Talk:Dmitri Volkogonov

message: I added a 'rewrite' tag as the article is not only lacking citations, it remains ridiculously biased. The idea that Volkogonov lamented 'the fall of Stalin' had to be removed entirely, as it is completely false. Volkogonov decried Stalin's effects on Russia and to assert otherwise is to misinterpret his work.
It is further doubtful that he can be called an 'admirer of Lenin,' given that he writes in The Rise & Fall of the Soviet Empire that 'the scar Lenin left on the face of civilisation is deep.'
To write that 'Volkogonov is not without criticism from his colleagues and then provide one example seems very tenuous, and the section on Hiss is unclear and potentially irrelevant without clarification. The article follows this with two baseless assertions that he was 'criticised,' without any substantiation, the second being particularly subjective. 'Capitalist and Stalinist lies and falsifications'? Volkogonov remains a major Cold War authority, and his access to Soviet archives remains more or less unparalleled. This article is far more worthy of covering that and the contribution he has made to how the Cold War is considered. His works bear no political agenda that I could discern, are remarkably reasoned and impartial, and if support for the 'Stalinist lies' claim cannot be found it will have to be removed. Musikxpert (talk) 13:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite needed

message: I added a major rewriting of the section on Alger Hiss. Clearly, the person(s) writing this section had personal bias in favor of Hiss -- or had missed the final, critical information from Volkogonov. Either way, the quote from the New York Times sets the record straight very clearly. (Let's see how long its inclusion will be left standing.)--Aboudaqn (talk) 13:56, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Something seems to have happened to citations about Alger Hiss:  now, numerous block and single quotes from a variety of people who wrote on the topic through the New York Times appears.  --Aboudaqn (talk) 02:44, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Aboudaqn (talk), I didn't have a problem with your edits.  Your description of the events were accurate and sourced.  When I expanded the article on Dmitri Volkogonov and added sources the section on Alger Hiss seemed to be given undue weight as it stood because it was mostly about Hiss and not Volkogonov so I edited it down to a summation of what had been written on the topic. Evenrød (talk) 22:01, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alger Hiss 

message: For anyone trying to understand the history of the Soviet Union, and specific people Volkogonov wrote about, i would advise reading his documents with a sceptical outlook. I would argue that being familiar with a number of historical figures, one tends to realise, that fanatical followers of any idea come in two flavors: First kind are die hard and passionate idealists like Che Guevara or Hitler  that merge their identity with their beliefs and are incapable of it up. 
Second type are borderline psychopaths, that are capable of cloaking themselves in ideology for personal advantages, and have no moral safeguards to prevent them from doing terrible things. They don't need to justify to themselves.such actions with ideology, because of they naturally don't have empathy. Those people can switch on a dime and not go throughout identity crisis, because they never actually believed or required any ideology. Whatever serves them best at the moment, is what they become, betraying anything with no remorse as no longer relevant. KGB was notorious for finding such chameleons very useful. Hopefully I don't need to spell it out further. 2601:201:8001:790:D946:C4E2:C71B:E51D (talk) 21:09, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: "KGB was notorious for finding such chameleons very useful" where and when did he find them, give at least one example Цйфыву (talk) 07:26, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A word of caution