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I believe the designation in Russian is "The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". Then things get simplified for English-speaking audience titles ...
by ableal 8y ago
I believe the designation in Russian is "The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945".
Then things get simplified for English-speaking audience titles ...
- PeterisP 8y agoThere are terms that are both simple and not actively misleading (as much of that war happened in non-Russian USSR) - what's wrong with "Eastern front of WW2" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II) ?
- mLuby 8y agoWell, depends how far East you go… But generally yeah that makes sense. Or talk about the two governments: "Nazi-Soviet war"
- olavk 8y agoSaying "Russia" rather than "USSR" in this context is not really simplifying, it is more like distorting history. Like saying Prussia instead of Germany. "The Prussian-French war of 1940-1945"
- craftyguy 8y agoHow about the "Austria-Serbia war of 1914-1918"?
- orbital-decay 8y agoThe weirdest part of it is that it seems to be an academic article. A lot of people are lumping all USSR and even exUSSR nationalities into "Russians" after the Cold War era dehumanization, but this doesn't seem to be ignorance.
- gukov 8y agoNot sure why the "Otechestvennaya" part in "Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna" is usually translated as Patriotic while it actually means Fatherland.
- pyrale 8y agoPatriotic etymologically has the same meaning, and bears much more sense in the context.