Talk:Decossackization

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This page refers to checka forces using flamethrowers against cossaks in 1919-1920. I find this highly doubtful, as they had just been invented. I have found no reference to russian or soviet troops having flamethrowers until much later. This was in the middle of a civil war, it would not make sense to issue high tech or rare weapons to the chekists. If any were at hand it would make far more sens to give these to front line troops. Ghbborse 06:24, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Note that the main source for this article is The Black Book of Communism, a source I would not consider neutral.It has a tendency especially to always round up in their statistics detailing deaths they attribute to communism. I agree, it seems unlikely that the Russians had many flamethrowers. They could have gotten some from the Germans during WWI, but even they did not use a great amount themselves. I don't have any information supporting that they maid their own either... This whole article is fishy, if you ask me. Note that their is hardly a mention (I didn't catch one) of the Cossacks being essentially the Special Republican Guard of the Tsar's regime. --KobaVanDerLubbe 22:14, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Not to mention the whole article reads like it was written in another language and translated badly, or just written by someone with poor English. Rcduggan 11:16, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bias and Errors

The current version "Lenin's Bolsheviks' plan to exterminate the Cossacks" is not only highly biased, but is impossible to reconcile with the fact that large numbers of Cossacks served in the Red Army, including Budenny's cavalry forces. The allegation that "300 to 500 thousand were deported or killed" is not substantiated in the given reference. It is impossible to reconcile these claims with the fact that the Russian census shows some 2.5 million Cossacks in the Kuban area in 1926. From the sources I've seen, "decossackization" only spanned early 1919 when the Red Army was repelling aggression by the Cossack warlords. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hadjin (talk • contribs) 17:26, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Get lost Jacob Peters. You have been permanently banned from Wikipedia for your vandalism and sockpuppetry. I'll make sure your edits NEVER stand.--C.J. Griffin 13:53, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Puppet or not, but these words is true. The Article, in the current condition, extremely breaks the neutrality rule WP:NPOV. At the middle 1918 in the Red Army was 14 cossack's regiments and in the White Army was 30 cossack's regiments - it was the Civil War. // Wilderr (talk) 02:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)