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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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False60% confidence3 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Petrograd Soviet had 300 members, of whom 271 were Jews.No source gives the claimed 300-member total or the 271-Jewish count for the Petrograd Soviet. The sources that do give figures put the Soviet at almost 3,000 deputies (Wikipedia) and the wider Soviet elite at about 3,000, of whom nearly 300 were Jews (HSE), which contradicts the claimed total by roughly an order of magnitude. The claim's '300 members' also drops the post's 'almost 300'.False60% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Bolsheviks received approximately 20% of the vote in the Russian Constituent Assembly election.Multiple sources put the Bolsheviks' national vote share in the 1917 Constituent Assembly election at roughly 24-25%, not about 20%. The claim's figure falls outside that range, and the 20% figure in the source appears only for the earlier Petrograd district council elections.False85% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026By the start of World War I, 95% of the Russian peasantry owned their own land.The claim that 95% of the Russian peasantry owned their own land by the start of World War I is contradicted by several sources. Peasants mostly held land communally, and only about one-quarter had secured individual ownership of their allotments by 1914, with fewer than 5% owning land individually. The passage's claim departs from nothing in the extraction; the figure itself is the problem.False60% confidence3 sourcesOct 1, 2026In 1918, the Soviet government declared private trade a crime punishable by death.The claim that the Soviet government declared private trade a crime punishable by death in 1918 is not supported by the sources. The November 1918 Sovnarkom decree abolished private trade without mentioning death, and a historian's review says the February 1918 law allowed execution of private traders only when they offered armed resistance, with the regime tolerating trade by September 1918. The extraction matches the passage faithfully.False55% confidence3 sourcesOct 1, 2026Approximately 25% of peasants participated in uprisings in Russia during the Russian Civil War.The claim's 25% figure is not supported by the sources. They estimate 2-3 million peasant rebels (about 500,000 arrested), and describe peasants as the vast majority of the population, so a 25% participation rate would imply a far larger rebel count than the sources report, though no source states the total peasant population directly. The post's own wording refers to 'the latest number', and the claim faithfully paraphrases it.False80% confidence12 sourcesOct 1, 2026Moses Urytsky, the head of the Petrograd Cheka, was killed by a moderate Social Revolutionary.The sources agree that Moisei Uritsky (spelled Urytsky in the claim), head of the Petrograd Cheka, was assassinated on 30 August 1918, but they identify his killer as Leonid Kannegisser, a young military cadet and poet, not a Social Revolutionary. The claim's central assertion about the killer's identity is therefore contradicted, and the claim's faithful extraction from the passage does not change that.False60% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Gulag system was built with Western money and expertise.Said by 15CNo source reports Western money or expertise in building the Gulag. Several sources say the Soviet secret police (OGPU/NKVD) ran and built the camps with Soviet specialists and prisoner labor, which contradicts the claim's core and its premise that the Soviets had no expertise of their own. The extraction matches the passage faithfully.False70% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026There was no systematic prison system or labor camp system in the Czarist era.Said by 15CThe claim that the Czarist era had no systematic prison or labor camp system is contradicted by sources describing a formal Tsarist penal system with katorga hard labor, forced labor in Siberia, a 1845 Code of Punishments, and a Main Prison Administration created in 1879. The post's broader point that Tsarist penal practice was far less brutal than the Soviet Gulag is partly supported by the government source, but that is not the claim as extracted.False70% confidence5 sourcesOct 1, 2026Henry Ford personally invested in Eastern Ukraine to establish the Soviet automotive industry.Said by 15CSources place Ford's 1929 Soviet automotive project at Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) in Russia, not Eastern Ukraine, and describe a company agreement for technical assistance and car sales rather than Henry Ford personally investing. The claim's location is contradicted, and the 'personally invested' element is not supported, so the claim departs from the passage's framing and is judged false on its central assertion.False60% confidence6 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Soviet gulag system was not taken down until near the end of Mikhail Gorbachev's rule.The claim that the Gulag system was not taken down until near the end of Gorbachev's rule conflicts with the sources saying the Gulag was officially abolished in January 1960. Some forced-labor camps persisted into the Gorbachev era, with the last political camp closing in 1988, but that is a remnant, not the system itself.False60% confidence4 sourcesOct 1, 2026The Bolsheviks killed Czar Nicholas II and his family in a ritual.The claim asserts as fact that the Bolsheviks killed the Romanovs in a ritual, but sources describe a Bolshevik firing-squad execution and show the ritual-murder idea was a church-commission theory that mainstream historians and Jewish groups rejected as unsubstantiated antisemitic slander. The extraction also drops the post's negation ('They didn't just kill Zar Nicholas in a ritual'), so the claim reverses the speaker's emphasis.False68% confidence7 sourcesOct 1, 2026Henry Ford built a truck plant near Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.The sources do not support Ford building a truck plant near Kharkiv. The Kharkiv factory was a Soviet tractor plant designed by Ford's architect Albert Kahn, while Ford's truck-plant agreement concerned Nizhny Novgorod. The extracted claim also drops the post's 'largest truck plant in the world' superlative, which the sources do not corroborate either.