What's your problem with the 'Great Patriotic War'? I use this term intentionally all the time, because it represents the immense death toll the Russians had to endure the last time the West attacked the country in 1941-45.
We are talking about a number of around 25 million people killed on the Soviet side. You may go and search for a memorials (for the atrocities to the Russians on the eastern front) somewhere in Germany or allied axis countries (Romania, Hungary, Austria!, Spain!), just to recognize that there aren't any.
And I'm writing this as a German. The great killing on the eastern front is a black hole in Western history books. These are filled with "Band of Brothers", "Omaha Beach", "6. of June", "Battle of the Bulge"... But no one in the West really knows anything about e.g. the Siege of Leningrad with nearly a million civilian death (including relatives of Putin by the way).
People in the West really need to understand where Russians and Chinese people actually come from historically, the 'century of humiliation' absolutely is over.
We are talking about a number of around 25 million people killed on the Soviet side. You may go and search for a memorials (for the atrocities to the Russians on the eastern front) somewhere in Germany or allied axis countries (Romania, Hungary, Austria!, Spain!), just to recognize that there aren't any.
And I'm writing this as a German. The great killing on the eastern front is a black hole in Western history books. These are filled with "Band of Brothers", "Omaha Beach", "6. of June", "Battle of the Bulge"... But no one in the West really knows anything about e.g. the Siege of Leningrad with nearly a million civilian death (including relatives of Putin by the way).
People in the West really need to understand where Russians and Chinese people actually come from historically, the 'century of humiliation' absolutely is over.