Proper noun
the Great Patriotic War
(historical, in Soviet or Russian contexts) Eastern Front (a portion of World War II fought between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945).
GOMEL, 17 February (BelTA) – The memory of all villages of Gomel Oblast, which the Nazis destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, will be perpetuated in the memorial complex in the village of Ola in Svetlogorsk District. Source: Internet
But reverence for what’s called the Great Patriotic War has taken on increasingly political hues in the eight years since Putin returned to the presidency – and particularly since 2014, when Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. Source: Internet
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has addressed a letter today to Russian President Vladimir Putin, notifying that he will not be able to attend the events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War. Source: Internet
It mirrors the exposition of the State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War telling about the war history from the first battles of 1941 to the Victory in May 1945. Source: Internet
How could the Great Patriotic War in which the Soviet people (including many members of my own family) lost at least 25 million lives, have anything in common with the latest outbreak of the novel coronavirus? Source: Internet
MINSK, 7 May (BelTA) – Memory about the Great Patriotic War is sacred and is in the heart of every Belarusian, BelTA learned from Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Natalya Kochanova on 7 May. Source: Internet