Deletion of List of authoritarian regimes supported by the Soviet Union or Russia

Comment: To state that "authoritarian" can be defined is true but useless; this article doesn't provide a |neutral definition.  As it is, this is a |polemic and is nothing but anti-Russian.  (Editors can be anti-Russian, but not in the voice of Wikipedia
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV||WP:POLEMIC)

Comment: Clearly tendentious , and even .  And, as said above, the author/compiler has a clear agenda and violates .  Gotta go
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR||WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS||WP:NPOV)

Comment: I can't even begin to count the number of things wrong with the existence of such a list. Runs afoul of , , and really, 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR||WP:NPOV||WP:IJUSTDONTLIKEIT)

Comment: for the very vague inclusion criteria (the definition of "support" bothers me more than "authoritarian", but the nomination is correct that both terms are slippery things), which manage to combine everything from foreign aid in early 2018 to full-blown puppet governments of the Eastern Bloc three decades or more ago. The article cited by the editor above me is one which may well warrant attention here as well,  notwithstanding. Separation of one poorly-conceived list into its constituent parts, though, would only result in multiple poorly-conceived articles, which doesn't resolve the issues of the original and if anything multiplies them
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OTHERSTUFF)

Comment: I'm going to make the same point that I made for the US article: the concept of these countries supporting particular authoritarian regimes is clearly notable. It comes up in the news on more occasions than I care to count. That being said, the list is in definite need of  pruning. Each entry should have at least one source that within itself says both that the regime is/was authoritarian, ''and'' it is/was supported by the Russian Federation/Soviet Union. Sources sympathetic to either the regime or Russia/CCCP are not likely to suffice for this purpose. And all |citations consisting of links to other articles should be replaced with references to the actual citations supporting the claim, if they exist
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:SYNTH||WP:CIRCULAR)