The Music of Destruction

tolerance•13 minutes ago

Whoever 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.

B1FF_PSUVM•about 3 hours ago

> a mirrored portrayal of Soviet society and WWII.

The Soviet Union did not have WWII. They had the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.

There is a difference there.

Mikhail_Edoshin•22 minutes ago

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.

keiferski•about 2 hours ago

The Soviet Union invaded and annexed half of Poland in 1939 - in partnership with Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland

stronglikedan•about 3 hours ago

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.

shermantanktop•about 2 hours ago

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.

applicative•about 1 hour ago

We should deferentially deny that the Soviet Union invaded Poland and Finland? I will try this when people mention Vietnam, Iraq etc.

t-3•about 2 hours ago

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.

worik•about 1 hour ago

> because everyone and everywhere was at war during that time.

No, that is incorrect

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