Great Patriotic War
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Russian Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́ (Velíkaja Otéčestvennaja vojná). The term was first used in 1844 to refer to the Russian resistance and victory over Napoleon's invasion, and was evoked again in 1912 during the centenary of the French defeat. In 1941, Pravda newspaper used it for the fight against the German invasion of the Soviet Union in order to motivate citizens to unite and fight.
Proper noun[edit]
- (historical, in Soviet or Russian contexts) the German-Soviet war (a portion of World War II fought between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945)
Translations[edit]
the war between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945
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