The Music of Destruction
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The Music of Destruction
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What's the difference? They were involved in what is colloquially known as WWII. They just refer to their specific part differently amongst themselves, but they certainly did have WWII.
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It's called a world war in english because everyone and everywhere was at war during that time. Pretty much every group has a name for it in their own language.
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What's the difference? They were involved in what is colloquially known as WWII. They just refer to their specific part differently amongst themselves, but they certainly did have WWII.
I believe the offense is that here, on an English language website with a mostly American and Western European audience, the term used was insufficiently deferential to how Russians would refer to it in Russian.
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The Soviet Union invaded and annexed half of Poland in 1939 - in partnership with Germany.
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What's the difference? They were involved in what is colloquially known as WWII. They just refer to their specific part differently amongst themselves, but they certainly did have WWII.
I believe the offense is that here, on an English language website with a mostly American and Western European audience, the term used was insufficiently deferential to how Russians would refer to it in Russian.
We should deferentially deny that the Soviet Union invaded Poland and Finland? I will try this when people mention Vietnam, Iraq etc.
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We used both terms, the WW term meant the overall event and the other one was for the Soviet part that started June 22, 1941 and ended in 1945, first in Germany, the main victory, the in Far East in the war with Japan. The term itself is taken from to the war of 1812 with Napoleon; that one was The Patriotic War. The Finnish war has its own name. The Poland operation is not counted as a part of the war.
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#10Whoever did the typography for this website went bananas. The pull quotes and block quotes are real pleasing to look at.
Somewhere I think I have a copy of Grossman's A Writer at War.