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== Cyrillic in Wikipedia ==

Please see the new page at [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Cyrillic)]], aimed at 
#  Documenting the use of Cyrillic and its transliteration in Wikipedia
#  Discussing potential revision of current practices
''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2005-12-9&nbsp;20:34&nbsp;Z</small>''

== F-34 tank gun nominated for DYK ==

I've nominated [[F-34 tank gun]] for [[WP:DYK]].  Feel free to improve the wording of the submission, at [[template talk:Did you know#January 19]].  ''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2006-01-24&nbsp;06:38&nbsp;Z</small>''

== foreign relations ==

What is particularly intresting about USSR was their foreign policies.they would buy sugar from cuba at inflated prices and sell petroleum at deflated prices.at one point of time,the entire cuban economy was running on USSR funds.
Today,Soviet weapons have found a place among almost all nations, militants and rebels alike.the best example being [[AK-47]], which was invented by then Soviet,but now Russian Kaleshnikov.
The AK-47 is the most preffered automatic gun throughout the world. and it is manufactured by various companies outside USSR.
They also sold [[Gorshkov Aircraft Carrier]] to India.
they sold innumerable number of aircrafts especailly the migs and sukhois to countries from Argentina to North Korea.
also mentionable is the [[Excocet]] missiles given to argentina,
the funding of eritrean rebels,arms to Nicaragua,etc
i will add more.anybody who find the above intresting and worthy,please expand it.--[[User:Jayanthv86|Jayanthv86]] 19:15, 19 January 2006 (UTC)


well one of the most '''important''' things has been left out of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union|WPSU]].The Secret Service and Intelligence agencies.The very word Soviet brings along with it KGB,FSB,and many other famous institutions.So,i have added Secret services and miltary agenciesof USSR in the Category list.

:Good work. - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 16:22, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

== Naming conventions ==

With most of the ministry/department names, we have a number of pieces of information we might want to include:

* [[contraction]] in [[cyrillic]] (e.g. Госплан)
* [[contraction]] [[transliterated]] (e.g. Gosplan)
* full name in Russian [[cyrillic]] (e.g. Государственный комитет по планированию)
* full name in Russian [[transliterated]] (e.g. Gosudarstvenny Komitet po Planirovaniyu)
* full name in English (e.g. State Committee for Planning)

What do you reckon the best way of getting this information into the article would be? Personally I think using the transliterated contraction and then have an stub article about each one. This article can include the rest of the information along with a brief description of what the ministry/department does. Like I  have done for [[Gosstandart]], [[Goskomtrud]] and [[Gosstroy]] (they aren't perfect I'd appreciate your input).

Also, which should be '''bold''', which should be ''italicised'' which should be in parentheses etc.? - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 02:37, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

: This is a very good question, far wider than dept. titles or even WPSU. Perhaps we can cook something up based on [[:Template:lang-ru]]. Some fields would be optional. [[User:Humus sapiens|<nowiki></nowiki>]]&larr;[[User:Humus sapiens|Humus sapiens]][[User talk:Humus_sapiens|&larr;ну?]] 00:41, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

::Sounds good, but which fields/information should we include? - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 00:51, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Some comments:
* Just bolding the main title term has the best impact.  Sometimes it's necessary to bold two or more equally-prominent names, often for reasons of national respect, but bolding a half-dozen terms in the first line or throughout the article merely adds clutter.
* Italicizing Cyrillic text can be problematic for display, if it includes unusual letters or diacritics.  The different alphabet is self-evident, so I avoid italicizing Cyrillic merely to show that it's a foreign language.
* Italicizing transliterations or first occurrences of new terms is a good idea.
* If the set of alternate, transliterated, Cyrillic, and other-language names gets long, it works well to put it in stand-alone parentheses at the end of the lead paragraph, or even in a separate paragraph if there is some explanation required.
Transliteration requires some discussion too, but I have to run for now.  ''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2005-11-14&nbsp;19:19&nbsp;Z</small>''

Agree with first 3 points. Regarding your last point, I think that is what is best done with the full name in English (i.e. explain what it is in the text). How about this:

:'''Gosplan''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Госплан; '''Гос'''ударственный комитет по '''план'''ированию; ''Gosudarstvenny Komitet po Planirovaniyu'')
:'''Gosplan''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: '''Гос'''ударственный комитет по '''план'''ированию; ''Gosudarstvenny Komitet po Planirovaniyu'')
:'''Gosplan''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: '''Госплан'''), was a contraction of ''Gosudarstvenny Komitet po Planirovaniyu'' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Государственный комитет по планированию)

To be honest I'm not entirely happy with any of these and would welcome more input. Another way of solving this (at least for state organs) would be to have a template like the country template I suppose... - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 22:24, 14 November 2005 (UTC)


: I always try to minimize brackets, punctuation, bolding, and language links (pretty much minimize everything).  Indicating the word fragments that make up the contraction is usually not necessary, but if it were then I think I would prefer italics.  If the parenthetic matter is longer than the lead sentence, I prefer to move it down.  How about this:

:: '''Gosplan''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Госплан, contraction of Государственный комитет по планированию, ''Gosudarstvenny Komitet po Planirovaniyu'') was the committee for economic planning in the Soviet Union. . . .

: Sometimes a precise translation is needed too, which I usually put in quotation marks (Excuse my translation; I'm just guessing here):

:: '''Gosplan''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Госплан, contraction of Государственный комитет по планированию, ''Gosudarstvenny Komitet po Planirovaniyu'', "Economic Committee for Planning") was the . . .

: Lately I've sometimes put the transliteration first, which is more accessible to anglophones, then the Cyrillic second.  I wish we used a transliteration system that was more disciplined, and consistent across languages.  Then this would suffice:

:: '''Gosplan''' ([[Russian language|Russian]], contraction of ''Gosudarstvenny Komitet po Planirovaniyu'') was the committee for economic planning in the Soviet Union. . . .

: Minimizing extraneous material and formatting helps keep the focus on the subject, which becomes painfully important when more languages enter into it.  A couple of examples: [[Volodymyr-Volyns'kyi]], [[Polesie]], where the nomenclature was moved down.   ''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2005-11-14&nbsp;22:50&nbsp;Z</small>''

:: Please use/improve [[:Template:Russianterm]]. See example in [[Gosstandart]]. I listed abbreviated and full terms on the same line separated by parentheses. &larr;[[User:Humus sapiens|Humus sapiens]][[User talk:Humus sapiens|&larr;ну?]] 03:13, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

===Narkomology===
:::Recently [[User:DonaldDuck|Editor Duck]] has implemented a number of name changes as regards the title pages of Commissariat pages, changing them from their ''Narkom***'' form to a ''People's Commissariat of ***''. Unfortunately this precipitous action was not taken following a ventilation of these issues upon these pages, and I am hoping that we can have a full and frank discussion here, as I feel it is an important way by which we can help gain some level of consistency.
Currently I favour the Narkom*** form for the following reasons.:
#The popular abbreviation is what the organisations were generally called
#English language texts tend to call these organisations by these popular abbreviations in the body of the text, which means that anyone who has been exposed to this material will be readily familiarised with the terms.
#We can use the same term regardless of language. With modern automated web-based translation facilities currently available, this will facilitate those with limited language versatility access a broader range of material written in various languages
#We are already adopting other abbreviations (such as [[Muskom]] should be called '''Central Commissariat of Muslim affairs in Inner Russia and Siberia''', [[Goskomtrud]] - '''State Committee for Labour and Social Problems''', [[Goskino]] '''State Committee for Cinematography'''.
#A further consequential discussion would be the renaming of organisations [[Roskultura]] to '''Federal Agency on Culture and Cinematography''' . . . and so the issue gets broader . . .
I would be grateful if people could give this topic some attention as I feel it has significant ramifications. If there are suitable counter-arguments, I would be happy to change my view, but I am at present left wondering what those arguments might be!!![[User:Harrypotter|Harrypotter]] ([[User talk:Harrypotter|talk]]) 19:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

# Describing the world of Soviet officialdom, full forms like ''People's Commissariat of ***'' are preferable, as official name of organisations, even when abbreviations are more popular. At least in the titles of the articles.
# Not every Commissariat has established abbreviation. What is the "Narkom***" form for the People’s Commissariat of Ship-Building or People’s Commissariat of River transport??[[User:DonaldDuck|DonaldDuck]] ([[User talk:DonaldDuck|talk]]) 09:47, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

== Infoboxes ==

Should the Soviet Republics infobox be changed to use the same type of layout as the ASSR infobox? - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 00:34, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

== Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics ==

Is it worthwhile standardising the names of the articles of the ASSRs ? e.g. at the moment we have some like [[Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]] spelt out in full, and some like [[Moldavian ASSR]] acronymised. If it is worthwhile, which would be preferred. My opinion would be spell it all out with _ASSR as a redirect. - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 00:45, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
*Sounds good to me (ASSR as a redirect, I mean). We should also start creating some kind of To-Do list of all things Soviet that don't have their own articles yet, i.e. red links. [[User:KNewman|KNewman]] 02:46, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

::I agree, feel free to add stuff to the Todo list on the main page. It was with this in mind that I created the ASSR template, all those fun red links to fill in. :) Maybe red links should also be listed under Requests on the page? - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 03:28, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

I am not sure whether the long form is really better. If so, shouldnt it first be done for the SSRs? To spell out AO is ok, because it is not that long. What about SFSRs? The ASSR have the shortet form partially in their flag, so it is really official to use ASSR. [[User:Tobias Conradi|Tobias Conradi]] [[User_talk:Tobias Conradi|(Talk)]] 14:19, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

:I've standardised all to use "Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic", since the majority already seemed to do that. &mdash;[[User:Nightstallion|<span style="font-variant:small-caps">Nightst</span>]][[User:Nightstallion/esperanza|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color:green;">a</span>]][[User:Nightstallion|<span style="font-variant:small-caps">llion</span>]] [[User talk:Nightstallion|''(?)'']] 19:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

== Separate articles for ASSRs? ==

I have noticed trend of creating separate articles on ASSR, then the article on the present respublics are present. So we have separate articles on:
*[[Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]] and [[Buryatia]],
*[[Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]] and [[Bashkortostan]],
etc.

I think separating already short articles into a pair of stubs is coutnerproductive and akin to have sparate articles on Saint Petersburg, Petrograd and Leningrad or Gorky and Nizhny Novgorod. I think we should use the present name of the republics and have the ASSR name as a redirect. An obvious extemption is the case then the Republic does not exist anymore as Checheno-Ingushskaya ASSR or Volga German ASSR. [[User:Alex Bakharev|abakharev]] 00:19, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

:Ok, sounds good to me. Then we just merge the ASSR history etc. into the new republic article? Agree with exempting republics that no longer exist. Should we then do the same with SSR and SFSR articles too? e.g. merge the content from Kyrgyz_SSR to Kyrgyzstan? Keeping ones like TSFSR where the republic no longer exists. - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 01:46, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

I would keep all the Soviet Union stuff seperated. The ASSR template that connects all the ASSR is not very logic on a Bashkiria page. And then we have the no more existing entities anyway. Can we add flags to all the ASSR articles? Like on [[Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic]]? What about maps? The [[:Category:Autonomous republics of the Soviet Union]] gives an overview of all existing ASSR articles (stubs). [[User:Tobias Conradi|Tobias Conradi]] [[User_talk:Tobias Conradi|(Talk)]] 14:38, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

== Categories ==

Should some of the categories be renamed to conform to a standard way of arranging them? i.e. Soviet state -> State organisations in the Soviet Union, or Soviet media -> Media in the Soviet Union ? Could some of the categories be merged / split? - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 19:16, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
:I should prefer "Government of the Soviet Union", like for subcats in the category [[:Category:Government by country|Category:Government by country]]. As concerns the media, current category looks good to me, like most of categories in [[:Category:Media by country|Category:Media by country]]. [[User:Cmapm|Cmapm]] 02:39, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
::mmmh the cat has spanish media along with argentine media. If it is a "by country" category the country name should be used as in other country cats. E.g. it is not clear what is meant by German media. [[User:Tobias Conradi|Tobias Conradi]] [[User_talk:Tobias Conradi|(Talk)]] 14:51, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Please kpep in mind that "Government" and "State" are different things. Government is part of state even in formal sense. [[user:mikkalai|mikka]] [[user talk:mikkalai|(t)]] 23:28, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

:Yes, I've just noticed, that there is some non-governmental stuff in the category, that stuff relates to the "state". But it seems, that there is no (or there is a few) categories for other countries, similar to "Soviet state". Therefore, I think, a new subcategory "Government of the Soviet Union" should be created, either inside the "Soviet state" category or inside the "Soviet Union" category. It should include all "governmental" stuff from the category "Soviet state". [[User:Cmapm|Cmapm]] 19:03, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

::Would "Soviet state" not be the same as "Soviet Union" ? Also, agree with idea of having a "Government of the Soviet Union" Category inside "Soviet Union". Welcome to have more input as I'm not entirely certain of the distinction. - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 20:51, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

:::I've created the category, the only thing, I'm not sure in, is whether "passport system" article should belong to the "government" category. [[User:Cmapm|Cmapm]] 22:49, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

::::I'd say yes unless someone objects? - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 16:58, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

== Soviet COA in templates ==

Should we replace the current image (with no source) with a sourced one from the following article: [[Coat of Arms of the Soviet Union]]? [[User:Cmapm|Cmapm]] 02:39, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

:Yes, care to do the honours? :) - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 20:57, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

::No problem. [[User:Cmapm|Cmapm]] 21:35, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

== Comecon ==

Should the articles on the [[Comecon]] be part of this WikiProject? I'm of two minds, on one hand, Comecon was conceived in the Soviet Union, on the other hand it was really an international phenomenon. Is there a WikiProject Communism that might be interested in them? - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 22:49, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

== A Question ==

Hello there! I'm currently working in improving the quality of several articles related to the [[Soviet war in Afghanistan]]. Does that mean that I qualify to work with you guys? I think that this war was also one of the mayor factors behind the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]]. Cheers! and I'm waiting for the answer ! [[User:Messhermit|Messhermit]] 02:29, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
:Don't ask permissions in wikipedia and welcome, despite your suspicious name :-). [[user:mikkalai|mikka]] [[user talk:mikkalai|(t)]] 03:32, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

== Soviet Union up to WP:WIAFA ==

Just throwing this open for people to make suggestions as to how we can improve [[Soviet Union]] so its up to [[WP:WIAFA]] standards. Do you think there is anything particularly missing? Any way of formatting it better, adding more pics, removing pics, removing info? With everything we've got I don't think we can be very far off. - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 00:15, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

:I'm currently improving the one in Wiki:ES. I will say that what we need is pictures and to separate the article a little bit more in smaller sections. [[User:Messhermit|Messhermit]] 16:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

== [[Konstantin Chernenko]] ==

An anonymous editor keeps removing pictures of Chernenko from this article on the basis of them being propagandistic and POV.  I am currently in [[Talk:Konstantin Chernenko|discussion]] with that person, but an outside opinion would be helpful, too.  Thank you.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis)]] 16:08, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

:I already give my opinion over there, and I agree with you in that the picture itself is not propaganda and not copyvio. I will also keep an eye on it to prevent this rv war. [[User:Messhermit|Messhermit]] 16:55, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
::Please see my comment to your comment [[Talk:Konstantin Chernenko|here]].&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis)]] 17:36, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
:Ditto. PS. Considered joining us in this fine wikiproject? :) - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 16:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
::Thanks.  I can definitely occasionally lend a hand here and there, but I already am involved in too many projects for the limited time budget I am on.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis)]] 17:36, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
:Cool! Thanks for that. Any help in the Soviet Afghan War would be great ! [[User:Messhermit|Messhermit]] 16:58, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

== Broadcasting/Automobile industry in the Soviet Union ==

Two questions in one:

1. In terms of [[broadcasting]] in the Soviet Union, there is an issue.  I have already contributed information to the [[Soviet television]] article, and I'm still surfing around for information regarding the [[Soviet radio]] system, even though I'm surrounded by WRTHs and copies of "Passport to World Band Radio".  I'm wondering if it's possible to do a general article that mentions to both Soviet radio and television or if they should remain separate articles, since they were both parallel structures.  Plus, how are we going to tackle broadcasting in the FSU post-1991?

2. In regards to the [[Soviet automobile industry]], [[User:DmitryKo|DmitryKo]], whom I met through [http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums GMInsideNews.com], could possibly help out; I just need to send a PM to him.  However, I have a question in terms of that: are we going to have one article as a portal to the many different companies of the Soviet era, such as [[AvtoVAZ]]?  If we want to get started, I can suggest [http://autosoviet.altervista.org Autosoviet] and [http://sovauto.cjb.net Sovauto] to give everyone a general idea.

Just a few ideas.  [[User:DanCBJMS|Daniel Blanchette]] 00:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

:1. No problem with having a [[Broadcasting in the Soviet Union]] article, or perhaps [[Media in the Soviet Union]] ? We can always merge/de-merge. [[WP:Bold|Be Bold]]! :) 
:*See [[:Category:Soviet media]]. [[user:mikkalai|mikka]] [[user talk:mikkalai|(t)]] 19:11, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

:2. No reason why we shouldn't have a whole article on it, if there is enough material, might be worth adding it as a section to [[Economy of the Soviet Union]] and then splitting it out if it gets too big? - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 00:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

::Okay, how's this for a start, either as an article or as part of the Soviet Union's Economy article?  If [[User:DmitryKo|Dmitry]] is still around, he can edit this draft, since he knows more than I do.

::Obviously, I still need to add more information, especially since I know there were other companies, such as [[IZh]], which manufactured Moskvitches, but were always more powerful, or like RAF, which made vans.  This means I'll have to look more closely at Autosoviet and Sovauto.  Other than that, how was that for a first try?
::-[[User:DanCBJMS|Daniel Blanchette]] 01:19, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

:::If you've got that much man, [[WP:Bold|BE BOLD]]! :) - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 01:29, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

::::All right then, the "[[Automobile industry of the Soviet Union]]" page is up and running.  What do you think?  I'll think of something for broadcasting in the Soviet Union. -[[User:DanCBJMS|Daniel Blanchette]] 05:05, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

:::::Looks good (PS. I removed the copy here, I hope thats ok, if not, feel free to add it back) :) - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 12:17, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

::::::Okay, I'm thinking about merging the [[Radio in the Soviet Union]] and the [[Television in the Soviet Union]] article into one [[Broadcasting in the Soviet Union]] article, since most of it from both sides is mostly repetition.  This is what I think the article should look like.  This is pretty much a general outline.  If no one objects I'll go ahead with it.

::::::-beginning of article-
::::::Broadcasting in the Soviet Union was owned by the state and was under its tight control and censorship.

::::::The governing body in the late [[Soviet Union]] was "USSR State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting", or USSR Gosteleradio (Государственный комитет по телевидению и радиовещанию СССР, Гостелерадио СССР), which was in charge both of Soviet TV and Soviet radio.

::::::1. The problem of broadcasting in the Soviet Union
::::::[[Television in the Soviet Union#Television services|Information in the first two paragraphs]]

::::::2. Radio services
::::::NB: The following information is from the [[1990]] edition of the [[WRTH]].
:::::::2a. Home Services
:::::::Although the Soviet Union had [[domestic]] [[shortwave]] stations, most of the radio stations operated in the [[AM band]].  In typical Soviet fashion, the sites of both domestic AM and SW stations was never disclosed (including the frequencies that they operated on), thus leaving [[SWLs]] wanting to tune into Soviet radio to memorize the frequencies and remember where the sites were.  However, the AM/SW programming was relayed on FM, using the [[OIRT]] [[FM band]] (66-73 MHz).

:::::::There were three national radio channels.  The first was the All-Union First Programme.  (Time-shifting patterns can be found at [[Television in the Soviet Union#Soviet satellite services|this page]])  The second channel was called "Radio Mayak".  Mayak is Russian for "lighthouse", and thus is an all-union musical and literary channel designed to be the "lighthouse" of Soviet music and literature.  The Third Programme also was a musical and literary channel, but mostly pop music.

:::::::2b. External services
:::::::Most people who have listened to shortwave are familiar with Radio Moscow, the main Soviet shortwave radio station.  However, that's only part of the picture.  Soviet radio also had Radio Station Peace and Progress, officially called the "Voice of Soviet Public Opinion".  Most republics also had an external service, relayed by Radio Moscow's transmitters.  Radio Moscow also relayed other radio stations from their satellite states, such as Radio [[Afghanistan]].

::::::3. Television services
::::::See [[Television in the Soviet Union#Television services|Television in the Soviet Union]].

::::::4. Regional/Satellite services
::::::See [[Television in the Soviet Union#Regional services|Television in the Soviet Union]] (also [[Television in the Soviet Union#Soviet satellite services|Soviet satellite services]]) for a basic outline.  I plan to elaborate further on it for the radio side.

::::::-end of article-
::::::I also want to include information about programming in each section.  Again, this is only a general idea.  If there are no objections, I'm going ahead with it. -[[User:DanCBJMS|Daniel Blanchette]] 02:09, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

:::::::All right, though I didn't completely merge the [[Television in the Soviet Union]] and [[Radio in the Soviet Union]] articles, the [[Broadcasting in the Soviet Union]] article is up and running.  How does it look?  -[[User:DanCBJMS|Daniel Blanchette]] 03:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

== Barnstar ==

[[Image:Hero of the USSR Gold Star.png|left|32px]]Who is an artist here, to make a Soviet [[barnstar]] out of [[:Image:Hero of the USSR Gold Star.png|right|64px]]? [[user:mikkalai|mikka]] [[user talk:mikkalai|(t)]] 19:40, 11 December 2005 (UTC)



:That one is a bit tricky, but I made one out of [[Hero of Socialist Labour]] (its more the same shape as a barnstar), it still needs some tidying up around the edges I think though (hard to see when you're in transparency:

:[[Image:Wpsu Barnstar.png]]

:If I get time to fix it I'll upload another one. What do you think? I can try and do a Hero of the USSR one if you think it'd be better... - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 20:29, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

::Hopefully it looks better now with some artifacts shaved off... - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 20:38, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
:::I like it. [[user:mikkalai|mikka]] [[user talk:mikkalai|(t)]] 01:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
::::I hope I am not too late, but here is my offering:
:[[:Image:WPSU Prize.png]]

::::This design I based off the "State Prize" and "Lenin Prize" medals. [[User:Zscout370|Zach]] <sup>[[User_talk:Zscout370|(Smack Back)]]</sup> 04:41, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
:::::[[Image:WPSU Barnstar.svg]]
:::::I think this is what Mikka might have wanted. [[User:Zscout370|Zach]] <small><sup>[[User_talk:Zscout370|(Smack Back)]] [[WP:FU|Fair use policy]] </sup></small> 05:58, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

== Posters on Commons ==

Hey all, I've moved all of the posters I could find in [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD_Soviet Category:PD_Soviet] to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Soviet_propaganda Category:Soviet propaganda]. Enjoy! :) PS. If you wish, please see the talk page for my move suggestion. If anyone has any other suggestions for media sorting on commons, feel free to post here. - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 17:13, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

== Peer review of T-34 ==

The article "[[T-34]]" about the famous tank from Kharkov is up for peer review, with the intention of nominating it for a featured article.  Please comment at [[Wikipedia:Peer review/T-34/archive1]].  Thanks.  ''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2005-12-20&nbsp;06:34&nbsp;Z</small>''

:Consider it commented upon :) - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 04:49, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

== New article: [[aerosan]] ==

New artice [[aerosan]]; I'll submit it to DYK shortly.  ''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2006-02-02&nbsp;06:19&nbsp;Z</small>''

:Very nice! Great work :) - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 16:28, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

:: Thank you!  ''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2006-02-02&nbsp;16:43&nbsp;Z</small>''

== Polish/Baltic POV ==

I don't know if somebody have notice, but most of the criticism and vandalism done to the USSR article (and some related to the same topic) are made by users that are also interested in these 2 regions. Is there a way that we may create a common front against some of the most biased POV that they have? [[User:Messhermit|Messhermit]] 19:17, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

:I would agree that these users do have a certain POV that they like to get accross. Sometimes they do it reasonably, and sometimes not. Regarding the [[Soviet Union]] page, unless there are presented ''specific'' complaints and ''specific'' remedies, I would suggest that we merely revert POV insertion on sight. I can't quite understand what the guy on [[Talk:Soviet Union]]'s complaint is, perhaps he hasn't read [[Religion in the Soviet Union]]:

::''As for the Russian Orthodox Church, Soviet authorities have sought to control it and, in times of national crisis, to exploit it for the regime's own purposes; but their ultimate goal has been to eliminate it. During the first five years of Soviet power, the Bolsheviks executed 28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,200 Russian Orthodox priests. Many others were imprisoned or exiled. Believers were harassed and persecuted. Most seminaries were closed, and publication of most religious material was prohibited. By 1941 only 500 churches remained open out of about 54,000 in existence prior to World War I.''

:Needless to say, the USSR is a big topic for one article, we certainly shouldn't give ''undue weight'' to any particular POV. - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 19:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

== Five-Year Plan ==

I think we should consider moving this article to [[Five-Year Plan (Soviet Union)]] to make space for a disambiguation page at [[Five-Year Plan]] for [[Five-Year Plan (India)]] and [[Five-Year Plan (China)]]. What do other people think? 

Another option would be to make the [[Five-Year Plan]] article a basic introduction to Five-Year Plans then have separate articles for each country. I'd welcome other input. :) - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 11:15, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

== Soviet Antarctic Expedition ==

I've gone about creating some articles on this matter, and it occurred to me, should we have an infobox or something? Articles I've created - mostly listed on [[List of Antarctica expeditions]] - (feel free to expand):

*[[Soviet Antarctic Expedition]]
**[[List of Antarctic expeditions by the Soviet Union]] 
***[[First Soviet Antarctic Expedition]]
***[[Fourth Soviet Antarctic Expedition]]
***[[Eleventh Soviet Antarctic Expedition]]
***[[Twelfth Soviet Antarctic Expedition]]
*[[Mikhail Somov]]
*[[Yevgeny Tolstikov]]
*[[Aleksei Treshnikov]]
*[[Aleksandr Dralkin]]

Also, some form of categorisation might be nice, any ideas? Also perhaps they could be renamed? - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 21:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

== dilemma with Soviet losses in WW2 ==

I have a dilemma with Soviet losses. Here are the facts:<br/>
1- The Russian Academy of Science published a report in 1993 that gave data on the demographic impact of the war on the USSR. The losses were 26.6 million including 17 million draft aged males.<br/>
2-The official Russian military report published in 1993 listed 6.9 million confirmed dead plus 1.8 million POW and MIA deaths combined. They claim 4.5 million POW & MIA less 2.7 liberated in 1945. Net losses are 8.7 million.<br/>
3-The Germans claimed to have taken 5.7 million POW not counting Sov MIA.<br/>
4-Most western historians( I could make a list) give Sov POW losses as 3 million+. Not counting in MIA<br>
5-An independent Russian researcher Vadim Erlikman published in 2004 a handbook of statistics on war casualties(with decent footnotes) that claimed the USSR military losses were 10.6 million  in the war including 6.9 million Killed, 700,000 MIA, 2.6 million POW and 400,000 partisans and milita. His number of POW and MIA seems more credible than 1.8 million. Erlikman is not an apologist for the communist system or the Russian government. He listed an estimated 1.7 million dead due to Soviet repression in addition to war losses of 26.5 million<br/>
6-Back to the 2.7 million POWs and "Vlasovites" that were sent back to the USSR in 1945. I wonder how many are included in the total of 17 million draft aged males lost in the war. They were marched off to the Gulag. We just do not know their fate. <br/>
7-Please go to my talk page --[[User:Woogie10w|Woogie10w]] 00:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)to see a posting I copied from the Dupuy Forum on Soviet Casualties. Today there is a high level Russian military official( now he is head of the military archives) who claims there is a card file in Russia with the names of 13.8 million Soviet war dead.<br/>
I really need the help of people in Wikipedia who may have knowledge on this topic. We need to get the numbers right--[[User:Woogie10w|Woogie10w]] 00:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)<br/>

== [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team]] cooperation ==

Hello. I'm a member of the [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Version 1.0 Editorial Team]], which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment|these criteria]], and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured]], [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/List of A-Class articles|A-class]], B-class, or [[Wikipedia:Good articles|Good articles]], with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WPPlaces|all active Places WikiProjects]], and if you have any questions, ask me in the [[Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects|Work Via WikiProjects talk page]] or directly in my [[User talk:Titoxd|talk page]]. Thanks a lot! [[User:Titoxd|Tito]][[Wikipedia:Esperanza|<span style="color:#008000;">xd</span>]]<sup>([[User_talk:Titoxd|?!?]] - [[Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters/Flcelloguy's Tool|help us]])</sup> 18:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

== cleanup FAQ for non-english-speakers? ==

Folks, I've written/edited [[Special:Contributions/Jno|a few articles here]], but I'm a russian and not a writer and sometimes cannot realize how the article should be "cleaned up". For instance, [[Vympel R-33|R-33]] and [[GRAU]] articles. Can anyone explain me what's needed? They are now mere "fact lists", but should be "readable english". How to? --[[User:Jno|jno]] 16:56, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

:I'll go through and clean them up a bit. It is a good idea to ask here if you are unsure of something :) - [[User:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 17:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

== Photograph requested ==

Hi, I'm working on [[Tajik alphabet]] and am looking for a nice example of Tajik written in the Cyrillic alphabet (as it is currently). I've trawled google, and although I was ''eventually'' able to find a reasonably nice example of Tajik written in Latin, I can't find anything good for Cyrillic.

Do you guys have any photos that might do, or know where I might find one. Posters, leaflets, shop signs, that kind of thing would be ideal. Ideally something where you can read the text even at a low (200-300px) res. Thanks :) - [[User talk:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 19:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

:Hello, try googling in http://images.google.com/ using a search string: 

:site:tj 

:I found [http://tf-prs.tj/images/majl_namoyandagon_9.gif this] on the second page of results. [[User:Cmapm|Cmapm]] 20:19, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

::Actually thats not bad, do you know the copyright status on that? Still, would be nice to have something with a bit more colour, I will keep looking. Searching for high res images didn't bring up many results... - [[User talk:FrancisTyers|FrancisTyers]] 20:28, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

:::"Undefined" - no copyright notice on the website. The website seems to be close to the government, though... [[User:Cmapm|Cmapm]] 20:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

== Article needing attention ==

[[Soviet Union and the United Nations]] is the one in question. Looks extremely biased to me. I slapped the appropriate warning infoboxes and marked the questionable unreferenced statements, but it looks like a candidate for complete rewrite here, to be honest - something I do not have the time for at the moment. Seeing as how it falls under the coverage of this project, I wonder if some of you would consider cleaning it up? [[User:Int19h|int19h]] 12:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

== Islam in the Soviet Union ==

People might want to look at the article [[Islam in the Soviet Union]], could do with some editing. - [[User:f-m-t|FrancisTyers]] [[User_talk:f-m-t|·]] 10:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
:I see somebody had already done some cleaning up, and I fixed the references. [[User:TSO1D|TSO1D]] 18:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
::I'll have to check, but I remember that Manosij Guha, a former reporter with [[ARD]] and the former head of its [[New Delhi, India|New Delhi]] bureau, once wrote some articles on [[Central Asia]] for a back issue of the Passport to World Band Radio.  In one of the articles, he mentions that Soviet policy was liberal towards Islam becuase they hoped to win support in the [[Middle East]], which is mostly comprised of [[Islam|Muslims]], thus the Soviet Union tried not to offend Middle Easterners too much.  I'll have to check again; once I do, I'll mention it in the article with a proper reference. -[[User:DanCBJMS|Daniel Blanchette]] 01:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
:::AFAIR, religion matters were mostly ignored by the soviets. Many regimes in Africa, Asia, and Mid-East were supported just for claim to "select socialist orientation" (or for military bases in the best case). As for interim, there was a law of "Freedom of Conscience" which forbid religious discrimination. "If you are religious, then you are a bad boy regardless of the exact religion" was a motto of application of this law, but I cannot remember religion-related problems even in everyday occurrence. --[[User:Jno|jno]] 09:36, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
::::I don't understand what you mean when you say that the Soviets mostly ignored religious matters. I mean for the greater part of the USSR's history, the state carried out a wave of repression against religious institutions by closing down churches, deporting priests, etc. [[User:TSO1D|TSO1D]] 13:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
:::::About 1920..1940 (i.e. 20 years of 70+). It's not "the greater part of the USSR's history". The Russian Orthodoxal Church has officially supported the government in the Great Patriotic War (soviet part of WWII) which almost stopped repressions against the church institutions. There were a lot of another problems in religious life in the USSR: priests were made to report to KGB almost any person visited the church, some of them have jointed the CPSU, etc. My grandmother (born in 1907) was a religious woman, but avioded to visit churches: "All the popes are reds" was her explanation. In the times in question (1950s..1980s, AFAIU) when the most soviet activism in support of foreign regimes occured, the religion of that countires was mostly ignored, while internal "religion question" was definitely "solved". --[[User:Jno|jno]] 08:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
:::::P.S. some sources:
:::::*[http://www.pravoslavie.ru/news/050224133359 (rus) Announce of R.O.C. conference on 60-th annyvesary of the Victory] (particulary mentioned tank column "Dmitry Donskoy" and aviation squadron "Alexander Nevsky" formed on money collected by R.O.C.)
:::::*[http://www.pravoslavie.ru/enarticles/050516181431 (en) MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS PATRIARCH ALEXY OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA ON THE OCASSION OF THE 60-TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR]
:::::*[http://world-war.ru/foto/displayimage.php?album=9&pos=5 photo of "Dmitry Donskoy" tanks] (be careful, that site is very tedious!)
::::: --[[User:Jno|jno]] 09:17, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Well, I have done a litle on ths. Clearly it is a very complex business (not made easier by people squabbling about Xtianity). I have started an articles on [[Mullanur Vakhitov]],who played such an important role until hanged by the White Russians. Also [[Mirsaid Sultangaliev]] is a key figure. I have started work on the [[Muslim Socialist Committee of Kazan]], but [[Muskom]] will have to wait. The article itself is generally a rather vague gloss and needs to be pinned down to people, organisations and what they did., imo.[[User:Harrypotter|Harrypotter]] 15:57, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

== Economic Trends ==

I just did some reasearch on former soviet economics, and i think if i could aquire some graphs of GDP per head and such, i could make a good article about the soviet union versus other countries economically. Should I? or is it suffciantly covered with the Soviet economics article? Just let me know. --[[User:Thecrisis5|Zhukov]] 05:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

:[[WP:BOLD|be bold]]! :) - [[User:f-m-t|FrancisTyers]] [[User_talk:f-m-t|·]] 09:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

== Portal:Communism ==

Perhaps the newly created [[Portal:Communism]] can be useful. Cheers! [[User:Afonso Silva|Afonso Silva]] 14:06, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

== Central Asia ==

[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia|WikiProject Central Asia]] has just been created. It may overlap with some articles and subjects relevant to this WikiProject, so I thought I would put the word out here as well. [[User:Aelfthrytha|Aelfthrytha]] 21:19, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

== Georgia ==

There is a poll going down at [[Talk:Georgia (country)]], you guys might be interested. - [[User:f-m-t|FrancisTyers]] [[User_talk:f-m-t|·]] 17:55, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

== T-34 nominated for FA ==

[[Image:Soviet Tank T-34.jpg|left|80px]][[T-34]] is a candidate for featured article.  Please comment at [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/T-34/archive1]].  ''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2006-07-05&nbsp;23:07&nbsp;Z</small>''

== Portal:Soviet Union ==

Hello,
I am the sysop of th german vision of the [[:de:Portal:Sowjetunion|portal:USSR]], maybey the sysop of the english one, when he has build up the portal can connect me.

You can also send mee a message, if you have any ideas of connecting the german portals about the diviedes states of the USSR, like the russian portal, or the portal moscow. 

Therefore Please check [[:de:Benutzer:Manecke|User Manecke]]! 

With greatings manecke!

== Russian and Soviet military history task force ==

There is a proposal at the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history |Military History WikiProject]] to establish a Russian and Soviet military history task force.  Interested participants, please have a look at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Russian and Soviet military history task force |the new project page]].&nbsp;''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2006-10-19&nbsp;19:01&nbsp;Z</small>''

== Project directory ==

Hello. The [[WP:COUNCIL|WikiProject Council]] has recently updated the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory]].  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at [[User:B2T2/Portal]], listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding [[:Category:WikiProject assessments|assessment]], [[:Category:WikiProject peer reviews|peer review]], and [[:Category:Wikipedia collaborations|collaboration]] are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.   [[User:Badbilltucker2|B2T2]] 17:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

== WikiProject Former Countries ==

The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries|Former Countries WikiProject]] (formerly WP Historical States) is back up and running. Our aim is to improve the content and accesibilty of information on now-defunct states. I have just made some modifications to the {{tl|Infobox SSR}} template, including some of the features of the {{tl|Infobox Former Country}} template that we use over at WPFC. There is now a date-navigation feature at the top of the infobox. This shows the life span of the republic and allows you to jump directly to its predecessor and successor states. The infobox now also automatically generates categories for years of establishment and disestablishment. As an example, these changes can now be seen at [[Armenian SSR]]. The modifications are not noticeable if you do not fill in the extra fields, so there should be no disruptions. If there are any problems, questions or requests, please let me know.

Since it would be more accurate, would this project be interested in considering itself a child project of our group instead of (or maybe as well as) the Countries Wikiproject? - [[User:52 Pickup|52 Pickup]] 17:42, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

:As the modifications to Armenian SSR were reverted within 12hrs of me making them, it is pretty likely that not many people saw what I did and I would be interested in hearing from more people - so the link to the pre-revert version is [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Armenian_SSR&oldid=86526648 here]. - [[User:52 Pickup|52 Pickup]] 13:41, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

== ''Atomnaya Energiya'' article from 1974? ==

In [http://bovik.org/du/Levinskii74.pdf Levinskii, Y.V. (1974) "p-versus-T Phase Diagram of the Uranium-Oxygen System" ''Atomic Energy'' '''37'''(4):1075-6], as translated by [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]], there is a question about whether "UO<sub>3</sub>G" should actually be "UO<sub>3</sub>''','''G" (with a comma):

[[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg]]

Please see [[Talk:Uranium trioxide#Stone.27s missing comma theory|this discussion]] for more information.

Does anyone have access to the original Russian journal [http://www.springer.com/journal/10512/about ''Atomnaya Energiya''][http://ultra2.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/cpx/plsql/web_pie.display_record?i_cn=AENGAB][http://journalseek.net/cgi-bin/journalseek/journalsearch.cgi?field=issn&query=0004-7163]?  [http://www.springer.com/journal/10512/edboard Here is its editorial board] if that helps any. 

Do any of your local libraries have volume 37 from 1974? If so, please post on [[Talk:Uranium trioxide]] whether the original Russian version has a comma on that top-left label or not.  Thank you. [[User:LossIsNotMore|LossIsNotMore]] 22:43, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

== [[Wikipedia:Vernacular scripts]] ==

vote on the use of scripts--[[User:Dangerous-Boy|D-Boy]] 01:58, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

== Third opinion needed ==

{{user|Protos99}} keeps adding irrelevant lists in [[Soviet Empire]] article. Please help in dispute. `'[[user:mikkalai|mikkanarxi]] 20:21, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
*The guy appears to be a nutcase. He should be banned. [[User:KNewman|KNewman]] 20:28, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

== Jewish Communist Organizations template up for deletion. ==

[[Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Jewish_Communist_Organisations_in_Revolutionary_Russia]] 
--[[User:General Idea|General Idea]] 01:23, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

== Heroes of the Soviet Union ==

Should we create a list of such people (approx. 4,500 people) or category is really enough? I'd like to hear your comments on this one. I'll post this question at the Russian Portal as well. Cheers! [[User:KNewman|KNewman]] 18:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

== Military history of the Soviet Union FAR ==

[[Military history of the Soviet Union]] has been nominated for a [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_review|featured article review]]. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to [[Wikipedia:What is a featured article?|featured quality]]. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_review|here]]. Reviewers' concerns are [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/{{#if:{{{2|}}}|{{{2}}}|Military history of the Soviet Union}}|here]].
[[User:SandyGeorgia|Sandy<span style="color:green;">Georgia</span>]] ([[User talk:SandyGeorgia|Talk]]) 16:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

== Government copyright? ==

Does anybody know the status of government copyright of the Soviet Union?  [[:Image:Brezhnev.jpg]] for example claims it is PD because it is "public domain as it is a government image".--[[User:Konstable|Konstable]] 07:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Check the Russian Government to see if Soviet copyrights are still in effect. -[[User:DanCBJMS|Daniel Blanchette]] 20:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

== Broadcasting in the Soviet Union - what would it take to get it to Good Article status? ==

Okay, so since I created the [[Broadcasting in the Soviet Union]] article, I was wondering what it would take to get it to GA status.  I know I can update the "2005" sections in there to "2007" sections (since I recently bought the 2007 edition of the [[World Radio TV Handbook|WRTH]]), but I just want to know what it would take to bring it to Good Article status, and eventually Featured Article status. -[[User:DanCBJMS|Daniel Blanchette]] 20:54, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

== CPSU ==

Some question has emerged on how to deal with parties that were merged into and/or emerged out of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]. I suggest a centralized discussion at [[Talk:Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union#Separate_articles]]. --[[User:Soman|Soman]] 15:06, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

== [[Soviet occupation of Romania]] ==

There's a [[Talk:Soviet occupation of Romania|ongoing dispute]] about the title of this article. The main issue is whether the "occupation" part is a legitimate name for the presence of soviet troops in Romania between 1944 and 1958. Could you express your opinions about  it? (May i note that one of the main supporters of the current title doesn't think that [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Biruitorul&diff=118342033&oldid=118106355 Russians should join the discussion] because they are [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anonimu&diff=118342603&oldid=117262245 "forces of darkness" with "Satanic opinions"]?)[[User:Anonimu|Anonimu]] 10:32, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
:You can also look at the [[Allied occupation of Europe]] (with [[liberation of Europe]] linked to it). The article insists that <i>the Soviet Union occupied much of Eastern Europe</i>. In my opinion, in any war winners ''liberate'' and losers ''get occupied''. Everyone chooses which term applies to them better. ([[User:Igny|Igny]] 20:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC))

::"in any war winners ''liberate'' and losers ''get occupied''" :-D. I like that! You've nailed it! Thats the best way to look at POV-s. The only thing is, Eastern Europe came out of it after the collapse of the USSR as winners after all, Eastern Europeans got their countries back. So how should we approach this occupation-liberation dilemma with the current status quo? --[[User:Termer|Termer]] 05:20, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

:::''Eastern Europeans got their countries back''. Yes, de jure they are independent. De facto, these countries have been under influence of their bigger neighbours for centuries (Sweden and Poland in medieval times, Turkey and Germany/Austria later, EU most recently, and Russia throughout all times). Take for example, Baltic countries. They fought for their independence (from USSR) in beginning of 1990s only to join the EU later. Take Moldavia, they got their independence (sort of) but now they are thinking about uniting with Romania. Ukraine is probably the only country which is truely independent, it is however now is in deep political crisis (due to internal struggles between forces which push Ukraine to EU or to Russia). Belarus remains under strong influence of Russia. So basically, these countries simply can not be independent, they do not know what to do with independence, they are like magnetic pendulums pushed from one neighbour only to be reattached to another who is more powerful at the moment. ([[User:Igny|Igny]] 15:28, 19 June 2007 (UTC))

== Eastern Orthodox Church under Communist Rule ==

I was wondering if members of this wikiproject could take a look at and contribute to [[History of the Eastern Orthodox Church#Eastern Orthodox Church under Communist Rule]]. I am coming to this wikiproject because I do not have access to good source material on this information, and the way the wording is phrased (atheism vs. religion) seems POV to me. Regardless of my concerns, I feel that the experience of editors from this wikiproject can only help expand and source the section in question.-[[User:Andrew c|Andrew c]] 02:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

== Collectivisation in the USSR ==

Please take a look into recent adit conflict in [[Collectivisation in the USSR]]. I absolutely cannot explain to [[user:Lao Wai]] the rules of [[WP:NOR]]. They seem to not understand the difference between facts and drawing their own conclusions. `'[[user:mikkalai|mikka]] 18:17, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

== Soviet Libraries ==

I wanted to make a page about Libraries in the Soviet Union.  I couldn't find a page and just wanted to double-check with everyone just in-case someone has seen one or something like that.  If so, please contact me via my [[User talk:Skunkmaster|talk page.]]


Thanks,

[[User:Skunkmaster|Skunkmaster]] 22:02, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

== History of the Soviet Union ==

Yikes!  What the heck happened to [[History of the Soviet Union]]?  Wikipedia does not have such a thing as "[[Talk:History_of_the_Soviet_Union#Fake_TOC |a single article consisting of four pages]]".  I have eliminated the misleading and broken fake TOC on that article.  I strongly suggest that someone move this one to [[History of the Soviet Union up to 1927]] and rebuild an actual summary article about the entire history of the Soviet Union (covering at least the years 1922 to 1981).&nbsp;''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2007-07-21&nbsp;19:15&nbsp;Z</small>''
:Just to let everyone know, we're working on this article a hell of a lot through the irc channel #wikipedia-spotlight (see also: [[WP:Spotlight]]). We've added pretty much all of the 105 citations there are now, but we still have 300+ to go and we could use all the help we could get in citing this massive article, if it's not cited then it has a very good (99%) chance of losing it's FA status, and such a critical article has no excuse not being featured - so please help us out.--<small>[[User:Danielfolsom|<span style="color: #CCFF99; background: #003300">daniel</span>]][[User_talk:Danielfolsom|<span style="color:#FFCCCC; background:#660000">folsom</span>]]</small> 03:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
::Work on articles thru irc is absolutely inadmissible in wikipedia. Please use wikipedia article talk pages, so that other people could cooperate. I have no idea about which 105 citations you are talking about and where 300+ is missing. `'[[user:mikkalai|Míkka]] 00:58, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

See [[Talk:History of the Soviet Union]] for explanation of what it was. `'[[user:mikkalai|Míkka]] 00:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

== [[Vkhutemas]] FAC ==

You might be interested to learn that [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Vkhutemas|Vkhutemas]] is currently at FAC. Regards --[[User:Joopercoopers|Joopercoopers]] 09:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

== Soviet Rugby Team ==

I have just created an article on the [[USSR national rugby union team]], and would appreciate help in improving it. Thank you. --[[User:MacRusgail|MacRusgail]] 16:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

== collaboration of the history projects ==

Hi, I'm newly appointed coordinator of the [[Wikipedia: WikiProject History]]. I was coordinator of the [[Wikipedia: WikiProject Military History]] before.
My scope is to improve the cooperation among the different history projects andf use the synergy of a common infrastructure to improve article quality. One idea would be to merge small project into a larger wikiproject history with a common infrastructure and the small projects continuing independently as task forces of this project. What are your suggestions? Greetings [[User:Wandalstouring|Wandalstouring]] 15:21, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

== Maksim Saburov ==

I've completed a page on [[Maksim Saburov]] and would appreciate some feedback on the contents. Thanks in advance. --<font face="Old English Text MT">[[User:The Palatine|<b>Palatinus</b> Regni]]<sup>[[User_talk:The Palatine|!!!]]</sup></font> 13:41, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

== Kyrgyz or Kirghiz? ==

I've requested a move to 'Kirghiz', which was the name used during soviet times. Please take part in [[Talk:Kyrgyz SSR]]. --[[User:Soman|Soman]] ([[User talk:Soman|talk]]) 08:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
:I have adjusted some links in articles and templates to point to this usage; however, I can't seem to move the flag graphic or the coat of arms to 'Kirghiz.' [[User:Bry9000|Bry9000]] ([[User talk:Bry9000|talk]]) 05:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

== 3 Russia/USSR WikiProject tags on one article ==

[[Talk:Nikolai Yezhov]]: WP Russia, WP Russian History, WP Soviet Union. Ridiculous. You should be sharing a project banner and assigning articles to workgroups. See e.g. {{tl|WPBiography}}. There's just too much overlap for 3 seperate projects with 3 seperate banners. --[[User:Kingboyk|kingboyk]] ([[User talk:Kingboyk|talk]]) 12:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

== Extraordinary rendition ==

Does anyone here have any sources on Extraordinary rendition carried out by the Soviet Union durring the Cold War? [[User talk:Hypnosadist|<small><sup><font color="#000">(<font color="#c20">Hypnosadist</font>)</font></sup></small>]] 19:36, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

== [[Bezhin Meadow]] ==

Hello, I found [[Bezhin Meadow]] a while back, and want to bring this article to FA status. I found it fascinating the more I read about it. 

I have started to compile sources at [[User:Lawrence Cohen/work/Bezhin Meadow]]. If possible, would anyone here be able to help me drum up more and post them to my page there (feel free to edit it)? I'd be willing to do the bulk of the heavy lifting, if needed. Thanks! [[User:Lawrence Cohen|<span style="font-variant:small-caps; color:#800080;">Lawrence Cohen</span>]] 20:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


== [[Robert Conquest]] needs cleanup ==

[[Robert Conquest]] needs cleanup for neutrality and weasel problems. -- [[User:Writtenonsand|Writtenonsand]] ([[User talk:Writtenonsand|talk]]) 20:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

== SSR ==

Hello,
I was wondering whether the term "Soviet Socialist Republic" used in various WP articles is correct. To my knowledge the term should be "Socialist Soviet Republic". [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] [[User talk:Str1977|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 18:37, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

== Russia and the USSR ==

There is a dispute regarding the exact nature of the succession or continuation of the USSR to the Russian Federation (current modern Russia). Some outside voices from those familiar with the subject would be greatly appreciated. The on-going discussion can be found at: [[Talk:Russia#Russia is not the same country as the Soviet Union]]. Thanks! [[User:Vassyana|Vassyana]] ([[User talk:Vassyana|talk]]) 17:11, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

== Summit Series ==

[[Summit Series]] has been proposed to be renamed [[1972 Summit Series]]. [[Special:Contributions/132.205.44.5|132.205.44.5]] ([[User talk:132.205.44.5|talk]]) 02:42, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

== Country of birth for the case of the Soviet Union ==

Please check [[Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Country of birth]], it appears important [[User:Alex Bakharev|Alex Bakharev]] ([[User talk:Alex Bakharev|talk]]) 14:08, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

== Featured Article candidate - [[Bezhin Meadow]] ==

Hello, please take a look at [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bezhin Meadow]], for [[Bezhin Meadow]], a 1937 Soviet film. Any assistance you can offer to help finish the article off, or with suggestions for the FAC, would be appreciated. Thanks! <span style="font-variant:small-caps; color:#800080;">[[User:Lawrence Cohen|<span style="color:#800080;">Lawrence</span>]] § [[User talk:Lawrence Cohen|<span style="color:#800080;">t</span>]]/[[:Special:Contributions/Lawrence_Cohen|<span style="color:#800080;">e</span>]]</span> 16:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

== Problems on GOST ==

Just thought I would alert you that there are a number of problems on the [[GOST|GOST certification]] page. There are a bunch of odd problems with the tags, as well as a large block of what appears to be Turkmen, but could be Turkish or some other Turkic language, text on the discussion page. I left a note there, but I'm not sure how active that page is. I don't have time to deal with it right now (I'm not very experienced at editing wikipedia) but I thought I'd point it out. Someone could also add a bit about the history of the GOST standards in the Soviet Union while they're at it. [[User:Stuffisthings|Stuffisthings]] ([[User talk:Stuffisthings|talk]]) 03:56, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

== [[user:Pianist ru]] ==

Recently created [[user:Pianist ru]] (either an SPA or a sockpuppet) has been going through and deleting only Abkhazia from articles and templates without discussion or rationale. I have reverted all such edits as POV vandalism until a ''valid'' rationale is put forth by Pianist ru. He is claiming I need to read the Soviet constitution, which in itself is still not a valid rationale. Please help. [[User:Kintetsubuffalo|Chris (クリス • フィッチ)]] ([[User talk:Kintetsubuffalo|talk]]) 23:37, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
:There are all [[WP:RS]] in [[Talk:Abkhazian Soviet Socialist Republic]] --[[user:Pianist_ru|Pianist]] 09:32, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

== Film editors wanted ==

[[WP:FILMS|WikiProject Films]] has [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Films#New_task_forces.3F|solicited interest]] in creating a Soviet/CIS cinema task force. We'd like to cordially welcome all regular editors of these articles to voice their interest in starting this task force so as to see if there is sufficient support. Many thanks! [[User:Girolamo Savonarola|Girolamo Savonarola]] ([[User talk:Girolamo Savonarola|talk]]) 02:32, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

== Articles flagged for cleanup ==

Currently, 502 of the articles assigned to this project, or 20.2%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of {{date|2008-06-18}}.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See [[User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings]] for details. Subsribing is easy - just add [[User:WolterBot/Cleanup listing subscription|a template]] to your project page. <small>If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at [[User talk:B. Wolterding|my user talk page]].</small> --[[User:B. Wolterding|B. Wolterding]] ([[User talk:B. Wolterding|talk]]) 18:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

== Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme ==

As you [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-06-23/Dispatches|may have heard]], we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level.  The new description is available at [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment|WP:ASSESS]].
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== Soviet and post-Soviet films task force ==

Just thought that the community would like to know that [[WP:FILMS|WikiProject Films]] has a established a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force|Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force]]. Interested editors are encouraged to join onboard! Thanks, [[User:Girolamo Savonarola|Girolamo Savonarola]] ([[User talk:Girolamo Savonarola|talk]]) 21:41, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

== Norilsk ==

Having recently visited the city of Norilsk, I've found that the corresponding article has at least two factual errors. First of all, Russian citizens do not require a permit to visit Norilsk proper, only to visit the nearby port of Dudinka. Also, the CNN's report that "within 30 miles of the smelter there is not a single living tree" is certainly an exaggeration.  <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/209.2.208.207|209.2.208.207]] ([[User talk:209.2.208.207|talk]]) 18:49, 25 August 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Proposed Baltic cinema task force ==

Editors interested in a suggested '''Baltic cinema task force''' can [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Films#Proposed_Baltic_cinema_task_force|sign up here]]. General comments are also requested. Thanks, [[User:Girolamo Savonarola|Girolamo Savonarola]] ([[User talk:Girolamo Savonarola|talk]]) 02:22, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

== Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Soviet Union ==

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We would like to ask you to review the [http://toolserver.org/~cbm/release-data/2008-9-13/HTML/Soviet_Union.s0.html articles selected from this project]. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at [[Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7]]. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at [[Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations]]. 

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We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at [[User:SelectionBot/0.7/S-4|this project's subpage]] of [[User:SelectionBot/0.7]]. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, [[User:SelectionBot|SelectionBot]] 22:30, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

== Soyuz 2 rename ==

[[Soyuz 2 rocket]] has been proposed to be renamed to [[Soyuz-2]]. There is currently a space mission article at [[Soyuz 2]], so it's a non-obvious selection. This is part of a renaming of rocket articles. See [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rocketry/Titles/Poll]] [[Special:Contributions/70.55.203.112|70.55.203.112]] ([[User talk:70.55.203.112|talk]]) 12:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

== [[El Lissitzky]] at [[WP:FAR]] ==

[[El Lissitzky]] has been nominated for a [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_review|featured article review]]. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to [[Wikipedia:What is a featured article?|featured quality]]. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_review|here]]. Reviewers' concerns are [[Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/{{#if:|{{{2}}}|El Lissitzky}}|here]].--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|t]]/[[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|c]]/[[User:TonyTheTiger/Antonio Vernon|bio]]/[[WP:CHICAGO]]/[[WP:LOTM]]) </small> 02:53, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

== Clean-up request: Alexander Dyukov ==

Is it really reasonable that the bibliography in [[Alexander Dyukov]]'s article should list about the same number of works as the article for a world-renowned and prolific philosopher like [[Isaiah Berlin]]? Is '''everything''' Dyukov has ever published so historically ground-breaking and significant, that it should be included in English Wikipedia for enlightening the average English-language reader? I would ask that a qualified editor—preferably an academic historian in Russia specialised in contemporary Russian/Soviet history and working at an institution of higher education or a scientific institute—assess which of the listed works are actually significant or characteristic for Dyukov's work. I admit that the fact that he doesn't ever seem to have published any articles in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal like ''Voprosy istorii'', ''Otechestvennaia istoriia'', or even ''Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal'' makes me wonder about how seriously his Russian peers view his research. Thanks! —[[User:Zalktis|Zalktis]] ([[User talk:Zalktis|talk]]) 07:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

== Moscow Gold Translation ==

I have recently finished translation the article [[Moscow Gold]] from its (featured) version in Spanish. I added the article to WikiProject Soviet Union - if there are any proofreaders available willing to work with the article, that would be great.--[[User:CarlosPatiño|CarlosPatiño]] ([[User talk:CarlosPatiño|talk]]) 07:33, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

== CfD nomination of Category:Old Bolsheviks ==

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== Tomb of the Unknown Rapist ==

At [[Soviet_War_Memorial_(Treptower_Park)]] there is a dispute surrounding the insertion of 

<blockquote>
Women of the (East) German wartime generation still refer to it as the "tomb of the unknown rapist" due to the mass rapes by Red Army soldiers in the years following 1945.
</blockquote>

Discussion is taking place at [[Talk:Soviet_War_Memorial_(Treptower_Park)#Tomb_of_the_unknown_rapist]], and Alex Bakharev has started this [[Wikipedia:Ethnic_and_cultural_conflicts_noticeboard#Pejoratives_for_the_Soviet_War_Memorial_.28Treptower_Park.29]]. 

I would ask that project members provide their opinions on the matter. --[[User:Russavia|Russavia]] <sup>[[User talk:Russavia|Dialogue]]</sup> 10:05, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

At [[Talk:Soviet_War_Memorial_(Treptower_Park)#Tomb_of_the_unknown_rapist]], please also see (at this time, two) sections following. [[User:Vecrumba|PetersV]] <small><small><font style="background-color:#a12830;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font style="background-color:#ffffff;">&nbsp;</font><font style="background-color:#a12830;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></small> [[User talk:Vecrumba|TALK]]</small> 18:20, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

== Barnstar ==

Ive Created this Barnstar for this project.<br>
{{temp|Soviet Barnstar|text}}<br>
{{Soviet Barnstar|Altenitvly you can use [[[[:File:Soviet Ribbon.png|File:Soviet Ribbon.png<nowiki>|</nowiki>100px]]]]. [[File:Soviet Ribbon.png|100px]]}}

:[[User:Hereford|'''<span style="color:White;background:Red">Here</span>''']][[User talk:Hereford|'''<span style="color:Red">Ford'''</span>]] 18:48, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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== [[Sofia Rotaru]] ==

For those interested, please see the talk page. Someone is trying to delete portions of the article.--[[User:Rubikonchik|Rubikonchik]] ([[User talk:Rubikonchik|talk]]) 21:59, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

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== Original sources lost to obscurity ==

привет, Y'all. I'm a fairly new Wikipedian, so maybe this is totally off base, but here it is: back in 1967, for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union, The New York Times published a series of extensive in-depth background articles on all aspects of Soviet society. Wouldn't it be great to have those articles (which are, basically, lost to the world except for the rare person who might chance upon it in a search of the NYT archives on-line and be willing to pay for it, or somebody who still practices the arcane art of researching history in the stacks of the New York Public Library) accessible to the readers of Wikipedia? I notice that some areas of Wikipedia lack deep background. This may be true of some articles on Soviet culture such as the article on [[Soviet education]]. The article has a good deal of information, and plenty of references, but I feel that an encyclopedia ought to give the reader a sense of what it would have been like to go to elementary school in Moscow in 1967, for instance.

Growing up in the US in the '60s, I knew precious little about the "Evil Empire" over there. The New York Times articles helped a lot, humanizing, for the first time in my mind, the people behind the feared institution, similar to how Ken Burns' [[The_Civil_War_(TV_series)|Civil War series]] on PBS helped erase the propagandistic sterotypes of southerners that I picked up (largely from textbooks used by the NYC school system!).

How much harder is it for people growing up in the post-Soviet era to learn about this important part of history? Have you noticed that people, institutions and events that occurred before the World Wide Web tend to be under-represented? Wikipedia needs to help fight that trend, if we are to be the true inheritor of the mantle once worn by Britannica!

I'll get off my soapbox now. What do y'all think of this? Would it be worthwhile to get material like that? Would it be possible? (I also couldn't figure out who to write to at NYTimes.com about access to those articles.)
[[User:Paulmlieberman|Bloody Viking]] ([[User talk:Paulmlieberman|talk]]) 16:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

== Soviet invasion of Poland ==

{{#if:|[[User:{{{2}}}]] has|I have}} nominated [[Soviet invasion of Poland]] for a [[Wikipedia:Featured article review/Soviet invasion of Poland/archive1|featured article review here]]. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets [[Wikipedia:What is a featured article?|featured article criteria]]. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are [[Wikipedia:Featured article review|here]]. --[[User:Labattblueboy|Labattblueboy]] ([[User talk:Labattblueboy|talk]]) 15:37, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
== [[Eastern Bloc]] ==

[[User:Mosedschurte]] has twice removed the WikiProject Politics banner from the above articles talk page, when the topic obviously falls within the project. Please keep an eye out in case he removes it again. [[User:Willy turner|Willy turner]] ([[User talk:Willy turner|talk]]) 09:36, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

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== Soviet Union disappeared 20 years ago ==

Is this project concerned with the [[Soviet Union]], which disappeared back in 1991 ? In which case, all events posterior to this date should be removed. 
Is this project concerned with the [[Former Soviet Union]] ? In this case, all titles should be changed.
--[[User:Environnement2100|Environnement2100]] ([[User talk:Environnement2100|talk]]) 16:06, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

== Antisemitism in the Soviet Union ==

In [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Union&diff=prev&oldid=347646299 this edit] at [[Antisemitism in the Soviet Union]] (see below), {{user|Galassi}} writes that, according to literary historian Konstantin Polivanov, both (a) Stalin's own philosophical development in the direction of Russian Imperial idea and (b) anti-Semitism "paved the way" to the [[Great Purge|repressions]] of 1930's. I cannot find the assertion that anti-semitism was a major driving force behind the Great Purge in the source that Galassi provides, and the text is ambiguous with regard to whether this assertion is being made by Polivanov or by Wikipedia itself (in the latter case, only the claim that it was influenced by Losev would be attributed to Polivanov).
{{quotebox|According to literary historian Konstantin Polivanov Stalin's own philosophical development in the direction of Russian Imperial idea and anti-Semitism that paved the way to the [[Great Purge|repressions]] of 1930's that largely purged Jews from the Soviet government was influenced by the anti-Semitic writings by the anti-revolutionary and anti-Marxist Russian philosopher [[Alexei Losev]]. Losev was incarcerated in the 1920's, but was suddenly released in 1930 and allowed to resume his academic career.<ref>http://www.electroniclibrary21.ru/philosophy/losev/03.shtml</ref><br><references/>}}
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== [[Lavrentiy Beria]] ==

Would any members of WP Soviet Union be so kind as to come express an opinion at [[Talk:Lavrentiy Beria]]? There is a discussion underway as to the composition of the section on Beria's sexual predations and would benefit from informed arguments on the subject. Thanks a lot! [[User:Bravo Foxtrot|Bravo Foxtrot]] ([[User talk:Bravo Foxtrot|talk]]) 23:50, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

== Russian Translations ==

I don't know if this project is still active, but if it is, could you get yourself in gear and start dealing with the mass of terrible articles included in [[:Category:Rough translations]] please--[[User:Jac16888|<font color="Blue">Jac</font><font color="Green">16888</font>]][[User talk:Jac16888|<sup><font color="red">Talk</font></sup>]] 01:49, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
== [[:Category:1972 Team USSR players]] ==

FYI, [[:Category:1972 Team USSR players]] has been nominated for deletion. [[Special:Contributions/70.29.208.247|70.29.208.247]] ([[User talk:70.29.208.247|talk]]) 04:05, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

== Nomination for deletion of [[Template:Repression in the Soviet Union]] ==

[[File:Ambox warning pn.svg|30px]][[Template:Repression in the Soviet Union]] has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:Repression in the Soviet Union|the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page]]. Thank you.<!--Template:Tfdnotice--> [[Special:Contributions/213.164.124.252|213.164.124.252]] ([[User talk:213.164.124.252|talk]]) 17:02, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
== Soviet Union articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release ==

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team|Wikipedia 1.0 team]] for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone.  Articles were [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Article selection|selected based on their assessed  importance and quality]], then article ''versions'' (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the [[WikiTrust]] algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the [http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&namespace=0&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&limit=100&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality&filterRelease=on&reviewFilter=0&releaseFilter=1&projecta=Soviet%20Union Soviet Union articles and revisionIDs we have chosen]. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at '''[[Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8]]''' with the details.  You may wish to look at your WikiProject's [http://toolserver.org/~cbm/cgi-bin/problems.cgi articles with cleanup tags] and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at [[Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8]]. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010.  As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as [[One Laptop per Child]] and [http://schools-wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia for Schools] to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide.  Please help us, with [[Wikipedia_talk:Version_0.8|your WikiProject's feedback]]! 

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, [[User:SelectionBot|SelectionBot]] 23:38, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

== GA reviews needed ==

I've nominated three Soviet-related articles to GA-status.. Its been sometime, and none of them have been reviewed; could somebody boder to review the [[Alexei Kosygin]], [[Andrei Gromyko]] or the [[Gennady Yanayev]] article? --[[User:Trust Is All You Need|TIAYN]] ([[User talk:Trust Is All You Need|talk]]) 12:57, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
== Kengir uprising FAR ==

{{#if:|[[User:{{{2}}}]] has|I have}} nominated [[Kengir uprising]] for a [[Wikipedia:Featured article review/{{#if:Kengir uprising/archive1|Kengir uprising/archive1|Kengir uprising/archive{{#if:||1}}}}|featured article review here]]. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets [[Wikipedia:What is a featured article?|featured article criteria]]. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are [[Wikipedia:Featured article review|here]]. '''[[User:Jj98|JJ98]]''' <small>([[User talk:Jj98|Talk]])</small> 06:29, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

== Council of People's Commissars and Council of Ministers are the same ==

[[User:Harrypotter|Harrypotter]], a well-established user says the Council of People's Commissars and the Council of Ministers were to different articles, therefor the commissariats and ministries should have their own respective articles. This is false, [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=no&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economics.kiev.ua%2Fdownload%2FZakonySSSR%2Fdata04%2Ftex16360.htm the Soviet law] says the Council of People's Commissars was "[[transformed]]", but never say they dissolved the Council of People's Commissars and created a new executive branch, known as the Council of Ministers of the USSR. It says [[transformed]], and it says that for a reason. When the law says it was transformed, and modern scholars say ''renamed'', the people's commissariats and the ministry should have one article, not '''two'''. Second, sources are already scarce, and the duty and responsibilities, organisation and the structure of the People's Commissariats and Soviet ministries remained fundamentally unchanged in their 70 years of existence. The only major changes came under [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], but by that time the organisation was known as the Ministry, and not People's Commissariat. I want to reach an agreement with fellow wikiproject participants to stop Harrypotter from creating articles, with text copied from the Ministry article, and create a nearly identical page for the commissariats. Can somebody help me with this? --[[User:Trust Is All You Need|TIAYN]] ([[User talk:Trust Is All You Need|talk]]) 16:23, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
== [[Evstafii Zakharovich Tatanashvili]] ‎ ==

Hello. I've declined the speedy deletion nomination at this new article, but I'm not sure whether the subject meets our notability criteria. Any hints? --[[User:Vejvančický|Vejvančický]] ([[User_talk:Vejvančický|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Vejvančický|contribs]]) 07:45, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

== Use of "Great Patriotic War" ==

There is again edit warring and discussion on the use of the term [[Great Patriotic War]] in articles related to or about the Soviet Union. Please join the discussion at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Great Patriotic War vs. World War II]]. -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] ([[User talk:Petri Krohn|talk]]) 16:08, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
== Osvobozhdenie ==

I'm looking for someone to review my article [[Liberation (film series)|Liberation]] (the 1970-1 movie 'Osvobozhdenie' by Ozerov). Could you help, please? [[User:Bahavd Gita|Bahavd Gita]] ([[User talk:Bahavd Gita|talk]]) 18:25, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

== Pageview stats ==

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Soviet Union to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Soviet Union/Popular pages]].

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the [[tools:~alexz/pop/|toolserver tool]]. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! <font face="Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</font> 01:21, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
== FL nom: [[List of heads of state of the Soviet Union]] ==

The [[List of heads of state of the Soviet Union]] is currently a FL nom, would any of you care to review the list? If so, thanks in advance. --[[User:Trust Is All You Need|TIAYN]] ([[User talk:Trust Is All You Need|talk]]) 18:32, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

== Category Split could use some help! ==

<small>cross-posted to [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Russia]] and [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Soviet Union]].</small>

Hello all, There were a few categories that came up at [[WP:CFD|Categories for discussion]]. According to the desicon reached [[Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_February_7#Category:Russian_and_Soviet_military_vehicles|here]], the following cats are supposed to be split:
:*[[:Category:Russian and Soviet military vehicles]] into [[:Category:Military vehicles of Russia]] and [[:Category:Military vehicles of the Soviet Union]]
:*[[:Category:Soviet and Russian air defence vehicles]] into [[:Category:Air defence vehicles of Russia]] and [[:Category:Air defence vehicles of the Soviet Union]]
:*[[:Category:Russian and Soviet Anti-aircraft weapons]] into [[:Category:Anti-aircraft weapons of Russia]] and [[:Category:Anti-aircraft weapons of the Soviet Union]]

This discussion closed a month ago, and as you can see, there is still some work to be done. I don't feel that I know enough to help with this split, so I'm reaching out. :) If anyone can spare a few moments to help get this done, it would be appreciated. Спасибо! [[User:Avicennasis|<sup style="color:red;">Avic</sup>]][[User talk:Avicennasis|<sub style="color:blue;">ennasis</sub>]]<small>  @ 18:54, 1 Adar II 5771 / 7 March 2011 (UTC)</small>

== [[Template talk:Citation#Implementation|Citation templates now support more identifiers]] ==

[[Template talk:Citation#Implementation|Recent changes were made to citations templates]] (such as {{tl|citation}}, {{tl|cite journal}}, {{tl|cite web}}...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place {{para|id|{{tlx|arxiv|0123.4567}}}} (or worse {{para|url|http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567}}), now you can simply use {{para|arxiv|0123.4567}}, likewise for {{para|id|{{tlx|JSTOR|0123456789}}}} and {{para|url|http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789}} → {{para|jstor|0123456789}}.

The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):

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Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. <span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|talk]] / [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|contribs]] / [[WP:PHYS|physics]] / [[WP:WBOOKS|books]]}</span> 03:22, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
== Quality ==

The articles here about the USSR are critically important for a variety of reasons, not least of which is to present a historical record.  Recognising that evidencing what it was like for most Soviet citizens, and those who were arbitrarily executed or sentenced to prolonged (or lifetime) prison sentences, should be '''evidencing''' only (no comment), seems hard for some people to accept.  That's not a good starting point for an encyclopedia.

The absence of citations referencing academic discussion about '''definitions of political taxonomy''' is the most common feature of pro-Western bias.  The absence of citations referring to '''Marxist-Leninist theory''' to underpin concrete Soviet policy is the most common feature of pro-Soviet bias.  Before we reject the importance of this issue, let us recall that living memory dies within 80 years, and sources someone is deliberately trying to suppress die even more quickly.
Worse, the enthusiasm of some editors to award brownie points ('barnstars, GA, FA ratings'), commendable though it may be, is no excuse for elevating articles about Soviet/Russian/imperial/Western imperialism history to some kind of endorsed status just because there are some like-minded people or a need has been identified.  It is a considerable disgrace that articles with wording in English that would not pass a high school examination can be vetted as 'Good Articles' just because the request is made and no one disagrees immediately. 

May I draw everyone's attention to the search term '''useful idiots'''.  '''Stalinism''' (yes, my definition) has survived as a particular form of ideological terrorism precisely because of the self-censorship or 'open-mindedness' that Lenin remarked on as an intellectual feature of fellow travellers.  Impartiality should start with critical examination of adjectives, and citations should be particularly precise about attribution of characteristics/stereotypes (taxonomy, morphology).  Should I mention that some people who are beneficiaries or victims of the various Soviet regimes are still alive and will have strong views, none of which can be accepted in good faith (look for [[David Parker]] in the [[Brian Burke]] ministry.  If that's not a grand job at erasing history about a socialist politician I don't know what is).

Can an '''expert in English language''' please review most of the projects here for '''grammar and language alone'''.  Can an academic please '''check the references''' (the sources themselves) to ensure that there is no daisy-chaining (one source cited once perpetuated forever without necessarily being relevant) going on here.

Before you ask me why I don't do it, I have already been challenged about my orthodoxy on Soviet history and don't think I'm the kind of clean-skin necessary for the integrity of this endeavour.

Regards --<span style="border: 1px solid black;"><font style="background-color: black; color:#FC0;">Peter S Strempel&nbsp;</font> [[user:Peterstrempel|Page]] &#124; [[user_talk:Peterstrempel|Talk]]&nbsp;</span> 08:25, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

== Image:Laika first living being in space Sputnik 2.gif ==

[[:File:Laika first living being in space Sputnik 2.gif]] has been nominated for deletion. [[Special:Contributions/184.144.160.156|184.144.160.156]] ([[User talk:184.144.160.156|talk]]) 06:54, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
== Good article nomination needs help ==

It looks like the editor who began the [[WP:Good article]] review for the [[WP:GAN|nominated]] article, [[Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev]], will be unable to complete it.  We need to find a registered editor to take over the review.  I think in this case it might be somewhat helpful to have a person who knows a little bit about the general subject, so I'm posting this message here.

The job of a reviewer is to compare the article to the [[WP:GACR|Good article criteria]] and decide whether it meets the criteria.  If you've never done it before, there are a variety of unofficial guides on what and how to do things, and the folks at [[WP:WikiProject Good articles]] are willing to help.  If you would like to help, please leave a note at [[Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations#KnowIG|this talk page]].  Thanks, [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 00:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

== Template:Soviet_Spies ==

Dear PSU 

This template. [[:Template:Soviet_Spies]], appears to be pretty strange. Many, many of the names on it are apparently based on the controversial Vassiliev / Venona lists... some of them with only that one single source as 'proof' (a source which has been disputed by some historians). Meanwhile, other well known, well documented spies are absent from the list. If anyone has advice on improving this...  please give it. [[User:Decora|Decora]] ([[User talk:Decora|talk]]) 21:41, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
== [[:Image:Breznev-Honecker 1979.jpg]] ==

[[:File:Breznev-Honecker 1979.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion. [[Special:Contributions/65.94.45.160|65.94.45.160]] ([[User talk:65.94.45.160|talk]]) 06:02, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

== Katyn massacre at Featured Article review ==

Katyn massacre is undergoing a featured article review process here: [[Wikipedia:Featured article review/Katyn_massacre/archive1]] [[User:Fifelfoo|Fifelfoo]] ([[User talk:Fifelfoo|talk]]) 05:42, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
== [[Portal:Kyrgyzstan]] ==

{{portal|Kyrgyzstan}}
Kyrgyzstan's portal has been nominated for deletion. [[Special:Contributions/184.144.168.112|184.144.168.112]] ([[User talk:184.144.168.112|talk]]) 05:11, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

== Portal:Tbilisi ==

<nowiki>{{portal|Tbilisi}}</nowiki>
[[Portal:Tbilisi]] has been nominated for deletion. [[Special:Contributions/184.144.166.87|184.144.166.87]] ([[User talk:184.144.166.87|talk]]) 06:45, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
== New photos ==

RIA Novosti donated 100 new photos to Commons from the Soviet Union. [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti] [[User:USchick|USchick]] ([[User talk:USchick|talk]]) 22:18, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

== Calling to arms ==

[[File:Su-27 Cobra 2b.png|500px|center]] 

Ever heard of the [[Pugachev's Cobra]]? Ever heard of a Sukhoi, or a MiG? Ever heard of "Foxbats", "Flankers", "Fulcrums", or Fullback"? Do you know what they are? Do you know what the Soviet aerospace industry is like? Do you know who the Americans really fear? Do you know how much headache it caused to the West? Do you know how much attention the fighters are getting? If the answer is NO, then there are clearly some catching up to do. During the next few days, I'll be working on the [[MiG-29K]], [[Su-34]], [[Su-35]] and [[Su-37]]. I want to bring them all up to the same standard as the [[Su-33]]. If you want to participate, please come along and help out. Don't be hesitant. Give the Soviet aerospace industry the recognition it really deserves. [[User:Sp33dyphil|<small><b style="background:HotPink;color:white;">Sp33dyphil</b></small>]] ''<sup>"[[User talk:Sp33dyphil|Ad]] [[User:Sp33dyphil/Master plan|astra]]"</sup>'' 11:45, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
== FAR ==

{{#if:|[[User:{{{2}}}]] has|I have}} nominated [[T-34]] for a [[Wikipedia:Featured article review/{{#if:T-34/archive2|T-34/archive2|T-34/archive{{#if:||1}}}}|featured article review here]]. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets [[Wikipedia:What is a featured article?|featured article criteria]]. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are [[Wikipedia:Featured article review|here]]. [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]] ([[User talk:Ironholds|talk]]) 15:12, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

== Wikipedia:Moon landing ==

This redirect is up for discussion. Please see [[WP:RFD#Wikipedia:Moon landing]]. [[User:Simply south|Simply]][[User talk:Simply south| south]]....[[User:Simply south/Poem|..]] ''creating lakes for 5 years''  19:59, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
== 27th Guards Rifle Division ==

WikiProject Soviet Union,

Article: [[27th Guards Rifle Division]].

It would be appreciated that someone would be able to clean this article up and translate the non-english language on the article and discussion page.  Even a complete infobox and picture would be great.  The Coordinators at WikiProject Military History encourage users to do their best with articles.  It would be appreciated.  [[User:Adamdaley|Adamdaley]] ([[User talk:Adamdaley|talk]]) 07:27, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

== Keep your eye out for future work by Wheatcroft and Fitzpatrick ==

[[Stephen Wheatcroft]] and [[Sheila Fitzpatrick]] have won an Australian ARC Grant to do archival work, which ought in time to lead to some exciting new social and economic history on the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. [[User:Fifelfoo|Fifelfoo]] ([[User talk:Fifelfoo|talk]]) 01:29, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
== Discussion at  Talk:East Germany#Satellite state of the USSR or not ==

[[File:Farm-Fresh eye.png|15px|link=|alt=]] You are invited to join the discussion at [[Talk:East Germany#Satellite state of the USSR or not]]. {{#if:''Should this article describe East Germany (the former German Democratic Republic) as a satellite state of the former USSR?""|''Should this article describe East Germany (the former German Democratic Republic) as a satellite state of the former USSR?""}} [[User:Kudpung|Kudpung กุดผึ้ง]] ([[User talk:Kudpung|talk]]) 15:58, 10 January 2012 (UTC)<!--Template:Please see-->

== WikiWomen's History Month ==

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Soviet Union will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within Soviet history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: [[Wikipedia:WikiWomen's History Month|WikiWomen's History Month]]. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! [[User:SarahStierch|SarahStierch]] ([[User talk:SarahStierch|talk]]) 20:46, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
== Soviet science articles ==

I've left some notes [[Talk:Suppressed research in the Soviet Union#One-sided take on Soviet science]] and [[Talk:Science and technology in the Soviet Union]] on the need for better coverage of the history of Soviet science. If anybody else wants to help with expansion, I'm certainly up for it. [[User:Peter G Werner|Peter G Werner]] ([[User talk:Peter G Werner|talk]]) 01:53, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

== Category:Soviet Anti-Air Defense ==

[[:Category:Soviet Anti-Air Defense]] has been proposed to be renamed -- [[Special:Contributions/70.24.248.246|70.24.248.246]] ([[User talk:70.24.248.246|talk]]) 22:49, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
== Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher: Unassessed ==

I am here to ask for [[Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher]] to be assessed by WP:Soviet Union. It has reached "A class" on 4 of the 6 wikiproject templates. [[User:Adamdaley|Adamdaley]] ([[User talk:Adamdaley|talk]]) 23:08, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
:Would someone be able to help me out? [[User:Adamdaley|Adamdaley]] ([[User talk:Adamdaley|talk]]) 10:18, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
::Could someone from the WP:Soviet Union please assess the above article for A class? It would be greatly appreciated. [[User:Adamdaley|Adamdaley]] ([[User talk:Adamdaley|talk]]) 09:24, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

== Relevant RfD ==

{{noredirect|List of Soviet people}}, which currently redirects to [[List of Russian people]], has been nominated at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 January 11#List of Soviet people]]. Your comments in the discussion would be welcome. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] ([[User talk:Thryduulf|talk]]) 12:11, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
== Molotov-Ribbentrop-Russian.jpg ==

[[:image:Molotov-Ribbentrop-Russian.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/65.92.180.137|65.92.180.137]] ([[User talk:65.92.180.137|talk]]) 05:21, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

== Stalin.jpg ==

[[:image:Stalin.jpg]] has been nominated for speedy deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/65.92.180.137|65.92.180.137]] ([[User talk:65.92.180.137|talk]]) 23:57, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
== [[Project 1231]] ==

Translated article - we need to update of [[ru:Опытный малый погружающийся ракетный корабль проекта 1231]]. [[User:Vyacheslav84|Vyacheslav84]] ([[User talk:Vyacheslav84|talk]]) 07:29, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

[http://milparade.udm.ru/security/27/090x.htm Eduard Aframeev. DIVING MISSILE-BOATS] [[User:Vyacheslav84|Vyacheslav84]] ([[User talk:Vyacheslav84|talk]]) 05:17, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

== File:FalsifiersOfHistoryCover.jpg ==

[[:File:FalsifiersOfHistoryCover.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/65.92.180.137|65.92.180.137]] ([[User talk:65.92.180.137|talk]]) 05:02, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
== 1965 Yerevan demonstration.jpg ==

[[:file:1965 Yerevan demonstration.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/65.92.180.137|65.92.180.137]] ([[User talk:65.92.180.137|talk]]) 02:21, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

== [[History of Estonia]] ==

This [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Estonia&diff=550218968&oldid=545026219 edit], concerns me. It deals with a part of Soviet history. [[User:GoodDay|GoodDay]] ([[User talk:GoodDay|talk]]) 23:11, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
== File:Len-fire.jpg ==

[[:File:Len-fire.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/70.24.250.103|70.24.250.103]] ([[User talk:70.24.250.103|talk]]) 16:59, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

== Rkka.jpg ==

[[:file:Rkka.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/70.24.250.103|70.24.250.103]] ([[User talk:70.24.250.103|talk]]) 20:15, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
== File:Vazgen Sargsyan bw.jpg ==

[[:File:Vazgen Sargsyan bw.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/70.24.250.103|70.24.250.103]] ([[User talk:70.24.250.103|talk]]) 04:18, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

== Yasen Class.jpg ==

[[:image:Yasen Class.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/65.94.76.126|65.94.76.126]] ([[User talk:65.94.76.126|talk]]) 05:22, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
== Manchukuo discussion ==

Here's a notice from Benlisquare about a topic which may interest people here:

:It's currently being disputed whether [[Manchukuo]] was a [[puppet state]] or not. At the moment, I'm trying to compile a list of books and academic papers that refer to Manchukuo as a "puppet state". If anyone would like to help with expanding the list, please add a few more sources to the list at [[Talk:Manchukuo#NPOV "puppet state"]]. Thanks. --[[User:benlisquare|<span style="border:1px solid yellow;padding:1px;color:#FFFF00;background:red;">'''&nbsp;李博杰&nbsp;'''</span>]] &#124; <small>—[[User talk:benlisquare|Talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Benlisquare|contribs]] [[Special:EmailUser/User:Benlisquare|email]]</small> 02:35, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Please participate if interested. ···[[User:Nihonjoe|<font color="darkgreen">日本穣</font>]]<sup>[[WP:HIJCS|?]]</sup> · <small>[[Special:Contributions/Nihonjoe|<font color="blue">投稿</font>]] · [[User talk:Nihonjoe|Talk to Nihonjoe]] · [[WP:JA|<font color="maroon">Join WP Japan</font>]]!</small> 22:43, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

== File:Gertar bridge 1929.jpg ==

[[:File:Gertar bridge 1929.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/65.94.76.126|65.94.76.126]] ([[User talk:65.94.76.126|talk]]) 07:39, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
== File:KGB Report on 1981.jpg ==

[[:File:KGB Report on 1981.jpg]] has been nominated for deletion -- [[Special:Contributions/65.94.76.126|65.94.76.126]] ([[User talk:65.94.76.126|talk]]) 08:55, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

== Казакская АССР and Киргизская АССР ==

Are these two entities ([[Kazak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic]] and [[Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic]]) actually the same entity that has just change its name or in 1925 Kirghiz ASSR stop to exist and in its place came new entity with name Kazak ASSR? Do we maybe have symbols of these entities? Which entity preceded Kirghiz ASSR, I put Russian ASSR but Kirghiz ASSR actually all that time was part of Russian ASSR. Please just warn me on my talk page to if anyone knows the answer. All the best.--[[User:MirkoS18|MirkoS18]] ([[User talk:MirkoS18|talk]]) 12:12, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
:Even if you look at what has preceded to [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]] and [[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic]] you will see that they link in on these two pages, but than it looks for reader like me who don't have enough knowledge like there was 5 years of vacuum in Kirghiz case.--[[User:MirkoS18|MirkoS18]] ([[User talk:MirkoS18|talk]]) 12:19, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
== Soviet Barnstar and Soviet Army OrBats ==

I'm just wondering if the project has an updated National Barnstar 2.0? If so I took the liberty of creating one and would like to put it forward for approval to use? Also, I'm currently working on order of battle graphics for the Soviet Army. Right now I'm concentrating on the 1980s but plan on moving on to World War 2 era. [[User:Dmanrock29|Dmanrock29]] ([[User talk:Dmanrock29|talk]]) 05:40, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

== Vkhutemas.jpg ==

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== PUF'd files ==

* [[:File:Beriev be10.jpg]]
* [[:File:Yak-9T with 45mm prototype.png]]
* [[:File:I-180.jpg]]
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== One of your project's articles has been featured ==

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Hello,<br>Please note that '''[[Hammer and sickle]]''', which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of '''[[Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement|Today's articles for improvement]]'''. The article was [[Wikipedia:Today's article for improvement/Schedule|scheduled]] to appear on Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Main page|Main Page]] in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! <!-- Template:TAFI project notice --><br>
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== [[The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed]] and [[Leonid Parfyonov]] ==

Ladies and gentlemen, I see Parfyonov's well-known documentary as [[The_Meeting_Place_Cannot_Be_Changed#Production|the principal source for the article]]. Could I please ask your help with digging out the full version on the web and/or reffing the article to it?

Here are only exerpts:
*"МЕСТО ВСТРЕЧИ. 20 ЛЕТ СПУСТЯ" - [[Leonid Parfyonov]]'s documentary {{In lang|ru}}:
**{{YouTube|id=Ox87xIuQDwc|title=Part 1|accessdate=April 23, 2013}}
**{{YouTube|id=fzOakxS1TZo|title=Part 2|accessdate=April 23, 2013}}

Thank you, [[User:Ukrained2012|Ukrained2012]] ([[User talk:Ukrained2012|talk]]) 11:28, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
== My missing topics pages ==

I have created [[User:Skysmith/Missing topics about Soviet Union]] under my Missing Topics pages. Some of the subjects just might need a redirect but other might be eligible for articles - [[User:Skysmith|Skysmith]] ([[User talk:Skysmith|talk]]) 10:39, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

== {{tl|Baltic states}} ==

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== {{tl|Commonwealth of Independent States}} ==

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== 180px-Ivan-Kozhedub2.jpg ==

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*I think it is a good idea [[:commons:File:Kozhedub.jpg]] is of much better quality [[User:Alex Bakharev|Alex Bakharev]] ([[User talk:Alex Bakharev|talk]]) 06:40, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

== RGHAspetakan.jpg ==

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== Grossman-1945.jpg ==

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== Bagramyan Vasilevski ==

* {{lf|Vasilevski bagra.jpg}} 
* {{lf|Bagramyan kurasov.jpg}} 
* {{lf|Bagramyan&commanders.jpg}} 
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==Garayev Piano.jpg==
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== Popular pages tool update ==


As of January, the popular pages tool has moved from the Toolserver to [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Labs|Wikimedia Tool Labs]]. The code has changed significantly from the Toolserver version, but users should notice few differences. Please take a moment to look over your project's list for any anomalies, such as pages that you expect to see that are missing or pages that seem to have more views than expected. Note that unlike other tools, this tool aggregates all views from redirects, which means it will typically have higher numbers. (For January 2014 specifically, 35 hours of data is missing from the WMF data, which was approximated from other dates. For most articles, this should yield a more accurate number. However, a few articles, like ones featured on the Main Page, may be off).

Web tools, to replace the ones at [[tools:~alexz/pop]], will become available over the next few weeks at [[toollabs:popularpages]]. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The [[toollabs:popularpages/view.php|tool to view historical data]] is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available [[toollabs:popularpages/config.php|now]] (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. [[mw:Help:OAuth|OAuth]] is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs. 

If you have any questions, want to report any bugs, or there are any features you would like to see that aren't currently available on the Toolserver tools, see the [[User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ|updated FAQ]] or contact me on my talk page. [[User:Mr.Z-bot|Mr.Z-bot]] ([[User talk:Mr.Z-bot|talk]]) (for <span style="font-family:Broadway">[[User:Mr.Z-man|Mr.]][[User talk:Mr.Z-man|'''''Z-'''man'']]</span>) 05:28, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

== [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greater Romania (political concept)]] ==


Would you please tell us your opinion on this matter? The concept concerns the Soviet Union (e.g. issue of Bessarabia). All comments are welcome. [[User:Fakirbakir|Fakirbakir]] ([[User talk:Fakirbakir|talk]]) 08:12, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

=="{{noredirect|Laika (dog)}}"==
The usage of {{la|Laika (dog)}} is under discussion, see [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Dogs#Requested_moves]] -- [[Special:Contributions/65.94.171.126|65.94.171.126]] ([[User talk:65.94.171.126|talk]]) 05:49, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

== Leaflet for Wikiproject Soviet Union at Wikimania 2014 ==

[[File:Project Leaflet WikiProject Medicine back and front v1.png|thumb|right|550px]]
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

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• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost
<br><br>
The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014
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== Comment on the WikiProject X proposal ==

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please '''[[meta:Grants:IEG/WikiProject X|review the proposal here]]''' and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my [[User talk:Harej|talk page]]. Thank you for your time! <small>(Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.)</small> [[User:Harej|Harej]] ([[User talk:Harej|talk]]) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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== Userbox ==

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== WikiProject X is live! ==

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==Category:Historical cities and towns in Russia==

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==[[Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Central Committee elected by the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)]]==
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== [[:Arkhangelsk]] listed at Requested moves==
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== What do we do about the bias in SU articles? ==

If I link sources debunking some horrible thing that some author claims happened, and it gets reverted due to opinionated unreliability, what do I do? [[User:Socialistguy|Socialistguy]] ([[User talk:Socialistguy|talk]]) 17:20, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
:But Socialistguy, you haven't linked to any sources debunking anything, you just [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First_five-year_plan_(Soviet_Union)&diff=prev&oldid=683646909 changed wording to match your own POV], in contravention of what sources actually say.<span style="border:1px solid black;padding:1px;">[[User:Volunteer Marek|<span style="color:orange; background:blue; font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Volunteer Marek&nbsp;'''</span>]]</span> 16:37, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

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==Category:Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution==

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==Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin, twelve times==

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== [[:Family members of traitors of the Motherland]] listed at Requested moves==
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== [[:Family members of traitors to the Motherland]] listed at Requested moves==
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== [[:FK Ural Sverdlovskaya Oblast]] listed at Requested moves==
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== [[:Grigol Ordzhonikidze]] listed at Requested moves==
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== [[:Anti-Russian sentiment]] listed at Requested moves==
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== [[:Flight and expulsion of Poles from the USSR]] listed at Requested moves==
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== [[:Flight of Poles from the USSR]] listed at Requested moves==
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== FAC of [[Vladimir Lenin]] ==

Hello there! As members of this WikiProject, you may be interested to see that the [[Vladimir Lenin]] article is currently undergoing an FAC [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Vladimir_Lenin/archive1&redirect=no here]. If you have the time and inclination then it would be great if you could come along and offer your views on whether or not it meets the criteria. [[User:Midnightblueowl|Midnightblueowl]] ([[User talk:Midnightblueowl|talk]]) 11:49, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

== [[:Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia]] listed at Requested moves==
[[File:Information.svg|30px|left]]A [[Wikipedia:Requested moves|requested move]] discussion has been initiated for [[:Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia]] to be moved to [[Murder of Poles and Jews in Volhynia and Galicia]]. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion [[Talk:Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia#Requested move 24 August 2016 |here]].<!-- Talk:Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia#Requested move 24 August 2016  crosspost --> —[[User:RMCD bot|RMCD bot]] 14:44, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
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==[[:Category:Pilot-Cosmonauts of the USSR]] has been nominated for discussion==
<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">[[File:Ambox warning orange.svg|48px|alt=|link=]]</div>'''[[:Category:Pilot-Cosmonauts of the USSR]]''', which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for '''deletion'''. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categorization]] guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at '''[[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 September 4#Category:Pilot-Cosmonauts of the USSR|the category's entry]]''' on the [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion|categories for discussion]] page.<!-- Template:Cfd-notify--> Thank you. [[User:RevelationDirect|RevelationDirect]] ([[User talk:RevelationDirect|talk]]) 01:52, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

== [[:Criticisms of communist party rule]] listed at Requested moves==
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==2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages==
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<big>'''''Greetings {{PAGENAME}} Members!'''''</big>

This is a '''one-time-only''' message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the '''[[meta:2016 Community Wishlist Survey|{{nowrap|2016 Community Wishlist Survey}}]]''' that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

* [[meta:2016 Community Wishlist Survey/Categories/WikiProjects#Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report|Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report]]

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration.  Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, {{u|Stevietheman}} — <small>Delivered: 18:08, 7 December 2016 (UTC)</small>
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== Missing topics list ==

My list of [[User:Skysmith/Missing topics about Soviet Union|missing topics about Soviet Union]] is updated - [[User:Skysmith|Skysmith]] ([[User talk:Skysmith|talk]]) 13:58, 8 January 2017 (UTC)