Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chekism
First, as a neologism, it is about as old as soviet. The "-ism" should not be intrepreted as some ideology, but more like the suffix in "hooliganism" or "vandalism". Maybe chekist mentality would be a better title. It is about how generations under the shadow of all-powerful secret police has corrupted the Russian social fabric, and as such as much about the Russian Mafia and the oligarchs as the siloviks, the FSB, the KGB, the MVD, the OGPU and the Cheka, which is but the oldest manifestation of that secret police. Or oldet soviet manifestation, if you count in the Okhranka. The article is poor and would need some expanding in scope as well as some more encyclopedic writing style, but that's no reason for throwing it away. If the article about the Great Purge says that Jews were behind it or gives |wp:undue weight to critisicing Stalin, ''you don't delete, you edit
— User:Victor, 14:16, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:UNDUE (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)