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	Great Patriotic War
		Some go so far as to suggest that the myth of this war has transcended the myth of 1917 as the most importance foundational and constitutive myth of the Soviet Union, both for the nation as a whole and even for (some of) its constituent parts.
		The Great Patriotic War may not only be a pivotal moment for the Soviet polity’s conception of itself, but also for the historiography of the Soviet Union, an historical problem in which old and new historiographies meet or perhaps collide.
		The Great Patriotic War may also be pivotal in the transformation of the Soviet "empire" with respect to the occupied lands of the west, in particular Germany.
	www.econ.uiuc.edu /~koenker/481patrioticwar.html (461 words)

	Russian Great Patriotic War, the Great Patriotic War in Russia on RussiansAbroad.com
		Russian Great Patriotic War, the Great Patriotic War in Russia on RussiansAbroad.com
		The Great Patriotic War, as the Soviet Union and then Russia have called that phase of World War II, thus began inauspiciously for the Soviet Union.
		To ensure the army's ability to fight the war, the Soviet authorities moved thousands of factories and their key personnel from the war zone to the interior of the country--often to Central Asia--where the plants began producing war matériel.
	www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_68.html (1004 words)

	World War II - CDI Russia Weekly #263
		To those of my children's generation, World War II is as buried in the annals of history as the Hundred Years' War, and the Battle of Stalingrad means about as much to them as the ancient Battle of Pharsalus.
		The Great Patriotic War -- the greatest shock in the young Soviet Union's history -- was, more importantly, the most profound ordeal in the history of each and every Soviet family.
		The war has ceased to be a unifying national idea that could be used to teach children to love their motherland.
	www.cdi.org /Russia/263-11.cfm (1188 words)

	Great Patriotic War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Great Patriotic War (Великая Отечественная Война, Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna in Russian) is used in Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union to describe the war of 1941 to 1945 between Nazi Germany and its Axis allies, on the one hand, and the Soviet Union, on the other hand, i.e.
		The term was coined following the Axis attack against the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 and was to mobilize the population to defend the motherland.
		The term war against aggression was used by the Soviet Union before the involvement of the United States and Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Patriotic_War (236 words)

	The Defence of the Achievements of Socialism in the Great Patriotic War
		The Defence of the Achievements of Socialism in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)
		Priceless relics of the war lie on the display stands and cases: Party and Komsomol membership cards pierced with shell-splinters; applications of soldiers and commanders in the Red Army for membership in Lenin's Party; newspapers published by underground district committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in territories temporarily occupied by the enemy.
		Models of weapons and military equipment from the time of the Great Patriotic War, a map-diagram of the “Victory of the Soviet People In the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", orders and medals of the USSR are also displayed in the hall.
	www.stel.ru /museum/lenin_in_russian_great_patriotic_war_years.htm (608 words)

	Russian History from the February Revolution to the Great Patriotic War
		Russian History from the February Revolution to the Great Patriotic War is a survey of the principal political, socioeconomic, intellectual and cultural developments from the fall of the Russian monarchy in 1917 to the unprovoked German invasion that brought the USSR into World War II.
		The previously unpublished state papers, memoirs, and correspondence shed new light on the dissatisfaction with Bolshevism at the close of the civil war, the attitude of the population toward the New Economic Policy of the 1920s, and the tragic suffering of the peasants during collectivization.
		Souzdaltsev, Igor Nikolaevich (1962–) Co-author of From the Great Patriotic War to the New Russia.
	xanedu.proquest.com /originalworks/danilov_04 (871 words)

	Understanding the Great Patriotic War - ExpressNews - University of Alberta
		The war on the Eastern Front, however, was on a different scale and signified different things to different participants.
		War losses in the Soviet Union are estimated at 25.6 million (higher in some sources), almost 50 per cent of total losses worldwide, and the Axis occupation of Belarus and Ukraine brought proportionally more deaths than for any other single region of occupation.
		For the Jews of Europe, the war was simply a quest for survival and one that barely succeeded.
	www.expressnews.ualberta.ca /article.cfm?id=6616 (831 words)

	THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR, 1941- 1945: Russian Navy Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Great Patriotic War is one of the greatest events in the world history.
		At various stages of the war both sides of the Soviet-German front engaged from 8 to 12,800,000 men, 84,000 to 163,000 artillery pieces and mortars, and from 5,700 to 20,000 armored vehicles.
		The key outcome of the Great Patriotic War is that the Soviet people and their armed forces withstood the extremely fierce and violent struggle, smashed Germany's mighty war machine and beat the nazi ideology, a spiritual basis for planning and waging annexation wars.
	www.strelna.ru /en/chronology_navy/238/1 (1123 words)

	Great Patriotic War
		War between the USSR and Germany during World War II.
		Stalin remained in Moscow and the Soviet forces, inspired to fight on by his patriotic speeches, launched a counter-offensive.
		Black and red recall the tunics worn by soldiers during the Napoleonic wars.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0029592.html (345 words)

	Progress in front aviation communications during the Great Patriotic War Military Thought - Find Articles
		Air war experience highlights the immense role of steady and uninterrupted communications, where C-and-C of air units, combined units and large strategic formations is concerned.
		Yet the war found front aviation signal units underequipped and undermanned, a state that was aggravated by considerable losses in the early period of the Great Patriotic War.
		The most significant factors that influenced progress in front aviation signals during the Great Patriotic War were primarily prewar organizational experience and views on the role and importance of communications current in the Soviet top command echelon.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JAP/is_2_14/ai_n15623017 (897 words)

	Great Patriotic War Museum 1941-1945 - Moscow (Russia)
		War is one of the most regrettable human activities.
		The state museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 is the part of the memorial complex at Poklonnaya Gora.
		The exposition is divided into three parts according to three periods of the War - from the perfidious fascist aggression in 1941 to the victory in 1945.
	users.skynet.be /rmypegww2/Pages/Moscow.htm (401 words)

	"The Myth of 'The Great Patriotic War'" by Dr. Roman Serbyn - WW2inColor Talk
		The terms "Great Patriotic War," "Liberation" and "Victory" appeared in the Communist party newspaper Pravda in the first days of the Germano-Soviet conflict, and were used as propaganda slogans until the war ended.
		Gradually, "the Great Patriotic War" acquired a new stereotyped image and this engineered vision of the war was passed to the Soviet people as their compulsory "collective memory." It constituted obligatory axioms for Soviet history books and became a focus for the annual celebrations during the work-free Victory Day.
		It is precisely this "liberation" by the Russians, that exposes the sham of the "patriotic war" and the hoax while begging the question of "liberation." To liberate is to set free.
	www.ww2incolor.com /forum/showthread.php?p=90949#post90949 (2611 words)

	On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the course of the war the Red Army was infused with new vital forces; it received replenishments of men and equipment; new reserve divisions came to its aid and the time came when the Red Army was able to assume the offensive on the main sectors of the vast front.
		Now the outcome of the war will be decided not by such a fortuitous element as surprise, but by permanently operating factors: stability of the rear, morale of the army, quantity and quality of divisions, equipment of the army and organizing ability of the commanding personnel of the army.
		GREAT BRITAIN AND THE U.S.A. It may now be regarded as beyond dispute that in the course of the war imposed upon the nations by Hitlerite Germany, a radical demarcation of forces and the formation of two opposite camps have taken place: the camp of the Italo-German coalition, and the camp of the Anglo-Soviet-American coalition.
	www.marx2mao.com /Stalin/GPW46.html (17743 words)

	The Voice of Russia ( THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN PHOTOS )
		We, descendants of that war generation, see it through the eyes of cameramen and photographers.
		During four years of the war hundreds upon hundreds of photos were made and three and a half million meters of film were shot.
		On the second day after the war was declared correspondents were at the front.
	www.vor.ru /55/Photo_Exhibition/Pic_eng.html (1215 words)

	Kiev and Kharkov, The Great Patriotic War in the Ukraine - Holts Tours
		The fall of Kiev was soon followed by that of Odessa and Kharkov thus opening the way for German Army Group South to head for the Crimea, the industrial area of the Don Basin and the oilfields of the Caucasus.
		Briefing on the Great Patriotic War in the Ukraine.
		It is the second largest museum in the former USSR devoted to Great Patriotic War.
	www.holts.co.uk /ht233.html (808 words)

	Feedback \| POBEDITELI — Soldiers of the Great War
		When I was teaching a necessarily US-centric version of "World War II", I always took some time to explain that it was the Soviets and the Great Patriotic War that truly did the heavy lifting in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
		There is no doubt Hitler and the Germans started this war and the German armies took away Soviet ground and reigned it cruel and with terror, but the Soviet record on the counter offensive is not clean either, an aspect of this war that should not be ignored.
		It is sad that all the veterans of this great war are dying..
	english.pobediteli.ru /feedback/index.html (1868 words)

	Victory in the Great Patriotic War day. - Indymedia Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		War culture is part of the fabric of our identities, we comemorate fighters, we idolise them, and raise bronze plaques to them.
		We have grown up on movies of the european war 1939-1945, and outside of the very few neutral states at that time in Europe, everyone counts an ancestor who was involved.
		The end of the war, is agreed between historians and power interests, no-one wishes to rock that particular boat yet.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=69625 (644 words)

	The Great Patriotic War - Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk - Holts Battlefield Tours
		The Great Patriotic War - Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk
		A second German offensive in the summer of 1942 saw great advances in the south terminating in the abortive drive to the Caucasus and the monumental battle for Stalingrad, the great turning point of the Second World War.
		One of the great attractions of this tour is the opportunity to interact with many Russian war veterans.
	www.holts.co.uk /ht209.html (868 words)

	The Soviet Union and the Great Patriotic War quiz -- free game
		The Soviet Union and the Great Patriotic War
		The massacre at Babi Yar in September of 1941 by German mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen) was the largest slaughter of Jews by these type of units in the Soviet Union.
		The alliance between Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union began to show signs of strain even before the end of the war.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=88587 (347 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| The Great Patriotic War: 55 years on
		"Victory in World War II and the creation of the military establishment was dangerous for the survival of the USSR," he told an assembled audience of war veterans, fellow historians and children from the Russian embassy school.
		Professor Oleg Rzheshevsky, head of the department of war history and geopolitics at the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow, says atrocities were committed on the Soviet side but on a far smaller scale.
		Hundreds of war films were made about the war in the Pacific, North Africa, Normandy and Italy but Hollywood edited out the Eastern Front, with as much skill as a Stalinist censor.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/744350.stm (966 words)

	Lessons of the Great Patriotic War, local wars and prospects of developing modern military science and military art ...
		Voices are already being heard accusing the USSR of "unleashing the war" and even maintaining that resistance to the Nazi onslaught was in vain and that the Western countries made a mistake siding with the Soviet Union.
		They maintain that the war waged by us was pointless and there was no victory at all, instead, there was a shameful war which we lost.
		In estimating the results of the war and losses one should keep in mind that the main battles of World War II were taking place along the Soviet-German front and fighting was especially relentless and fierce.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JAP/is_2_14/ai_n15622984 (962 words)

	Great Patriotic War
		Great Patriotic War depicts a Combine attack on a surprised section of Paneuropean front.
		Also he chooses and sets aside his "total war reinforcements" - five more armor, which enter as at the beginning of his fourth turn.
		To get all these assets working at maximum power, you want to fight a broad-fronted defensive war, with both howitzers firing every turn and reinforcements only traveling a few hexes before they can find an enemy to engage.
	tank.osaurus.us /great-patriotic-war.html (980 words)

	The Great Patriotic War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this country, World War II is know as "The Great Patriotic War." It lasted from 1941 until 1945, and millions of people were killed.
		This war elapsed between the USSR and Germany, and Germans were guilty of starting it.
		The economy of the country was damaged, and years were needed for restoration; but the economic damage was nothing compared to the damage to morale.
	www.iearn.org /hgp/aeti/aeti-1998-no-frames/great-patriotic-war.htm (157 words)

	The Great Patriotic War
		That designation, with its connotations of medieval cruelty, signaled Hitler's commitment to a war of unparalleled ferocity made all the more devastating when combined with Nazi racist ideology which demanded nothing less than the extermination or the enslavement of the Slav Untermensch.
		In this nightmarish scenario, a war of annihilation, Vernichtungs-kampf, was coupled with that of racial extermination, Rassenkampf, directed against the "Jew-Bolshevik enemy" in particular and the Slav subhuman in general.
		The Nazis' relentless portrayal of the enemy's inhumanity generated a barbarous response, drenching the war in the east...
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1995/05/05/029.html (247 words)

	Soviet Uniforms of the Great Patriotic War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The army used two official patterns of uniform during the Great Patriotic War.
		Its goal was to use every possible reminder of traditional Russian patriotism to inspire the people to defend their homeland.
		Towards the end of the war new Victory Parade uniforms would be issued as well.
	www.russianwarrior.com /1941_uni_index.htm (201 words)

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