Mother Russia
Proper noun
Meaning
Mother Russia
English Wikipedia has an article on:Mother RussiaWikipedia
A national personification of Russia as a woman, appearing in patriotic posters, statues, etc.
Examples
I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
You know, I never planned to leave. I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. You know, I played their game, pretending, of course. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB... Horrifying.
In a 2012 column titled "History Never Quite Ends", Hanson wrote: "From the czars to the Soviet Communists to Vladimir Putin’s cronies, there is something about constitutional government and liberal rule that bothers Mother Russia.
I suspect the Dalai Lama did not want him to report that in the regional battle with geostrategic dimensions we were also against Mother Russia, which was on Turkey’s side.
People often refer to Mother Russia as a personification of the Russian nation.