Daniel, sir, let me ever so gently remind you that I was born in 1971 in
Moscow _USSR_ where I lived for the first 20 years of my life. So I am
kind of fully aware of The Great Patriotic War (where my maternal father
fell in the battle of Moscow in 1941 and my paternal father was wounded
having left this world in 1967 2 years before I was born). There is also
a Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon. The GPW was fought between
USSR and Nazi Germany. But since I mentioned USA it kind of made sense
to use the more broad term of WWII, which is also correct. In fact, both
terms (The Great Patriotic War and World War II are used freely in
Russia without any preference that I can imagine).
Boris
On 1/4/2011 6:11 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
In Russia, there is no such event as World War II. Is has always been
know there as The Great Patriotic War. The name they use makes clear
the emotional response that Russians of all ages and outlooks have to
that terrible war.
Dan
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