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stronglikedantoday at 1:43 AM1 replyview on HN

What's the difference? They were involved in what is colloquially known as WWII. They just refer to their specific part differently amongst themselves, but they certainly did have WWII.


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shermantanktoptoday at 3:06 AM

I believe the offense is that here, on an English language website with a mostly American and Western European audience, the term used was insufficiently deferential to how Russians would refer to it in Russian.

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