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Citations in opening sentence do not regard its contents

The term "dictatorship of the proletariat", and even the term "dictatorship", do not appear in the first two citations in the article. The opening sentence, giving a definition, should probably have citations that lead to the definition of the term. The 9th citation is supposed to contain the given definition of the term, so it should probably be used in the opening sentence instead. NeedsCorrection (talk) 01:13, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad you agree, I got here from "Democratic Centralism" and I get this bad feeling like the articles were intentionally written to make people think that "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" is somehow different than democracy. Reading through the article it almost feels like the intent is to confuse someone and make them believe that Socialism, Communism, and McCarthyism are all the same things; At least that is how someone on Quora used the word.

That is how I got here, from a poorly written question based loosely on reading the first paragraph of "Democratic Centralism" and focusing on the word "Dictatorship". Rootstak (talk) 16:23, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Incident in Baku" / Baku Commissars

The article states that the commissars were killed by the British. However, when one reads the linked Wikipedia article on the killing of the Baku Commissars, it discusses British involvement in a more nuanced and oblique way, citing one historian who says that the relevant British officer did not attempt to stop the killing. 2.108.129.238 (talk) 20:11, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]