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Semi-protected edit request on 19 September 2018

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In the introduction, there's a statement that "Stalin died". Could you change that to "Stalin died"? A link saying only "died" makes it look like someone linked the death article, but if a link says "Stalin died", its only sensible destination is to an article on Stalin's death. 208.95.51.53 (talk) 18:01, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Laszlo Panaflex (talk) 18:17, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Let's talk about the "Stalinist One Party Dictatorship" Government

So, it says that from 1922-27 the Soviet Union was a Federal Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic which is very accurate. However, it says that from 1927-53, it was a "Stalinist one-party totalitarian dictatorship". I have a lot of issues with this.

For one, does this mean it ceased being a federal state when Stalin came to power? Because it wasn't, it was in fact during Stalin's leadership that many of the republics were born within the USSR. The other thing is that Stalinism isn't an ideology comparable to that of Marxism-Leninism, it was simply the governing and related policy of Stalin in his leadership (as described by the Wikipedia page of Stalinism). My last criticism is that it was Stalin who came up with the term "Marxism-Leninism" in the first place, this just doesn't make sense.

This should be changed from what it is now to 1922-1990: Federal Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic. It doesn't help that the current replacement for Stalin's period of leadership has only one source that just says that it was a dictatorship and doesn't prove anything. We should also change the RSFSR page to say the same thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xelathing (talk • contribs) 14:01, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 19:22, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Two identical quotations by Zubok

The article quotes Vladislav Zubok twice, saying the same thing, once in the lead section, once in the section "Dissolution". Presumably one of these would be sufficient, but I will not try to decide which one. Bruce leverett (talk) 02:26, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Missing bibliographic item

There is a citation of "Smith 1976", but the actual bibliographic entry for that book seems to have been removed in this edit: [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruce leverett (talk • contribs) 15:29, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 15 October 2018 - 16 October 218

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96.87.148.89 (talk) 16:01, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 16:18, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Motto

I somehow doubt that the official motto of the USSR was "Suka Blyat". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.72.119 (talk) 05:50, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Someone screwed with the motto

Should be “Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!” Arkadios 200 (talk) 08:47, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 6 December 2018

{{edit Open Started of Soviet Union=December,7th,2018

96.87.148.89 (talk) 20:55, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]