Talk:76th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)

A fact from 76th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 November 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Soviet 76th "K. Y. Voroshilov" Division passed through 7,000 kilometres of former Soviet territory during the Second World War, liberating over 600 towns and cities from Axis occupying forces?

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Isn't the reliability of official Soviet sources rather questionable? --Gerrit ^CUTEDH 16:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Quite the contrary, Soviet sources are quite precise and accurate so long as the topic is as uncontroversial as a WWII fighting unit. Normally you wouldn't use it as a source to describe the actions of Alexander Solzhentisen but the sources they draw from come from the Soviet archives and historians. --MarshallBagramyan 17:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]