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The Pete Quiñones Show
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.
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Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026During the 1993 confrontation between the Russian legislature and Boris Yeltsin, there were about 1500 deaths.Said by BThe sources give official death tolls of roughly 124 to 187, which the claimed 1500 far exceeds, but nongovernmental estimates of more than 1,000 (RFE/RL) and as high as 2,000 (ADST) bracket the claimed figure. The claim matches the post's wording and is graded on the death toll alone, since the post's 'confrontation' is the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.Mixed60% confidence4 sourcesOct 1, 2026Boris Yeltsin received 54% of the vote in the mid-1990s despite having 5% popularity.Said by BThe 54% vote share is supported: the official second-round result was 53.82% (Washington Post, Belfer Center) and Wikipedia gives 54.40%. The 5% popularity figure is only loosely supported: Belfer reports Yeltsin's approval at 6% when the January 1996 campaign began, but Hoover reports 29% trust in June 1996 and 10% in November, so the sources measure different things at different times and do not establish 5% for the mid-1990s.Mixed50% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Hitler's invasion destroyed 40% of the Russian economy.Said by BThe sources support a large wartime fall in Soviet output of roughly one-third to two-fifths, so the 40% figure falls within the range they report. But they measure a Soviet economy, not the 'Russian economy', and they describe a fall in output or GNP rather than outright destruction, so the claim is only partly supported.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 20264 million Russians were homeless in the 1990s.Said by BSeveral sources cite about 4 million homeless or lacking-registration Russians in the 1990s, so the figure falls within the estimates. However, the estimates range from 3.3 to 4.5 million, sources say no reliable official count exists, and the 4 million figure often refers to people without registration (propiska) rather than openly homeless people, about half of whom are openly homeless.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Vladimir Putin won the war in Chechnya.Said by BSeveral sources report that Russia, under Putin's leadership, regained control of Chechnya and that the Kremlin declared victory, which supports the claim. A 2024 Cambridge-listed analysis disputes that the Russian army won, attributing the win to Kadyrov's clan and calling Russian victory less decisive than it appeared, so the claim is only partly supported.Mixed50% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Vladimir Putin imprisoned Russian elites for selling off chunks of Russia to Boeing and Exxon Mobil.Said by BNYT (2004) reports that Khodorkovsky's attempt to sell a stake in Yukos to ExxonMobil was a 'catalyzing event' for the Kremlin, which partly supports the claim. However, the sources record his arrest on fraud and tax-evasion charges, and none mentions Boeing or a sale of Russian assets to Boeing, so the claim's stated motive and scope go beyond the record. The claim also drops the post's qualifier 'partially', turning one contributing factor into the sole reason.Mixed50% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Approximately 4,000 Russian soldiers were killed in the Second Chechen War.Said by BThe figure of about 4,000 holds only under a narrow measure: Russian Army soldiers alone are reported at roughly 3,536–3,725 deaths (ur.wikipedia, historyguy). Under broader military counts that include Interior Ministry troops and police, the sources give about 7,000–8,000 (ur.wikipedia 7,217–7,425; historyguy 6,988; Hoover 8,000 military and police), and other estimates run from about 9,000 to 14,000 (Jane's via Wikipedia; Soldiers' Mothers Committee). The claim departs slightly from the post, which says 'Russians' rather than 'soldiers', but that is a minor wording difference.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Approximately 15,000 Chechen militants were killed in the Second Chechen War.Said by BThe claimed figure of about 15,000 militant deaths falls within the competing estimates in the sources, which range from at least 10,000 (Russian defense officials, as cited by GlobalSecurity) to 14,113 for 1999–2002 and 16,299 total (Wikipedia tables and Historica wiki). Because the figures are disputed and the claim's number sits inside that range, the verdict is mixed rather than true.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.Mixed50% confidence4 sourcesOct 1, 2026Under Boris Yeltsin, pensions were 25% below the poverty line.Said by BSources show Yeltsin-era pensions often fell below the subsistence/poverty threshold, but the figure varies by measure and period: the average pension stayed just above the minimum subsistence level for much of the 1990s, fell to about 70% of it in 1998 (roughly 30% below), and the minimum pension reached 50% of the minimum in 1995. The claim's 25% figure falls within this range but is not stated by any source, so it is partly supported. The post's wording ('below the poverty line, 25%') is faithfully extracted.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026In 2010, the Russian birth rate was at least 50% higher than it had been in the past.Said by BThe sources show Russia's birth rate rose sharply by 2010, but whether it was at least 50% higher depends on the baseline and the measure. Crude birth rate rose from 8.7 per 1,000 in 2000 to 12.6 in 2010 (about 45%), and births rose about 48% from the 1999 low, while the total fertility rate rose from 1.16 in 1999 to about 1.57 in 2010 (about 35%) and only about 20% from 1.31 in 2006. The claim's "in the past" baseline is also unspecified, and the passage's "at least 50%" is not directly quantified by any source.Mixed65% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Russian civil servants are prohibited from holding accounts in foreign banks.Said by BSources confirm Russia bans certain civil servants from holding foreign bank accounts under Federal Law 79-FZ (2013) and Article 17 of the civil service law, so the core assertion holds. However, the post's universal 'no civil servant' and the claim's generic 'civil servants' overstate the scope: the Kremlin summary and the law limit the ban to specified categories (senior posts, officials with sovereignty/security decision-making roles, etc.), not all civil servants. The claim also departs from the post only in dropping the 'especially security services' qualifier, which does not change grading. As of 2026-10-01, the ban was in force for those categories.Mixed70% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Alexei Navalny attended Yale University to study law.Said by BNavalny did attend Yale for a semester in 2010 as a World Fellow, which the sources confirm. However, the sources contradict the claim that he went there to study law: they describe a fellowship for mid-career professionals, and one source says he studied political science and world affairs there, while his law degree came from a Russian university.