Talk:Walter Ulbricht

message: I completely agree with the below comment. The article is informal bordering on sensationalistic, and highly biased. The entire Anlauf-Lenck murders section appears to be lifted directly from the John Koehler "Stasi" book, which is fine but there's no reason to write it like a 10 cent drama or a cops n' robbers crime flick. Citing a historian who calls him a dictator is one thing, but the entire page is full of disparaging remarks. "Ulbricht uncritically followed Stalin..."  "Goods were of shoddy quality..." "Ulbricht remained loyal to Marxist-Leninist principles throughout his life, rarely able or willing to make compromises. Inflexible and unlikeable, a "widely-loathed Stalinist bureaucrat well known for his tactics denouncing rivals",[31] he was an unlikely figure to attract much public affection or admiration." Whereas the police captain shot is a sympathetic figure - a 'recently widowed man with three daughters". the Captain gasped, "Wiedersehen... Gruss..." ("So Long... Goodbye..."). (I'm deleting the section.) The article could easily be rewritten from the complete opposite to portray Ulbricht as a brave revolutionary fighting Nazi fascism and American imperialism, and would be just as misleading a caricature. 
This article is not written in a neutral style, it needs to look more like an encyclopedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.146.120.32 (talk) 20:22, August 29, 2007 (UTC) 
This article could really do with some expansion.  Ulbricht was head of the DDR for 22 years! He's a major historical figure and worthy of a much longer article -- compare the length of this one with the one on Erich Honecker -- Palthrow 06:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No -- the article follows the RS [reliable sources] which treat him the same way, both in English & German. The job of Wikipedia is to follow the RS.  A "bias" pr "POV" appears in Wiki when an editor does not follow the RS.  In Wiki rules. "neutral" means neutral between the RS, and NOT neutral toward the biographee.  Rjensen (talk) 06:23, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite Completely

message: Did he fight in the Spanish Civil War? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.110.221.182 (talk) 22:03, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Interestingly enough, although the German Wikipedia entry does not say that he did, the Encyclopedia Britannica does say this. Further investigation reveals that, although he was awarded the Hans Beimler Medal for service in the war, he actually made only a very small contribution - one aggrieved veteran described this as "he never had a gun, he only spoke on the radio" (Anti-Fascism and Memory in East Germany: Remembering the International Brigades, 1945-1989 By Josie McLellan, p67). It seems he was briefly a political commissar before being ordered home.Rbreen 09:31, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: Why do the gravestones of Ulbricht, Pieck and Grotewohl all look identical? Sca (talk) 16:03, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
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message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 06:28, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Walter Ulbricht Is an example of a major Communist leader  in the Lenin tradition Who devoted an enormous amount of his time and energy to issues of religion. Some people want the info box only to talk about positive religion, ignoring the importance of negative approaches to religion in world history. Rjensen (talk) 06:40, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]] 

message: This I must hear, but couldn't find any recordings of him.. what a shame. I must say, the inclusion of that sentence is rather a tease to readers if we can't find a way to hear it. It's not like he's of an era where audio recording wasn't possible. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 04:55, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
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