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Peter R Quiñones

Since July 2017, Pete Quiñones has been the host of The Pete Quiñones Show (previously known as Free Man Beyond the Wall). His program has focused on the opposition to the globalist project that has undermined historical endeavors. His current interests include philosophy and historical revisionism.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

False85% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Pandora Papers reported that Volodymyr Zelenskyy owns eight mansions around the world.Said by BThe Pandora Papers did not report that Zelenskyy owns eight mansions. Their reporting covered offshore companies linked to Zelenskyy and his associates and three London properties bought by associates, and fact-checkers including Reuters, Snopes, and USA Today found no evidence of the mansions or similar holdings alleged in the post.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False60% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026The fall of the Soviet Union led to tens of millions of deaths in Russia.Said by BThe sources document a severe excess-mortality crisis in Russia after the USSR's collapse, but the estimates they give for Russia run to roughly 3.4 to 7 million excess or premature deaths, not tens of millions. The only multi-tens-of-millions figure, 15.9 million, covers all former Soviet states through 2019, not Russia.False85% confidence9 sourcesOct 1, 2026The United States government created ISIS.Said by BThe claim that the US government created ISIS is contradicted by tier-1 fact-checkers and an expert analysis that reject the allegation as baseless, while noting that US policy in Iraq contributed to conditions that let ISIS's predecessor group grow. The extraction is faithful to the passage, which says 'The U.S. Created ISIS from the ground up.'False72% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026The United States government organized prison breaks for ISIS members in Syria.Said by BNo source says the US organized prison breaks for ISIS in Syria. The 2019 AP fact check found no evidence that Kurdish forces deliberately opened prison doors, and the 2026 CENTCOM-era reporting shows US forces moving 5,700 ISIS prisoners to Iraq explicitly to prevent breakouts. The claim's origin in the post is a conspiracy allegation, and the sources show escapes from SDF-run prisons after the SDF withdrawal, not US-engineered releases.False60% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Jacob Schiff financed the Bolshevik Revolution with an amount equivalent to $2 billion today.Said by 10BThe sources do not support Schiff financing the Bolshevik Revolution at any scale near $2 billion today. The best-documented figure is a roughly $20 million loan alleged by Antony Sutton, and the sources describe Schiff as anti-Bolshevik and say the Bolshevik-financing story was antisemitic propaganda.Raised in the post as a question.False70% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026The people who murdered Tsar Nicholas II were overwhelmingly Jewish.Said by BThe record does not support 'overwhelmingly Jewish': the leader, Yakov Yurovsky, was Jewish, but the other named executioners are not identified as Jewish, and sources describe the squad as mostly Latvian, Central European, and Russian. AP reporting characterizes the claims blaming Jews for the killing as conspiracy theories, so the broader allegation is contradicted, though the Jewish leader is a small true kernel.False85% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026Russia has nationalized its central bank.Said by BThe claim that Russia has nationalized its central bank is contradicted by sources: the Bank of Russia was founded in 1860 as the State Bank and its nationalization/state monopoly dates to 1917, long before the 2026 post; PolitiFact and Lead Stories rated similar claims false, and the Bank of Russia itself is a state institution. The extracted claim also drops the post's framing that this happens 'usually indirectly in their dealings with China,' and the post's own dollarization/nationalization remark is hyperbolic commentary not a checkable act in the sources.False90% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026The pogroms in late Imperial Russia are a myth.Said by BThe claim that late Imperial Russian pogroms are a myth is contradicted by multiple scholarly sources, which document more than 250 anti-Jewish pogroms in 1881–1884 alone, plus later waves in 1903–1906 and 1917–1921, with recorded casualties and property destruction. The claim departs from none of the post's wording, and the Klier paper cited in the sources challenges only the historiography of Jewish leadership during the pogroms, not whether they occurred.False65% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Ukraine's economy is at the same level as Ghana or Mali in terms of corruption and economic development.Said by BThe sources contradict the claim's economic-development element: Ukraine's GDP per capita is roughly double Ghana's and several times Mali's on both nominal and purchasing-power measures (IMF PPP: Ukraine $22.44k, Ghana $9.12k, Mali $3.66k). No source addresses the corruption comparison, and the claim faithfully paraphrases the passage's 'Ghana or Mali' comparison without adding new content.False85% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026Riots in western Russia were started by armed Jewish militants who disrupted Easter Sunday processions and rallies in favor of the monarchy.Said by 11BThe sources consistently describe the Easter-period riots in western Russia (Kishinev 1903, Elisavetgrad and Kiev 1881, Odessa) as pogroms, meaning anti-Jewish violence by mobs and drunken revelers, often with police inaction. None support the claim that armed Jewish militants started them; the passage's assertion matches a debunked allegation, and the only true kernel is that some Jews were armed for self-defense, which the sources do not describe as provoking the riots.False95% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Russian Empire did not lose the Russo-Japanese War.Said by 11BThe claim that the Russian Empire did not lose the Russo-Japanese War is contradicted by multiple reliable sources, including the AP, the U.S. State Department's historical office, and Britannica, which report Japan defeated Russia and forced it to accept the Treaty of Portsmouth. The claimant's passage calls the Russian loss a myth, but that assertion is not supported by any provided source.Disputed in the post.False85% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Bloody Sunday massacre was an aborted attempt to take over the government.The claim that the 1905 Bloody Sunday was an aborted attempt to take over the government is contradicted by the sources, which describe a peaceful petition march by workers that was fired upon by troops. The BBC explicitly states the workers were not trying to overthrow the Tsar, so the post's characterization departs from the historical record; the massacre itself is well documented.

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