abstract:The term Great Patriotic War ( Velíkaya Otéchestvennaya voyná; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; , ; ) is used in Russia and some former republics of the Soviet Union to describe the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 in the many fronts of the eastern campaign of World War II between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with its allies.
The onlysurvivingsonofaLeningrad factoryworker, hewas bornafter what the Russianscall the GreatPatrioticWar, in which they lost more than 26 million people.
Those were the same hopes of another generation of Americans and Russians -- the generation that stood together as allies in the Second World War - the GreatPatrioticWar in which the Russian people suffered and sacrificed so much.