Talk:People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs units dressed as Ukrainian Insurgent Army fighters

message: Is there a better title for this article?  RJFJR (talk) 17:11, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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message: This page looks like obvious ukro-nazi propaganda and whitewashing of well-known holocaust perpetrators. I've reviewed sources listed at moment of writing and they look unreliable. In general, all of them, save one, are from post-Soviet Ukraine, where glorification and whitewashing of UPA and SS is well known part of state politics (see ref. to UkrWeekly right in this very article, it's ref #2 at the moment of posting this comment). The only one non-Ukrainian source seems to be a book about a different matter altogether, so I doubt it contains facts or deep research on the subject. Otherwise, there's NOT A SINGLE older source or source from any other country. Come on, US would love to expose this kind of op if it were true, but not a single agency or researcher ever found any documents about that? Article talks about this being authorized operation - so there must be a paper trail in Soviet documents, but it lists none as its source. Article also mentions that UPA found out about it, yet there's not a single reference to a letter, order or anything else from UPA members talking mentioning this in contemporary communication. Maybe you could handwave lack of Soviet sources as "secret" that Russia doesn't wants Ukraine to obtain, but surely UPA-lovers DO have access to historical documents from their "heroes".
# Wilson, A. (2005). Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World
#* I'm unable to find contents of this book, but according to its name it doesn't look like a piece of research about WW2 or Soviet history. I suspect author simply mentioned something he "heard" but not actually "researched" in this book. A quote is required to prove or disprove that, but simple fact that it is a book about different time and matters already makes it look as unreliable source of facts about the subject.
# A news article on rehabilitating and glorifying UPA.
#* Lists NO sources or quotes to orders or historic documents.
# Could be an interesting source.
#* According to some random quotes supposedly from this book I was able to find, it doesn't try to hide UPA atrocities. Unfortunately I'm not able to find referenced pages, thus, once again, a quote is required to show that it is indeed relevant, have verifiable sources itself and wasn't misinterpreted by this wiki article's author.
# Same book as in 3.
# Once again, a news article about SBU "unveiling" some evidence without any links or images of evidence itself.
#* If it is "unveiled", it obviously available and should be included right in this article. So why it is not here? How are news about unveiling a fact is a good reference for this fact?
Summary: lots of promises of facts from very biased sources, but no facts themselves. --Rowaa[SR13] (talk) 16:37, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreliable sources