Sorry Boris. I did not make that comment for your benefit, or to correct you. It was something I didn't realize until we visited Russia several years ago, and I think it is an important insight into the deep significance that WW II has for Russians.
Many of us Americans view the Russians as paranoid, mostly because we fail to recognize the many times that Russia has been invaded from Western Europe (not to ignore the more successful and longer-lasting invasion from the East). Dan -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
