Wikipedia:Peer review/Soviet Union/archive1

Soviet Union

The article is comprehensive and stable. I can't think of anything that would need adding, should anything be removed? - FrancisTyers 18:11, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

You can start by 1) adding references, preferably with the use of Wikipedia:Footnotes. 2) History section seem POVed: The article states: [after 1945] The Soviet Union aided postwar reconstruction in Eastern Europe. I'd very much like to learn how? SU forbade them to join the Marshall Plan, took (part of?) their part of repatriations from Germany and gave what in return? The communist economy? The history section also makes no reference to the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, and I see no mention of how it gained control of Eastern Europe, killed of or forced into exile any opposition, and ruled over its satellite states for the next four and a half decades (if you haven't read it, I recommend History of Poland (1945-1989), a Featured Article). Besides the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, such events as the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Prague Spring, Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sino-Soviet split should be mentioned as well. Then there is not a single word of those satellites slipping the SU grip (Solidarność) and how that contributed to the eventual fall of the SU. 3) sections like 'Geography' are a stub-sections (expand), 'Culture' is a list (write!). 4) Remove see also sections from mainbody, and transform them, as well as some of the main articles, into the proper {{details}}. 5) economics section: 'Soviet citizens of the 1980s had economic parity to the West.' - what?? source please. I wouldn't call the shortage economy parity. And one of the few bright sides of the Soviet economy, its independence of the business cycles and thus depressions (including the Great one and the Oil Depression of the 70's) are glaring omission from this section. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 00:50, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

"Forbiding" entrance to Marshall in no way opposes the fact that USSR contributed postwar reconstruction in Eastern Europe. Stating that western capitalist economies are efficient or do aid a country is as well a POV. Also, I'm very new to wikipedia but I read somewhere that no wikipedia article can serve as reference for other wikipedia article, mainly I say it because you cite "History of Poland (1945-1989)" as reference for USSR's control over Eastern Europe's "satellites". As well it is completely incorrect to claim that USSR's economy was communist and furthermore even more inccorect to state it is an unneffective economical system since it has never been tried to be implemented seriously inspite of claims that it has been tried to be stablished 201.129.240.39 16:46, 2 August 2006 (UTC) ZealotKommunizma