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During the Soviet era, many statues depicting the Mother Motherland were built, most to commemorate the Great Patriotic War.These include: The Motherland Calls (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт, tr. Rodina-mat' zovyot), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad
the Nigerians as fatherland; the Oromo as Biyya Abaa; the Pakistanis as Vatan (madar-e-watan means motherland. Not fatherland) the Somali as Dhulka Abaa, land of the father; the Thais as pituphum (ปิตุภูมิ), the word is adapted from Sanskrit; the Tibetans as ཕ་ཡུལ (pha yul) the Welsh as Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, 'the ancient ...
The term Patriotic War refers to the Russian resistance to the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon I, which became known as the Patriotic War of 1812.In Russian, the term отечественная война originally referred to a war on one's own territory (otechestvo means "the fatherland"), as opposed to a campaign abroad (заграничная война), [3] and later was ...
The Motherland Calls (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт!, romanised: Rodina-mat' zovyot! ) is a colossal neoclassicist and socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd , Russia.
The term rodina (Russian: родина) means "motherland". [10] It is one of three words in the Russian language that express the concept of "native land". Otechestvo (отечество) and оtchizna (oтчизна) both translate into English as "fatherland" and "relate to the country in which one is a citizen".
Peruvian Motherland, El Perú Libre: Vicuña Philippines: La Madre Filipinas, Juan dela Cruz: Philippine Carabao Poland: Polonia: White eagle Portugal: Zé Povinho, Efígie da República, Guardian Angel of Portugal: Rooster of Barcelos Rhodesia: Cecil Rhodes: Sable antelope, Zimbabwe Bird Romania: România: Lynx Russia: Mother Russia, General ...
Fatherland – All Russia (FAR) was a political bloc that existed in Russia from 1998 to 2002.. It was formed from the movement Fatherland, chaired by the Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, and the movement All Russia, chaired by regional Presidents of the Republics of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, of Bashkortostan, Murtaza Rakhimov, of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, and the Governor of St. Petersburg ...
Officially, as the name suggests, the holiday celebrates people who are serving or were serving the Russian Armed Forces or the Soviet Armed Forces (both men and women, both military and civilian personnel), but unofficially, nationally it has also come to include the celebration of men as a whole, and to act as a counterpart of International ...