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Narrowing of your topic ban

I would support a narrowing of your topic ban to exclude all non-political topics. However, as you well know, in the Soviet Union everything was political. The problem I see is that politically motivated editors will try to add a political spin to every sentence about the Soviet Union, or even "Putinist" Russia. In fact I just happened to start working on a humorous "guide" on how it is done (see User:Petri Krohn/How to write about the Soviet Union).

I already proposed that pre-revolutionary Russia be excluded, but I may have misunderstood the present wording.

For some problem editors in the Eastern Europe topic area a minimal topic ban would inlude "any content (edit, section or article) that describes or tries to describe Soviet rule in the Baltics or Eastern Europe as illegal or oppressive or communism as immoral or criminal." I cannot recommend that this be applied to you, as you seem to have a conflict with modern Russia.

Could you propose some similar wording for consideration, that would clearly and minimally outline the scope of your conflicts.

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 01:12, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

I do not have any "conflict with modern Russia". To the contrary, I love Russian history and culture. Why else I would be editing in this area? Unfortunately, this history was very tragic, and it must be objectively described. I think we both can agree on this. We do not have any disputes. I saw your edits in different areas and consider most of them very much reasonable. If my topic ban is lifted, we would not have any problems, I hope. And of course, you are very welcome to comment about my amendment request. Please do. The Russian Empire was never a part of my topic ban, and Shell made it very clear. As about the "scope of my conflicts" (as you tell), I currently do not have any conflicts with anyone at this site, you including, and I want to keep it this way in the future. I think you just need to calm down a little and think it through. Very best wishes, Biophys (talk) 01:43, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

I agree that it would be useless to limit the ban by allowing editing on the culture and science in the Soviet Union, because this system "politicizes everything spiritual and human". Biophys (talk) 02:57, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Another maxim that equally complicates the issue is that truth and thermonuclear weapons cannot co-exist.

This is what makes the historiography of the Cold War period so difficult. National security overruled everything. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 16:54, 22 November 2010 (UTC)