, um, by the an organized militia. It was also, you know, these leaflets and little booklets that were circulating, saying, "We're going to kill all of these people, and if we do it, the Messiah is going to come, and we …
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Contradicts. Odessa police records, as reported in the Wikipedia pogrom article, show a minimum of 400 Jews and 100 non-Jews killed, with around 300 injured, predominantly Jewish.[2]
Contradicts. The primary-source summary of pogroms during 1903 and 1904 reports 95 Jews and 13 non-Jews killed, so Jewish victims were the majority of deaths.[1]
Contradicts. Britannica reports that in the Kishinev pogrom 45 Jews were killed and nearly 600 wounded, with no evidence of a non-Jewish majority among casualties.[3]
Context. The YIVO Encyclopedia says total pogrom fatalities are disputed and may have been as few as 50, about half of them pogromshchiki killed when troops fired on mobs, so the death toll is not uniformly Jewish-majority and the figures vary widely by event.[4]
Context. A quoted passage in an academic reprint of the Wikipedia article asserts that the number of people of other nationalities killed or wounded exceeds Jewish casualties, but it gives no supporting breakdown and is contradicted by the police and primary-source figures.[5]
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5 sources: 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 11905 Pogroms in Russiahome.uncg.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 2Pogroms in the Russian Empire - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Pogrom | Meaning, Definition, & Historybritannica.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Pogroms - YIVO Encyclopediaencyclopedia.yivo.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empireen-academic.com · not rated · cited for: context
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