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He was not corrupt. He just never was able fight against corruption. Most of the georigan politicians were either self acting or just never under his control, that's why he later decided to keep the chaos going on. His most effective branch was the military, which also was lead by corrupt officers.
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True. Of course, the problem with this idea is that you/we probably won't have time, and by next week everyone will have forgotten about Shevardnadze. The encyclopedia article will remain lop-sided. At least this is partially corrected by the most recent revision, which changes his principal
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I didn't feel comfortable with the reference to "George Bush I", even though it linked to G.H.W. Bush's page. They don't have the same middle name (so they're not Jr. and Sr.), and "the first" is not customary usage either now, or between John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
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Good point, however it does not justify removing information. When you have time, perhaps you would like to do some research in to his further history? I think many sources will be in languages other than English, however.
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It needs a lot more work on his earlier career - there is stuff out there in English. I will add to if I have time but nothing should be deleted.
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It's been quite widely reported, but the best article I found on the subject was in the Toronto Globe & Mail - see
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Almost half of this article concerns events in November 2003. This is not going to date well. -Rollo
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Excellent work. I defer to your clearly superior knowledge concerning what colour 'Fox' he was.
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I've rewritten the article to fix a few problems and add a lot more to the Soviet period. --
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Thank you - its a lot better and utterly unrecognisable from my little stub of a month ago!
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seems to suggest he began party activity in '46 but actually joined the CPSU in '48. --
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Definitely 1946, according to his official CPSU biography from the mid-1980s. --
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Well, unfortunetly that would sound POV, partisan and angry even if true.
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states that he joined the Communist Party in 1948; here we have 1946.
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