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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:31, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Vsevolod Kukushkin

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~~... that Russian journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin has been called the "dean of European hockey writers"?~~ [1][2]
- ALT1:... that Russian journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin said the Soviet Union national ice hockey team was nicknamed "The Red Machine" due to a Minneapolis newspaper headline? [3]

Reviewed: Moscow State Jewish Theatre

Created by Flibirigit (talk). Self-nominated at 20:54, 15 August 2019 (UTC).

New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. QPQ done. I prefer the ALT1 hook fact for color, but the source seems to say that the nickname is "The Big Red Machine". I suggest beginning the hook: "... that according to Russian journalist Vsevolod Kukushkin..." Yoninah (talk) 00:45, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

The cited source says The exhibition “The Red Machine. Race for gold” has been opened on the second floor. The press was led by Vsevolod Kukushkin, a famous journalist who presented his book with the same name – “The Red Machine”. “Do you know how this nickname, which got tied to our hockey, got to be?” asked Kukushkin. “It happened in January 1983. Our players were finishing their tour in North America. They arrived in Minneapolis. We open the papers and see the headline: ‘The Red Machine rolled down on us.’ I believe the hook is properly cited. Flibirigit (talk) 23:32, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

But that same source continues: "Only then, in his next article, the journalist called us 'The Big Red Machine', so as not to mistake us with the baseball team of Detroit." Yoninah (talk) 21:28, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

The source states the nickname came from the newspaper headline in Minneapolis, and not from a subsequent article. Flibirigit (talk) 21:53, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

OK. I'm going by the book title. ALT1 hook ref verified and cited inline. Rest of review above. ALT1 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 18:52, 19 September 2019 (UTC)