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How was the Soviet Union a dictatorship between 1924 to 1927?[edit]
Stalin was nowhere near close to consolidating power in the party or the country in 1924 or 1925. It's only until 1926 that he began to properly consolidate power. Nearly every source would point to the fact that from 1924 to somewhere around 1928-1930 (at the most) the Soviet Union was collectively ruled and not governed by any specific person or group.
Who's the dictator from 1924-1928/30? We don't consider Lenin's rule as a 'dictatorship' in this article despite him objectively having better qualifications to be classified as such. We aren't considering the period after Stalin as being a dictatorship so it's not the party that's forming the dictatorship.
The section for the 1924-1927 government form does not have any sources provided. I will be revising it as such. If there is any objections please do raise them. TheodoresTomfooleries (talk) 01:38, 27 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Lenin could order any number of innocent people murdered for any reason or no reason at all, and so could Stalin. They were dictators, QED. Nitpicking this obvious fact by pointing to their Potemkin legislatures and committies is silly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:667F:2797:451:3077:F89E:7BE5 (talk) 15:55, 30 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The consensus reached both by scholars, and by this very article, is that even at the height of Lenin's power he could not have been considered a dictator. The scholarly consensus, again, is that Stalin's consolidation of power only began by 1926, and he could only have been considered the unchallenged ruler of the Soviet Union by 1930. A real and powerful, rather than imaginary, legal and party opposition to Stalin and a lack of the dictatorial powers he possessed after 1930 is proof of this.
RF is not successor but continuation of USSR.[edit]
In letter of President of RF to UNSG dated 24th December 1991 you can read i.a.:
"I have the honour to inform you that the membership of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the United Nations, including the Security Council and all other organs and organizations of the United Nations system, is being continued by the Russian Federation (RSFSR) with the support of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States."
According to Public International Law succession does not include taking the membership in international organizations by successor state. In addition according to Article 23 of the UN Charter "Soviet Union" is a member of UNSC, not "Russian Federation". Mistepien (talk) 20:06, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Seems like legacy should be the last category in the article, after thee USSR's legacy is discussed it goes on to sports, seems out of order RomanGrandpa (talk) 18:02, 15 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Schwede66talk 17:51, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
... that Source: Boris Yeltsin came into power on July 10, 1991?
Reviewed:
Created by 342rfawrfarefarwf (talk). Self-nominated at 18:03, 9 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Soviet Union; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.Reply[reply]
Unfortunately the article is not eligible for DYK as it is not newly-created, it was not expanded at least five times, and it wasn't promoted to Good Article status within the last seven days. In addition, no hook has actually been proposed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 18:33, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Unfortunately the article is not eligible for DYK as it is not newly-created, it was not expanded at least five times, and it wasn't promoted to Good Article status within the last seven days. In addition, no hook has actually been proposed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 18:33, 9 January 2024 (UTC)