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Article evaluation
With the article on the First Five Year Plan, I found the text to be vague in the introductory paragraph of the page. In the Talk page, I left a comment suggesting what I found to be wrong about the wording of this introductory paragraph, also suggesting what I found to be necessary in solving this issue.

Next, in accordance with the instructions to add to a Wikipedia page related to our course, I found one on collectivization as was the focus of our learning in the second week of this course. In doing so, I added a paragraph in the subheading group on the church during collectivization to make mention of Earth because of the fact that this movie deals with this conflict between the church and the Soviets, as was talked about in this subheading on this topic.

Additionally, I have gone back and edited on the First FYP in order to rephrase the sentence in which "gigantic farm" had appeared, as I make mention of in the first paragraph here in Article evaluation. I attempted to make the new sentence make more sense to people reading the article in understanding what the relationship was at this time between the peasants and the Party.

I have included the source on Soviet history at the end of my edit on the First FYP because this website makes specific mention of the peasants' resistance to the change brought by collectivization in that they killed their farm animals instead of turning them over to the State.

I have also gone into the article on kulak s and added a sentence to the very end of the introductory passage to include the information that dekulakization led to the mass migration to the cities of former landowning peasants that had formerly lived in the countryside, in addition to the fact that they were killed or sent off to labor camps.

Research for "Soviet evacuation" article
For easy access: Evacuation in the Soviet Union

In preparation for a possible subsection:
Nazi Germany code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union was Operation Barbarossa. This is something that we can include in general information/background to introduce the disbursement of people/industry across the U.S.S.R. Possibly even create a new subsection/heading for the background of the invasion.

The non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin (1939). It is believed that they both knew it would not last.

Hubert Menzel, a major in Germany Army headquarters, realized that Nazi Germany was facing a growing British/American threat from the West and a Soviet threat from the East. They chose to launch the invasion on the Soviet Union to "remove the greatest threat."

Stalin repeatedly called on Britain and France to unite against the fascist Axis powers to defend Eastern Europe, but he was ignored, until Germany invaded Poland and the two Western European allies finally declared war on Nazi Germany. He signed nonaggression pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) in order to buy himself time to fend off Nazi Germany for himself.

After evacuation:
The tension between the city of Kirov and the incoming refugees from war-torn regions

The role of government in evacuation...also posted under Jose's sandbox
With Stalin and the Communist Party's Central Committee knowing that Hitler would eventually turn on the Soviet Union, there were plans made before Operation Barbarossa was launched to begin the evacuation as a precaution to Nazi assault. A Party man in Moscow involved in that city's evacuation committee, Vasilii Prokhorovich Pronin, submitted a plan prior that would have removed some one million Muscovites, but it was rejected by Stalin. It would have to wait for the actual invasion before the Party enacted any real plan for evacuation.

Two days after the German invasion of June 22, 1941, the Party created an Evacuation Council in an attempt to create a procedure for the coming evacuation of Soviet citizens living close to the Eastern Front. It identified cities along major train routes of the USSR in which these people could be removed and taken to quickly because they were easily accessible by railroad. As of September, three months following the invasion by the Nazis, the Evacuation Council had 128 centers identified and operating. Prominent city centers that received evacuated citizens (as well as other resources and industry) include Kirov, Iaroslavl, Gorky, Ufa, Sverdlovsk, Cheliabinsk, and Kuibyshev.

Further measures were instated by the Party in order to help dispersed evacuees settle in to life in their new location. Evacuees new to a city were instructed to contact the local authorities so that they could be accounted for. Following this, they received a certificate declaring their evacuee status and allowing them to receive lodgings, food rations, and temporary employment. Evacuees were told that they were allowed to bring personal belongings with them as long as it didn't hinder the authorities' abilities to get them from evacuated site to the refuge center. Family members were instructed not to exceed 40 kilometers in weight for their belongings to come along with them.

Another instruction from the Central Committee during the months of August and September was for regional governments to build temporary housing for the new-comers if there was not ample enough existing in that region already. This preludes the measure enacted in November when the Party agreed to establish an Evacuation Administration, thus taking the power out of the hands of regional authorities and centralizing it with the Communist Party. This led to offices of the said agency popping up throughout the evacuation center cities/regions so as to better regulate and look after the dispersed evacuees. The agents of the Evacuation Administration were in charge of making sure that the evacuees were being well taken care of in their new locations. An added concern, in addition to housing, employment, and food, was health care and child care.

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