Talk:Great Purge

Not in source

I was reading through the article and noticed the following claim "The officials were mandated to arrest and execute a specific number of so-called "counter-revolutionaries", compiled by administration using various statistics but also telephone books with names sounding non-Russian" [76], I looked through the source that the claim comes from, Stéphane Courtois Black Book of Communism, without a page number and could find no mention of this method of choice with the closest being the NKVD looking through Ukrainian schoolbooks to identify possible members of the OUN during the Second World War (229). If a source could be found for this claim it would prove deliberate ethnic cleansing through the campaign however I was unable to find it in this source. Drgerke (talk) 07:55, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Official but controversial?

The article states that "On 30 October 2017, President Vladimir Putin opened the Wall of Sorrow, an official but controversial recognition of the crimes of the Soviet regime." Why was this monument considered "controversial" by the editor? The source does not support this opinion. 177.26.92.203 (talk) 23:17, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

The purge as a psyop

On page 384 of my copy of A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson, the author wrote:

Few knew about Heydrich when the BSC went to work on him. The final analysis said this about him: [...] Heydrich manufactured the evidence against the Soviet Russian generals that resulted in the great Stalinist purge of military forces.

There is a section in the article on Heydrich article about this psyop. I'm not sure if this article is about the same purge, but if so, Heydrich should probably be mentioned in this article too.

Keith (Hypergeek14)^Talk 23:23, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Yes the same purge but "the importance of Heydrich's part is a matter of conjecture", so I dont think deserves mentioning in this wide-scope article.. --Altenmann >talk 05:00, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Date of Trotsky photo?

The Trotsky photo is dated as 1929, but it is clearly the same one used in the main article on Leon Trotsky - which claims the photo is from 1918. Thoughts? Dmh430 (talk) 04:54, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Best to go with the what the source on the file page says until / unless someone gives a good counter-source. Yue🌙 (talk) 00:54, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

History

Who is Roy medvedev what motivated him to write history of Stalin ~2026-24460-78 (talk) 14:51, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

Roy Medvedev is wikilinked in the body text & Let History Judge is wikilinked in the citation text. I suggest that you follow the links. Peaceray (talk) 04:07, 24 April 2026 (UTC)