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Some Wikipedians have formed a Project to better organize information in articles related to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its Eastern European satellite states. It attempts to coordinate collaborative writing efforts, organize and create standards for making good articles. It endeavours to create a good reference for socialism in unbiased terms. If you want to join, simply help out and add your name to the list of participants.

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WikiProject Soviet Union seeks to improve Wikipedia's articles on all aspects of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This includes coverage of Soviet politicians and state ideology, as well as history and warfare, the Communist Party and the effects of communism in the USSR. It also seeks to improve Wikipedia articles on political and economic subjects that are sorely lacking in analysis of how government policies negatively effect society, using reliably sourced material from Soviet-oriented academics and experts, as well as relevant material published in mainstream sources.

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Please refer to the talk page for discussions regarding major projects. Click here and here for a list of recent changes to Soviet-related pages.

Achieve better categorization of Soviet-related articles
Get more Soviet-related articles to GA and FA status
Get reliable sources were needed on any socialist related article
Create a "Soviet Reliable Sources" page similar to this one or this one.
Fill in Portal:Soviet Union.
Expand Soviet-related stubs through translation of Russian and Ukrainian language Wikipedia counterparts.
Write all the redlinks on this list and this list.

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Field Marshall Keitel signs German surrender terms in Berlin 8 May 1945 - Restoration
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Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender, officially ending the Second World War
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Moscow Elektrozavodskaya metro station asv2018-09
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Raising a flag over the Reichstag - Restoration
Russian Imperial Family 1913
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Yuri Gagarin (1961) - Restoration
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Yuri Gagarin (1961) - Restoration (2020-03-09)
Alexei Leonov (2020-03-18)
Field Marshall Keitel signs German surrender terms in Berlin 8 May 1945 - Restoration (2020-05-08)
RUS-2016-Murmansk-Icebreaker Lenin 01 (2020-06-08)
Moscow Elektrozavodskaya metro station asv2018-09 (2022-02-26)
Russian Imperial Family 1913 (2022-07-17)
Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender, officially ending the Second World War (2022-09-02)
2020-09-16 165855 Soviet submarine B-515 (2023-04-18)
Prokofieff (i.e. Prokofiev) LCCN2014708419 Crop 2 (2023-07-25)
Raising a flag over the Reichstag - Restoration (2025-05-02)

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Soviet Union articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	5	10	13			30
FL	3	2	3	3			11
FM					16		16
A	2	1	5	13			21
GA	12	18	37	133		15	215
B	40	99	239	708		172	1,258
C	73	194	425	1,405		406	2,503
Start	45	238	1,028	5,216		1,047	7,574
Stub	1	16	295	5,639		840	6,791
List	7	28	69	365	4	199	672
Category					5,316		5,316
Disambig					32		32
File					945		945
Portal					33		33
Project					21		21
Redirect	1		1	25	746		773
Template					448		448
NA					1		1
Other					26		26
Assessed	186	601	2,112	13,520	7,588	2,679	26,686
Unassessed				2		201	203
Total	186	601	2,112	13,522	7,588	2,880	26,889
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 92,853			Ω = 5.05

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15 March 2026

diffhist m Great Purge 02:02 0 Nespinal92 talk contribs (→Totalitarian School: added missing period at end of sentence)
diffhist m Soviet Union 00:43 +1 ARCtrooper5555 talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Soviet Union 00:37 −95 Sneakysasquatchfan talk contribs (22.4 of 55 million square kilometers qualifies as ‘much’. Other tags valid though.) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Alexander Litvinenko 00:02 +23 MarcusTraianus talk contribs (Photo.) Tag: Manual revert

14 March 2026

diffhist Republics of the Soviet Union 23:31 −743 Grillofrances talk contribs (→Union Republics of the Soviet Union: Population density) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 22:17 +42 GeorgeMHall talk contribs
diffhist Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich) 22:03 +28 CurryTime7-24 talk contribs (→top: Grammar.) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
diffhist Justinas Lagunavičius 21:27 +651 Pofka talk contribs
diffhist Stepas Butautas 21:22 +1,216 Pofka talk contribs
diffhist Kaliningrad 20:36 −152 Nakonana talk contribs (→Soviet Union: Removing image of Kalinin statue which is located in Stavropol (not Kaliningrad) and was built in 1954 (not 1959)) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
diffhist Kaliningrad Oblast 20:33 −126 Nakonana talk contribs (→Soviet annexation: Removing image of Kalinin statue which is located in Stavropol (not Kaliningrad) and was built in 1954 (not 1959)) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
diffhist Sakhalin 20:19 −20 Declangi talk contribs (Undid revision 1339518958 by Saprissa40 (talk) No flags in Infobox for physical geographic articles, per MOS:INFOBOXFLAG) Tag: Undo
diffhist m Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich) 20:04 +3 SimonéDW talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Vladimir Lenin 19:58 +7 TheSilksongPikmin talk contribs
diffhist Vladimir Lenin 19:58 +10 TheSilksongPikmin talk contribs (→References)
diffhist Alfred Schnittke 19:49 +464 SpookiePuppy talk contribs (→Career: Adding sentence about studying orchestration with Nikolai Rakov. Adding citation with quote.) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Kaliningrad 19:44 −7 ~2026-16165-35 talk (Restored previous short description)
diffhist Bard (Soviet Union) 19:42 +37 Altenmann talk contribs
diffhist Anna German 19:38 −32 Sc2353 talk contribs (−Category:Deaths from cancer in Poland; ±Category:Deaths from bone cancer→Category:Deaths from bone cancer in Poland using HotCat)
diffhist Bard (Soviet Union) 19:36 −688 Altenmann talk contribs
diffhist Bard (Soviet Union) 19:35 +31 Altenmann talk contribs
diffhist Bard (Soviet Union) 19:34 0 Altenmann talk contribs (→Other songs)
diffhist Kaliningrad 19:32 +19 ~2026-16165-35 talk (→Museums)
diffhist Kaliningrad 19:30 +7 ~2026-16165-35 talk (→Architecture: I don't think that "many" is the right word here)
diffhist Kaliningrad 19:26 −86 ~2026-16165-35 talk (Removed unnecessary sentence)
diffhist Kaliningrad 19:23 −22 ~2026-16165-35 talk (Corrected a typo)
diffhist Kaliningrad 19:22 −281 ~2026-16165-35 talk (Took out this sentence as it had no sources)
diffhist Kaliningrad 19:11 −404 ~2026-16165-35 talk (Removed unsourced, incomplete and unnecessary summary)
diffhist Kaliningrad 19:06 −10 ~2026-16165-35 talk (Restored Duchy of Prussia and Teutonic Order to the historical affiliations infobox after their unexplained removal)
diffhist Mikoyan MiG-29 16:56 +462 Rajbarage talk contribs (-Formatting changes in Iraq section and clarified Claims section (Iraq)) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Hammer and sickle 16:52 −81 LWG talk contribs (Reverted good faith edits by Clarentius2011 (talk): Please provide a source to support the idea of it being a specifically atheistic symbol) Tags: Twinkle Undo
diffhist Mikoyan MiG-29 16:47 +36 Rajbarage talk contribs (- Added links) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Mikoyan MiG-29 16:45 +749 Rajbarage talk contribs (Undid previous inaccurate revision. You know who you are, this is very annoying, stop acting this way. Everything added is well cited and supported, what you are doing is simply in bad faith at this point. I find it telling that with every revision in this back and forth, you seem to be deleting less and less.) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Leon Trotsky 16:13 0 AndyTheGrump talk contribs (Undid revision 1343479561 by ~2026-16202-51 (talk) rvv) Tag: Undo
diffhist m Rashid Nezhmetdinov 16:08 +18 Awami li noli koliamir talk contribs (Liking) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Leon Trotsky 16:08 0 ~2026-16202-51 talk Tag: Reverted
diffhist Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran 15:31 −41 Shiloh1914 talk contribs Tag: Visual edit
diffhist m Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic 15:31 +1 Mindaur talk contribs (fix harvnb)
diffhist m Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations 15:07 0 Browk2512 talk contribs (fixed citations to correspond with correct author name) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
diffhist m Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations 15:03 +7 Browk2512 talk contribs (Fixed author name) Tag: Visual edit
diffhist Talk:Vano Muradeli 13:50 −18 ~2026-36481-5 talk (short article) Tag: Manual revert
diffhist m Talk:World War II 13:41 −158 B.J talk contribs (Reverted edits by ~2026-16255-28 (talk): using talk page as forum (HG) (3.4.14)) Tags: Huggle Rollback
diffhist Talk:World War II 13:41 +158 ~2026-16255-28 talk (→Who won ww2: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
diffhist Talk:Yevgeny Primakov 13:27 +255 GRANDGOD talk contribs (→A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion: Reply) Tag: Reply
diffhist Hammer and sickle 13:15 +41 Clarentius2011 talk contribs (→Variations) Tag: Reverted
diffhist Hammer and sickle 13:13 +14 Clarentius2011 talk contribs Tag: Reverted
diffhist Hammer and sickle 13:11 +26 Clarentius2011 talk contribs Tag: Reverted
diffhist Deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union 13:10 +8 Omnipaedista talk contribs Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
diffhist Degtyaryov machine gun 12:23 −35 Lightoil talk contribs (→Service use: Seems already expanded) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
diffhist Leonid Kantorovich 12:16 +4 CRau080 talk contribs (→Biography: adding bluelink to Road of Life) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

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