Talk:Alexandru Moghioroș

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Spreading disinformation using the free encyclopaedia[edit]

This article currently spreads disinformation authored by Virgil Lazăr, from the Romanian school of journalism that infamously "discovered" the hen that gave live birth. Starting from a well established fact (with the mechanization of agriculture, horses became less useful and consumed resources that could have been invested in more profitable livestock), this "journalist" creates a grotesque story in the "best" traditions of yellow journalism. Using exaggerated figures (the number of "slaughtered" horses) and patently false information (the closure of horse stud farms), this author falsifies history for no apparent reason other than portraying a long dead politician as a sadistic monster. It is no surprise that such stories were only picked up by tabloid televisions such as Romania TV or conspiracy theorists such as Daniel Roxin, as anyone who has ever worked in horse breeding or has some basic knowledge about the history of Romanian animal husbandry can only laugh at such claims. For reference, the figures cited here are much higher than the number of horses killed during World War II and would have amounted to 80% of the horses in the country, a massacre that would have surely left marks in the memory of a mostly rural people, as were the Romanians at the time. The problem is that pupils come to this online encyclopaedia and believe anything listed here to be reliable, and hence they come up with such absurd stories in their reports. And while in the classroom we can show them their baselessness by comparing them with actual statistics and reports about the uninterrupted tradition of Romanian stud farms, this is not allowed on Wikipedia! I tried to add information from the official statistics yearbook, as well as from official pages of the stud farms (the ones that were supposedly closed since 1957), yet these were instantly removed. As I understand Wikipedia has no central editorial board, I can only surmise Virgil Lazăr or one of his friends is abusing the mechanisms of the encyclopaedia in order to deliberately spread disinformation (or does it in order to preserve his reputation by hiding information that prove he engaged in the basest level of yellow journalism) 213.233.110.102 (talk) 13:30, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023[edit]

I am reverting the latest additions, per WP:SYNTH and WP:NOR. It’s not enough to show that horse populations fell only slightly, or that horse breeding still happens in Romania. We need a source explicitly countering the previous claim, i.e. stating outright that Moghioroș did not order a mass slaughter. — Biruitorul ^Talk 04:56, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]