Siteadmin, Check users, nsTeam1RO, nsTeam1RW, nsTeam1_talkRO, nsTeam1_talkRW, oversight, Administrators
30,650
edits
Changes
How to handle the "rise of the Soviet Union" thing
::One of the first edit's I would like to make is to remove most of the last paragraph in the first section as it lacks any kind of citations, and should be placed in the liberal criticism's section. Want to run it by everyone here before going about doing it as I know that removing information can rub some members here the wrong way.--[[User:SteveY|SteveY]] 09:33, 17 August 2011 (EDT)
::One of the first edit's I would like to make is to remove most of the last paragraph in the first section as it lacks any kind of citations, and should be placed in the liberal criticism's section. Want to run it by everyone here before going about doing it as I know that removing information can rub some members here the wrong way.--[[User:SteveY|SteveY]] 09:33, 17 August 2011 (EDT)
==Correct names: Russia, CIS, Soviet Union==
It is common to say "Russia" when referring to the CIS or the Soviet Union. Probably this is because both the latter have been dominated by Russia. The Bachman quote seems to be of interest only in terms of [[gotcha politics]], kind of like the flap over Sarah Palin's [[see Russia from Alaska]] remarks, which have been widely misquoted '''and''' taken out of context.
If we mention Bachmann's Soviet Union quote, we need a sidebar article showing what political capital her opponents have made out of what was (at worst) a slip of the tongue. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 13:22, 19 August 2011 (EDT)