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The article, of course, is frankly mediocre and is replete with frankly unscientific and crazy concepts like "Chekism" and, in general, the class essence of Soviet society and some second-class citizens, the presence and definition of which does not prove in any way, society, and why tribalism is here , which is not at all clear in what way it is related to this topic, the author for the most part does not understand that for the most part people were not politically enlightened, since the majority of the population at the time of the advent of Soviet power were peasants and therefore it was easy to propagate Bolshevik ideas among them, and those who could oppose the Soviet regime could immediately be repressed, because there could not be any serious opposition among the trade unions, and for the most part they solved not only the protection of workers' rights, but problems, but also other problems in factories, for example, economic and production Цйфыву (talk) 23:07, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Single citation source for most of the article with broad sweeping claims[edit]

Most of this article only references Klass a book which can only be considered a second hand source at best written by an author with no online biography and uses references to make broad and sweeping claims many of which read like opinion. There should be consideration of scraping this whole article and starting over or at the very least simply removing the uncorroborated information that's presented as fact which would probably leave it with 2 small paragraphs. Bad Historiography (talk) 19:28, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]