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Editors e Cigarettes After Sex in concerto a Taranto per Medimex 2019, foto di Annita Fanizza per www.rockon.it
Ullstein 2000 / Taschenbuch-Reihe
Science Fiction Stories #30
ANTHOLOGY
> Christopher Anvil / Im Falle einer Falle • [Pandora's Planet • 7] (trans. of Trap 1969)
> Andre Norton / Planet des bösen Zaubers
• [Solar Queen • 3] (trans. of Voodoo Planet 1959)
Cover: John Schoenherr (variant of The Tomorrow People 1962)
Editor: Walter Spiegl
Ullstein Verlag / Deutschland 1973
ex libris MTP
I won't pretend to have taken any photos in Daytona this past week, as most of my contacts have figured out that I injured my back and couldn't fly, walk, swim or drive to Florida. However, Jim drove down ahead of my expected arrival, carrying the vast majority of my camera equipment with him. I must admit he did a fine job of capturing some great moments, as the family's Chief Photographer for the 2016 Speed Week at Daytona. Now, as Editor in Chief, I have the task of sorting, tagging and editing the multitude of photos he returned with. I will indeed, give full credit where due....he made me proud:)
The Great Patriotic War (Russian: Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́, romanized: Velikaja Otečestvennaja vojna) is a term used in Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet Union to describe the conflict fought during the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 along the many fronts of the Eastern Front of World War II, primarily between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. For some legal purposes, this period may be extended to 11 May 1945 to include the end of the Prague offensive.
History
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), and later was reinterpreted as a war for the fatherland, i.e. a defensive war for one's homeland. Sometimes the Patriotic War of 1812 was also referred to as the Great Patriotic War (Великая отечественная война); the phrase first appeared in 1844 and became popular on the eve of the centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812.
After 1914, the phrase was applied to World War I. It was the name of a special war-time appendix to the magazine Theater and Life (Театр и жизнь) in Saint Petersburg, and referred to the Eastern Front of World War I, where Russia fought against the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The phrases Second Patriotic War (Вторая отечественная война) and Great World Patriotic War (Великая всемирная отечественная война) were also used during World War I in Russia.
The term Great Patriotic War re-appeared in the official newspaper of the CPSU, Pravda, on 23 June 1941, just a day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. It was found in the title of "The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet People" (Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna Sovetskogo Naroda), a long article by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, a member of Pravda editors' collegium. The phrase was intended to motivate the population to defend the Soviet fatherland and to expel the invader, and a reference to the Patriotic War of 1812 was seen as a great morale booster. During the Soviet period, historians engaged in huge distortions to make history fit with Communist ideology, with Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov and Prince Pyotr Bagration transformed into peasant generals, Alexander I alternatively ignored or vilified, and the war becoming a massive "People's War" fought by the ordinary people of Russia with almost no involvement on the part of the government. The invasion by Germany was called the Great Patriotic War by the Soviet government to evoke comparisons with the victory by Tsar Alexander I over Napoleon's invading army.
The term Отечественная война (Patriotic War or Fatherland War) was officially recognized by establishment of the Order of the Patriotic War on 20 May 1942, awarded for heroic deeds.
The term is not generally used outside the former Soviet Union, and the closest term is the Eastern Front of World War II (1941–1945). Neither term covers the initial phase of World War II in Eastern Europe, during which the USSR, then still in a non-aggression pact with Germany, invaded eastern Poland (1939), the Baltic states (1940), Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940) and Finland (1939–1940). The term also does not cover the Soviet–Japanese War (1945) nor the Battles of Khalkhin Gol (1939).
In Russia and some other post-Soviet countries, the term is given great significance; it is accepted as a representation of the most important part of World War II. Until 2014, Uzbekistan was the only nation in the Commonwealth of Independent States that had not recognized the term, referring to it as World War II on the state holiday - the Day of Remembrance and Honour.
U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Ken Gross hosts a discussion at his residence for Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake and editors of Tajikistan's major newspapers to learn about the state of media freedom in Tajikistan on April 12, 2011, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]