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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.

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.False70% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026In the 1905 Kiev pogrom, approximately 200 to 250 people were killed.The claimed toll of roughly 200 to 250 killed in the 1905 Kiev pogrom is about two to five times the 47 to 100 deaths that the sources report, citing historian William Fuller and the NLI bibliographic record. The extracted claim matches the passage's figures, and the post's own 'hospital' detail does not change the sources' count.False60% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026According to hospital records for the 1905 Kiev pogrom, 12% of those killed were Jewish.No source mentions hospital records or a 12% Jewish share of the dead. The Kiev-specific sources instead describe the pogrom as chiefly directed against Jews, with about 100 Jews killed out of roughly 47 to 100 total deaths, which points to a Jewish majority of the dead, not 12%.False70% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026On June 1, 1906, the Jewish Bund attacked an Orthodox procession, killing 25 people.The sources do not support the claim that the Jewish Bund attacked an Orthodox procession on June 1, 1906, killing 25 people. The procession was fired on during the Białystok events (June 1 Old Style, June 14 New Style), but sources attribute the shooting to unidentified or anarchist actors, or to a paid peasant, not the Bund, and the 25 figure matches a different 1905 killing list rather than the procession attack.False60% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026During the September 1903 riots in Chisinau, Jewish self-defense units attacked Russians.The claim inverts the historical record: the 1903 Kishinev/Chisinau pogrom was an assault by rioters on Jews, and the Jewish self-defense units documented in the sources defended Jews rather than attacking Russians. The September 1903 event was in Homel, not Chisinau, and sources describe Jewish self-defense there as resistance to attackers. The quoted passage is the claimant's own text and cannot corroborate the claim.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.False80% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Bela Kun was the president of the Hungarian People's Republic.The sources show that Károlyi, not Béla Kun, was president of the Hungarian People's Republic. Kun was the leader of the government of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, which replaced it in March 1919, and held the post of foreign minister, not the presidency.False60% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Betharabi and Province News reported in 1903 on Jewish agitators in Chisinau preparing for war, riot, and murder.No source mentions a paper called "Betharabi and Province News." The sources describe the 1903 Chisinau paper Bessarabets, edited by Pavel Krushevan, which spread a false blood-libel story against Jews and incited the Kishinev pogrom, in which Jewish victims were killed by mobs. The claim that the paper reported on Jewish agitators preparing war, riot, and murder therefore reverses what the sources document. The extraction itself is a faithful paraphrase of the passage.False80% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Jewish population in Russia is approximately 0.02%.The claimed 0.02% share is several times below every population estimate in the sources. The 2021 census count of 83,896 gives roughly 0.06% of a ~146.9 million population, and the JPR core estimate of 119,800 (0.82 per 1,000) and Della Pergola's estimate of about 123,000 both put the share near 0.08%. The claim departs from the passage only in its figure: the speaker's own "I think it's like 0.02%" matches the extracted wording, and the sources, not the speaker, grade it.False70% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026The majority of the injured and dead in the Russian pogroms were non-Jewish.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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