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This user recognizes the Palestinian right of return.^‡

This user is a social democrat.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Socialism.

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WikiProject Soviet Union.

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WikiProject Yugoslavia.

This user helped promote 10 featured lists on Wikipedia.

This user has helped promote 57 good articles on Wikipedia.

My area of expertise and interest include one-party state politics, ideology, institutionalization of political power, history and authoritarian movements in general. My best work; Communist Party of China, Hafez al-Assad, Michel Aflaq, Workers' Party of Korea, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and Ideology of the Communist Party of China.

Barnstars

	The Good Article Barnstar
	For your contributions to bring 6th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea to Good Article status. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Midnightblueowl (talk) 00:16, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

For all your efforts on Hafez al-Assad--keep up the good work! -- Khazar2 (talk) 15:15, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

	The Good Article Barnstar
	For your contributions to bring 1966 Syrian coup d'état to Good Article status. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Midnightblueowl (talk) 13:05, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

For bringing the 1963 Syrian coup d'état to GA, with an exceptional encyclopedic value. Thank you! Yazan (talk) 06:22, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

	The Good Article Barnstar
	Thanks Trust Is All You Need for helping to promote Babrak Karmal to Good Article status. Please accept this little sign of appreciation and goodwill from me, because you deserve it. Keep it up, and give someone a pat on the back today. --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 07:13, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For your great work on Tim Henman! :) GoP _T ^C _N 16:53, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	For correctly identifying and tenaciously working to eliminate the sneaky network of hoax Soviet "election" pages. Молодец! Carrite (talk) 04:49, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

	Syrian Barnstar of National Merit
	For your invaluable effort in adding quality content to articles relating to Baathism, including Zaki al-Arsuzi and Michel Aflaq. These are not easy subjects to tackle in a neutral and reasoned manner, especially at a time when emotions are all over the place. Thank you! FA next? ;) - Yazan (talk) 12:07, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	For improving quality of some articles by adding images. Wusten fuchs 15:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For your continued efforts at improving such a wide range of important articles, which have made Wikipedia a much better place, and kept all of us over at the GOCE plenty busy. Please, do keep up the good work! Bobnorwal (talk) 18:30, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For the scope and quality of your work in the area of the USSR-related articles. GreyHood ^Talk 01:10, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

	The Workers' Barnstar
	This user has shown great editing skills in improving articles related to Communism and Socialism. Spongie555 (talk) 05:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

	North Korean Fashion Watch Barnstar
	The Ministry of Fun awards you the North Korean Fashion Watch Barnstar for your continuing efforts leading the masses to improve Wikimedia by adding reliable and poignant text in North Korean articles, such as Juche. Geraldshields11 (talk) 14:11, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Featured Lists contributions

This user helped promote Mikhail Youzhny career statistics to featured list status.

This user helped promote First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union to featured list status.

This user helped promote List of heads of state of the Soviet Union to featured list status.

This user helped promote Premier of the Soviet Union to featured list status.

This user helped promote List of leaders of the Soviet Union to featured list status.

This user helped promote Bryan Adams discography to featured list status.

This user helped promote General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam to featured list status.

This user helped promote Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam to featured list status.

This user helped promote General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to featured list status.

This user helped promote List of members of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1960s to featured list status.

(Some of my) Good Article contributions

This user helped promote Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to good article status.

This user helped promote Michel Aflaq to good article status.

This user helped promote Nur Muhammad Taraki to good article status.

This user helped promote Hafizullah Amin to good article status.

This user helped promote History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982) to good article status.

This user helped promote Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev to good article status.

This user helped promote Nikolai Ryzhkov to good article status.

This user helped promote Valentin Pavlov to good article status.

This user helped promote Mikhail Suslov to good article status.

This user helped promote Andrei Kirilenko (politician) to good article status.

This user helped promote Nikolai Podgorny to good article status.

This user helped promote Fyodor Kulakov to good article status.

This user helped promote Death and funeral of Leonid Brezhnev to good article status.

This user helped promote Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Soviet Union) to good article status.

This user helped promote Nikolai Tikhonov to good article status.

This user helped promote Vyacheslav Molotov to good article status.

This user helped promote Transport in the Soviet Union to good article status.

This user helped promote Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union) to good article status.

This user helped promote Gennady Yanayev to good article status.

This user helped promote Ministry of Finance (Soviet Union) to good article status.

This user helped promote Alexei Kosygin to good article status.

This user helped promote Leonid Brezhnev to good article status.

This user helped promote Ivar Hippe to good article status.

This user helped promote Socialist Left Party (Norway) to good article status.

This user helped promote Politics of Vietnam to good article status.

This user helped promote Babrak Karmal to good article status.

This user helped promote Prime Minister of Vietnam to good article status.

This user helped promote 1963 Syrian coup d'état to good article status.

This user helped promote 1966 Syrian coup d'état to good article status.

This user helped promote 10th CPV National Congress to good article status.

This user helped promote Le Duan to good article status.

This user helped promote 6th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea to good article status.

This user helped promote 6th CPV National Congress to good article status.

In the News contributions

This user has successfully nominated or updated Gennady Yanayev articles featured in the In The News section on the Main Page.

Did you Know? contributions

This user has written or expanded Ba'athism articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Marino Murillo articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Lev Voronin articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Nikolai Ryzhkov articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Valentin Pavlov articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Ivan Silayev articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982) articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Collective leadership in the Soviet Union articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded 1973 Soviet economic reform articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Death and funeral of Leonid Brezhnev articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Jon Hippe articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Ivar Hippe articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Erling Folkvord articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded 1963 Syrian coup d'état articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded 1966 Syrian coup d'état articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user has written or expanded Primary stage of socialism articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

Refs

https://en.rian.ru/business/20110202/162419049.html
Aflaq quotes
List of Central Committee, Secretariat and Politburo members
YES!!!!!!
The Party Discipline Inspection in China: Its Evolving Trajectory and Embedded Dilemmas
The Dual Nature of Anti-corruption Agencies in China
Interesting!
China's Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation
Training the Party: Party Adaptation and Elite Training in Reform-era China
Lineages of the Absolutist State