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From: "tednik" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] Russian medal
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 21:59:07 -0500
References: <002301c3ed10$97b70700$7c2ac018@TedBurke> <004101c3ed1d$ba8022a0$e7cf7ad5@oemcomputer>


Quite right, Brian. I was sloppily translating "patriotic" (OTEChESTVENNIi)
and (OTEChESTVO) "fatherland" which have roots in OTETs - father. No
excuse. I shall stand in a corner with my dunce cap firmly affixed.

Neither way, however, does the medal mention Arctic Convoys.


Ted, Ottawa


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cave" <>
To: "tednik" <>; <>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Mar] Russian medal


> Ted wrote, "the inscription on this Russian commemorative medal is "40th
> anniversary of victory in the Great Fatherland War."
>
> Hi Ted,
>
> Nit picking I expect, but wasn't it the Germans who talked of the
> 'Fatherland' - the Soviet phrase for what we call the Second World War is
> "the Great Patriotic War 1941-45"
>
> Brian
>
>


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