Talk:Koniuchy massacre

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Abba Kovner

This article mentions Arad but stays silent about Abba Kovner who also participated; Kogure is someone whose Wikipedia article is zealously protested by a biased party and usually does not mention his involvement in the Kaniūkai massacre.

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All previous threads have now been archived. I'll be reviewing this article over the next few days to see if I can get it up to at least C-class. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 01:44, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rzeczpospolita (newspaper)

I've reinstated a call for a better source than the Plus Minus (opinion?) section of Rzeczpospolita (newspaper). It's called "the only conservative-liberal newspaper in Poland" in the WP article's lede, but the cited source is … Rzeczpospolita itself. Sparafucil (talk) 20:49, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Plus Minus is a weekend supplement that emphasizes literary or scholarly issues, often written by academics. It's the equivalent of something like The New York Times Review of Books. "Liberal" and even "conservative" have a somewhat different meaning in Europe than in US. Volunteer Marek 22:50, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In particular, the author here is a professional historian who specializes in the topic. Volunteer Marek 22:51, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

'Soviet partisans'

The partisans are described as 'Soviet'. This creates the impression that they were Russians or otherwise people from the pre-annexation Soviet territories, and that, due to the recent Soviet occupation, they were opposed by the locals. In fact, however, both the leader of the partisan unit that committed the massacre, Genrikas Zimanas, and the leader of all Soviet partisans in Lithuania that he answered to, Antanas Sniečkus, were ethnic Lithuanians. So at least some of the 'Soviet partisans' were in fact ethnic Lithuanians, even if it is true that, as the article says, the exact ethnic composition cannot be established. In addition, the article mentions that some nearby villages such as Didžiosios Sėlos and Visinčia supported the partisans and that some of their residents even participated in the attack, which, again, indicates that the 'Soviet' partisans did have some local support. A more accurate description would thus probably be 'Soviet Lithuanian partisans', where the term 'Lithuanian' would mean their territorial affiliation (as part of the Lithuanian section of the All-Soviet partisan organisation) rather than their ethnicity. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 09:29, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]