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Russi-German war huh, as if the Uzbeks and Khazaks were not affected and effective in repelling Nazis, Germans, Italians, Romanians and Croatians among more, as
by antocv 8y ago
Russi-German war huh, as if the Uzbeks and Khazaks were not affected and effective in repelling Nazis, Germans, Italians, Romanians and Croatians among more, as if this was a national war and not ideological?
- baxtr 8y agoA suggestion from your side instead of a rant would be helpful. Maybe Russo-Khazaks-Uzbeks-German-Italian-Romanians-Croatians war?!
- LoSboccacc 8y agoI think "Eastern Front in WWII" is the editor-friendly name, even if it's pointless navel gazing.
- baxtr 8y agoThanks for me teaching me “navel gazing”, had to look that up :) About your suggestion: I’d associate the Asian theatre with that...
- AndrewOMartin 8y agoWhere of course "Asian theatre" is entirely unambiguous ;)
- arethuza 8y agoWhy - I'm pretty sure the Eastern Front was entirely in Europe?
- vesinisa 8y agoNo, that is the Pacific Theatre. Eastern Front in WWII unambiguously refers to the European theatre of the Axis-Soviet conflict in Western post-war study. The problem with that term is of course that from the Soviet/Russian perspective, the enemy was coming from the West, so they refer to the European theatre as the Great Patriotic War - a rather loaded and mostly unheard of term in the West. So academia has had to come up with new rather obscure neutral terminology like the German-Soviet Conflict or Russo-German War.
- lmm 8y ago"Eastern Front" is pretty widely understood I would think, perhaps because there wasn't so much of a single "front" in the pacific theatre? (except for the second Sino-Japanese war)
- irishsultan 8y agoBut wouldn't the eastern front in WWII not be in East Asia? In WWI it makes sense to use the Eastern front when talking about the German/Austro-Hungarian - Russian front, but in WWII that's quite euro-centric.
- yorwba 8y agoWWI also had fighting in East Asia, e.g. Japan taking Qingdao and various Pacific islands from Germany.
- irishsultan 8y agoUnless I'm mistaken that's not really a front that was active for long, unlike the front between Germany/A-H and Russia.
- badpun 8y ago"Soviet" instead of "Russian".