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Template:User support minorities Iran

Per your request, I have moved the userbox to User:Constanz/User support minorities Iran. I agree that the expansion of speedy deletion criteria has been most unfortunate. If you want me to restore more of your userboxes, please make a request on my user page. - Mike Rosoft 21:57, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help. --Constanz - Talk 05:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Userboxes: A New Proposal

Hey, I've noticed that you've been active on the Userbox deletion page, either strongly FOR or AGAINST the use of the new T2 for deleting userboxes. I have noticed that most of the community is strong in their opinions on this issue; for that reason, I created my own proposal which attempts to create a middle ground for the two groups, and finally get this debate settled once and for all. I welcome your input into the proposal, as well as your (non-binding) vote on the straw poll. Thanks! // ^The True _Sora 01:31, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

No idea about the mao picture since I cant see the picture, maybe it got removed. (Deng 09:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC))[reply]

Collectivisation in the USSR

I am once again reverting your addition to Collectivisation in the USSR. First and foremost, the description of the Holodomor and the Ukraine are described separately below. Second, your usage of the word genocide is POV. Please discuss on the Talk Page before adding it again. -- TheMightyQuill 14:19, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Icebreaker

It sounds like you're more familiar with the book than I; could you go through the sections you readded and rephrase them to make it clear that they are discussing Suvorov's claims? As it is, they read like a commentary by the article's authors. --Robth^Talk 13:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Estonia

Please warn me when it happens again. It seems now to be quiet on the article. Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 16:45, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Non-English books are listed because we've cited these (Viktor Suvorov)

--Constanz - Talk 07:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you're not exactly correct: cited books are listed in "Reference", and in the "List of books and articles of other authors" there are entries for those which were not necessarily mentioned in the article. I myself placed a non-English (Polish) book on that list, but only because of an English review of it exists and is accessible for English readers. --Barbatus 14:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Nicaragua

I do not know as much about Nicaragua, as I should. In my view the Sandinista movement was co-opted by the communists as so many previous revolutions. Strangely it would appear that in this country corruption was a force for democracy, as Ortega and his friends made an exchange of "la pi~nata" property for free elections, and now they are allies of Aleman and his corrupt right wing buddies. However, I worry about the coming elections, and the emergence of what Senator Lugar calls pseudo democracies [1]. which now, given recent past history of turning into real democracies, are under far tighter control. El Jigue 6-9-06

Constanz you have a lot of work to do, You might start with William Walker to get historic perspective, I believe a Cuban patriot I think it was Goicuria fought with him. Will send references later El Jigue 6-9-06

Fair use images

Hi! I notice that you seem to have some "fair use" images on your user page. That's not quite kosher under current rules, you may want to look into that :) Regards, Haukur 23:40, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PBKNL

Could you have a look at the following "Kõige aktiivsemalt tegutses pärast Oktoobrirevolutsiooni Tallinna SDNÜ. Detsembris 1917 andis ta välja oma ajakirja "Noor Sotsialist" esimene nr. Teine nr. valmis küll 1918.a. jaanuaris ent ei jõudnud enam lugejateni. Tallinna SDNÜ initsiatiivil kutsuti 17. veebruaril 1918 Tallinna kokku kõigi Eestis tegutsevate sotsiaaldemokraatlike noorteühingute kongress, kus pidi loodama keskne üleeestiline noorteühing. 20 delegaati esindasid rohkem kui 2000 liiget. Kongressil puhkes äge diskussioon Narva anarhistlike delegaatidega, kes ei nõustunud sellega, et loodav ülemaaline organisatsioon võtab oma tegevuse alguseks bolševistliku programmi. Kui see aga häälteenamusega siiski vastu võeti, lahkusid Narva noorte esindajad kongressilt. Uus organisatsioon võttis oma nimeks Põhja-Balti Kommunistlik Noorsoo Liit (PBKNL). Seoses saksa vägede sissetungiga ei saanud PBKNL tegutsema hakatagi. Suur osa ühingu liikmeist läks Punaarmeesse ning võitlesid juba Venemaal sealse kodusõja rinnetel."

My Estonian grammar is severly failing me;

Was the PBKNL formed by the Narva group or their opponents?
What happened with it at the time of German intervention? --Soman 12:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kongressil puhkes äge diskussioon Narva anarhistlike delegaatidega, kes ei nõustunud sellega, et loodav ülemaaline organisatsioon võtab oma tegevuse alguseks bolševistliku programmi. Kui see aga häälteenamusega siiski vastu võeti, lahkusid Narva noorte esindajad kongressilt. Uus organisatsioon võttis oma nimeks Põhja-Balti Kommunistlik Noorsoo Liit (PBKNL). Seoses saksa vägede sissetungiga ei saanud PBKNL tegutsema hakatagi. Suur osa ühingu liikmeist läks Punaarmeesse ning võitlesid juba Venemaal sealse kodusõja rinnetel." in the congress a heated discussion with Narva anarchist delegates took place, the anarchists disagreed that the future all-country organisation take bolshevist programme as its basis. When this programme was adopted by majority of votes, the representatives of Narva youth left the congress. The new organisation took itself name Põhja-Balti Kommunistlik Noorsoo Liit (PBKNL). In connection with the invasion of German troops the PBKNL could not start its existance. A big share of its memebrs went to Red army and fought in Russia in civil war fronts.--Constanz - Talk 14:09, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You've got translation at my talk page. P.S. If you are a bit interested in certain parts of Estonian history, you better keep in mind that the monument you've chosen as your title image for Baltics is something like swastika to Jews. Your Baltic co-contributors may find it odd that their country collection is titled on your homepage by such a symbol instead of nice a independence memorial or tourist attraction! Constanz - Talk 15:53, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the translation. However, I think you misjudge the political context of the Guinea memorial. The 1970s was an extremly repressive period in Guinean history, in which entire ethnic groups were singled out as enemies of the state. The statue is erected not to far away from the city's main concentration camp (sort of an urban gulag). My intention of posting images at my userpage is not to glorify nor the opposite, but it is a arbitrary collection of images which each illustrate features of that country or its history. --Soman 08:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou

Thankyou for the Anti-Marxist userbox. Reaper7 20:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greatest thank to a creator is having one's creations used by the others!--Constanz - Talk 07:18, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal

Hi. I see that portal links are removed from many templates (one just now by you) so it must have been discussed already somewhere. Where can I find the reasons? Thanks. ActiveSelective 11:11, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just reverted. See history and explanation by User:172.--Constanz - Talk 11:41, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorbs

You added a section about the treatment of the Sorbs in the GDR. This section is desputed. Please have a look at the discussion page to specify your sources for that information. Thanks --Mandavi 16:27, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SuperDeng

Yep, Alex got it. Thanks for letting us know. --Woohookitty^(meow) 09:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You may be right about user BobShoe - I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps we should ask for a checkuser. DMorpheus 12:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's no doubt it is him. He left some garbage on my talk page, with the same misspellings Deng uses. DMorpheus 13:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Its all funny but sad. I don't understand how someone can do these things. I also don't understand what sanction has been applied, if any, to the superdeng account itself. I see the socks were blocked indefinitely. DMorpheus 14:11, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Journal of Slavic Military Studies

Thanks for the new reference. I will definitely get my hands on it. DMorpheus 19:53, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

World War2

I don't really have anything new. Sigitas 15:20, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Glantz

Thanks for providing the review. I have responded on the talk page of the COL Glantz article. All the best Andreas 20:38, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Help with translations

I'm currently working on a script intended to create short articles on political parties on a variety of wikipedias simultaneously. However, in order for the technique to work I need help with translations to various languages. For example I need help with Estonian. Thanks, --Soman 12:43, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am ready to help on Estonian politics (in case we exclude EKP and similar gangs).--Constanz - Talk 15:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Zhukov memoirs

Please remind me in which Suvorov's book Zhukov was quoted as having few times less tanks than Germans? In Shadow of victory or Take my words back? Sigitas 17:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Suvorov, Suicide, chapter 3: Если у немцев 3712 танков и это (если верить Жукову) в пять раз больше, чем у нас, тогда в Красной Армии было 742 танка. А если у немцев было танков в шесть раз больше, значит, в Красной Армии их было 618. Но что такое «и более раз»? Это как: в семь раз? Или в восемь? А может быть, в десять? Почему великий полководец говорит загадками? Почему мы должны гадать, сколько же у него было в подчинении сил? --Constanz - Talk 17:30, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Constanz we know so little of what is going on, now the emphasis seems to be on a support committee for Fidel Castro, rather than nominating Raul. This could, or could not mean, that Raul is now out and the Communist Party rules, or it could mean that the Cuban bigwigs are killing each other, or none of the above. What seems certain is that Fidel Castro is not in complete control, and may even be dead, or even recovered as is the present official line. Interesting and scary. The Raulites here in the US are defending him vigorously too vigorously perhaps....xe xe El Jigue 8-12-06

Gisela Elsner

Constanz, why do you think, Gisela Elsner should have left the Federal Republic of Germany to live in the DDR? She wanted the Bundesrepublik to be a different country, different to what it really was. So from her point of view the best she could do was staying here and change the society. That's what she tried to do by her writing. (To make that crystalclear: I disagreed with her in almost every respect and didn't even feel she was a good writer. But this was her country as well as mine.)--80.136.213.3 15:16, 15 August 2006 (UTC) user ulula, German wikipedia[reply]

Lieber Constanz, Du wirst dringend gebraucht bei unserer These. Heute abend geht es weiter, habe Dodo erklärt, warum seine Löschungen und sprachlichen Sinn-Entstellungen nicht korrekt sind, ein Kompromiß bahnt sich an. Bis dann, --172.179.52.132 12:43, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ich hoffe zeit dafür zu finden.Constanz - Talk 14:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]