Your teachers weren’t gaslighting you, stop using that word when you mean lying.
Wikipedia may have sited sources but those sources can, and have been, incorrect many times. Misleading information is still prevalent on the site. So even if you steal the sources Wikipedia uses in their articles you better dig deeper because that shit is nefarious. Wikipedia is not immune to western propaganda. They pick and choose what info to put out there from the sources knowing most, like OP, won’t read deeper into anything they site. You’ll just take their word for it.
Sources, by themselves, don’t mean anything. A whole lot of terrible scholarship has tons of sources. It depends on how reliable they are, and how you use them.
Can’t believe you have to go to a communist website to say something so obvious and elementary (and, you would think, uncontroversial).
I don’t want to risk getting doxed by frogs and NAFO shibas yet.