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The term Patriotic War refers to the Russian resistance to the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon I, which became known as the Patriotic War of 1812.
The Great Patriotic War. This module discusses World War II, or as it was called in the Soviet Union Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voina. Your students can learn Russian while learning about this most important time in Russian history. This module includes video and audio components.
Jun 26, 2012 · That war, the “War on the Eastern Front,” is known in the Soviet Union and Russia as Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna—the “Great Patriotic War.” It lasted for 1,418 days, and between twenty-six and twenty-seven million Soviet people, mostly civilians, died.
The War in Russia. On 22 June 1941, Hitler’s war against the USSR began. It was fought mainly on Soviet territory, with tens of millions of soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of aircrafts, tanks and guns on each side. It was the greatest land war of all time.
The Great Patriotic War of the U.S.S.R. Known in Russian as "Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna", it lasted from the commencement of "Operation Barbarossa" on June 22nd 1941 to the fall of Berlin...
The Withdrawal of Army Group Centre to Belorussia up to the Spring of 1944. What took place on Army Group Centre’s front in the winter months of 1943-4 was one of the bloodiest episodes of the Second World War.
Velikaia Otechestvennaia Voina Sovetskogo Soiuza, 1941–1945: Kratkaia Istoriia [The Great Fatherland War of the Soviet Union, 1941–1945: A Concise History]. Edited by P. I. Pospelov et al. [Institut Marksizma-Leninizma pri TsK KPSS, Otdel Istorii Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny.] (Moscow: Voennoe Izdatel'stvo Ministerstva Oborony SSSR. 1965. Pp. 617)
