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Re:Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in... by glanzwulf on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:34AM (#37380855)
Well, questionable original source aside, just went on a rabbithole in wikipedia reading about it. Or do you consider wikipedia also propagandist?
Re:Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in... by mateuszf on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:37AM (#37380872)
I'm not saying that the article is untrue. I'm not a historian. What I'm saying is that all content from this source should be treated with high skepticism.
Re:Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in... by ajuc on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:57AM (#37381082)
The battle happened, there's no doubt. I agree TVP is biased as f. tho. Think Fox News if Trump was in power and Fox was state media.
Re:Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in... by brazzy on Monday September 04, 2023 @10:58AM (#37381096)
Wikipedia absolutely can be propagandist. It's an incredibly attractive target for propagandists trying to insert their views and spins, and while the community generally manages to keep a rein on that for topic that get international attention, those which don't can be effectively captured by coordinated groups. To say nothing about the smaller international Wikipedias.
Re:Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in... by oneshtein on Monday September 04, 2023 @11:03AM (#37381142)
Wikipedia is extremely good at keeping and reinforcing a most popular point of view. Russians are using Wikipedia a lot, for example.
Re:Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in... by tetromino_ on Monday September 04, 2023 @11:02AM (#37381137)
Many English Wikipedia articles about Eastern European history are propaganda from one of the sides. In some cases it's a deliberate effort by irredentist editors from whichever country to push their cause; in other cases, it's a result of editors from outside the region who can't read any of the the relevant languages and therefore don't understand that they are using biased sources uncritically.
Re:Battle of Hodów: When 400 Poles repelled 40,000 Tatars in... by consilient on Monday September 04, 2023 @11:11AM (#37381230)
> Or do you consider wikipedia also propagandist?

The Wikimedia Foundation itself is not, but there are absolutely cliques of editors pushing propaganda.