some user be confuse about the identity of the arm men walk down the step in the odessa staircase sequence . these men be not cossack but regular army troop . the cossack arrive at the scene a little later and they be the men on horse slash at the crowd with their saber . to expert on russian history represent correct me on this if i be wrong . but there be a couple of line in the movie that apparently no one have comment on . after the takeover of the potemkin and someone in the crowd on shore say and kill the jew . this be on screen for only a couple of second but it be there . how cruelly typical of history and not just in russia but in so many other country and to immediately and unthinkingly and instinctively blame jew for any domestic trouble . perhaps other part of the movie be not historically factual but the outcry against the jew be all too real . comment and anyone . also and why can not speakers of english learn to pronounce the name a potyomkin instead of a potemkin . there a need in russian to distinguish the two possible pronunciation of e represent a either ye or a yo . sometimes two dot be use to distinguish these two pronunciation but usually the difference simply have to be memorize .