Polygraph

Podcast · spreaker.com

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.

Can’t tell15% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026In 1902, a militia in Stardub demanded the eviction of the Orthodox population.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.Can’t tell20% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Rabbi Yitzhak Aruf served as an intermediary between Jews of the East and the West.None of the provided sources mention Rabbi Yitzhak Aruf, so they neither confirm nor refute that he served as an intermediary between Eastern and Western Jewry. The extraction is faithful to the passage, which says he 'established himself as the intermediary' and does not add details.Can’t tell30% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026William Randolph Hearst wrote in the American press accusing the Russian government of responsibility for the Chisinau massacre.Said by 10BNone of the provided sources quotes or confirms the Hearst editorial about the Chisinau (Kishinev) massacre that the claim describes. The sources cover Hearst's Spanish-American War reporting and mention that the Hearst press embraced Kishinev as a cause, but that is not evidence that he wrote this accusation against the Russian government.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Jews became major merchants in Russia between 1810 and 1820.Said by 10BThe sources do not directly address whether Jews became major merchants in Russia specifically between 1810 and 1820. They cover nearby periods and places: Moscow restrictions on Jewish merchants (1791, 1828, 1832), a sharp drop in Jewish merchant share in Vitebsk by 1802, and Jewish dominance of Odesa's grain trade and banking by the 1830s. The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the passage, which attributes it to Solzhenitsyn, and the passage itself cannot corroborate it.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell50% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026Henry Ford built the largest truck plant in the world in eastern Ukraine.None of the sources mention a Ford truck plant in eastern Ukraine, so the claim cannot be confirmed or refuted. The documented Ford-assisted Soviet plant is at Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), and the 'largest factory in the world' record refers to the River Rouge complex in Michigan, not Ukraine.Can’t tell30% confidence10 sourcesOct 1, 2026Italy was the number one trading partner for the Soviet Union in the early years of the Soviet government.None of the provided sources states whether Italy was the Soviet Union's number one trading partner in its early years. They describe early Italian-Soviet trade agreements and commercial motives for recognition, but give no ranking of partners, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The claim also drops the post's qualifier "for a while" and the "under Mussolini" framing, though the core assertion is otherwise a faithful paraphrase of the passage.Can’t tell40% confidence3 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Soviet Union did not threaten Britain because Britain was heavily invested in the Soviet Union.The extraction faithfully reflects the post's claim that Soviet power did not threaten Britain because Britain was heavily invested there. None of the sources tests that causal link: the primary Maki source attributes British threat perception to geography and strategic position rather than investment, and the thesis and archival sources document British investment in Russia before 1918 and its expropriation by the Bolsheviks in 1918, which undercuts the premise for the period in question but does not directly address the causal claim.Can’t tell40% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Bolsheviks received no support from Western powers during the Russian Civil War.The post says the White Armies received zero support from Western powers, but the extracted claim says the Bolsheviks received no Western support, which departs from the passage. The sources do not address the post's White-Army claim directly, though they consistently describe Western powers backing the Whites, not the Bolsheviks.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Robert Wilton's 1920 book The Last Days of the Romanovs lists 384 Bolshevik deputies in the Soviet, of whom 300 were Jews.No source reports the figures 384 deputies or 300 Jews. The sources that quote Wilton's lists give different counts for different bodies (556 functionaries with 457 Jews; a 62-member Central Executive Committee with 41 Jews), so the claimed figures can't be confirmed or cleanly refuted. The post's "about 300" is rendered as an exact 300 in the claim, which is a minor imprecision.Can’t tell50% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Bolsheviks changed their name in March 1918.The extracted claim drops the post's destination: the post says the party changed its name to the Bolsheviks in March 1918, while the claim says it changed its name in March 1918. Sources support the March 1918 renaming, but they show the party was already called Bolsheviks before then, so the post's version is contradicted; the extraction departs from the passage and is graded unverifiable.Can’t tell30% confidence8 sourcesOct 1, 2026Approximately 0.5 million people were active in imposing communist policies on the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War.None of the provided sources gives a count of people active in imposing communist policies on the countryside, so the half-million figure can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The extraction faithfully reflects the passage's 'half a million people' figure, and the sources only describe requisitioning and War Communism in general terms.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Lenin instructed the People's Commissar of Justice to expand the use of executions and murder.The sources show Lenin issuing instructions to the People's Commissar for Justice about terror and show-trial repression (Sources 3 and 6), which partly fits the claim's gist. None of them contains the specific instruction to expand executions and murder with the broad causes the post quotes, so the central assertion cannot be graded either way. The extraction faithfully reflects the post, which attributes the quote to Lenin and the Commissar of Justice.

Our Weekly Newsletter

The Readout

The week's most-shared posts, checked. What they claimed, how they argued, and what held up.

Unsubscribe any time. See our privacy policy.