Great Patriotic War

Etymology
. This term was first used in 1844 to refer to the Russian resistance and victory over Napoleon's invasion, and was evoked again in 1912 during the centenary of the French defeat. In 1941, the newspaper Pravda used the term for the defence against the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in order to motivate citizens to unite and fight.

Proper noun

 * 1)  the German-Soviet war a portion of World War II fought between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: الْحَرْب الْوَطَنِيَّة الْعُظْمَى
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: Böyük Vətən müharibəsi
 * Bashkir: Бөйөк Ватан һуғышы
 * Belarusian: Вялі́кая Айчы́нная вайна́
 * Bulgarian: Вели́ка Оте́чествена война́
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 衛國戰爭, 衞國戰爭//卫国战争
 * Czech: Velká vlastenecká válka
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: Suureks isamaasõjaks
 * French:
 * Georgian: დიდი სამამულო ომი
 * German: Großer Vaterländischer Krieg
 * Hindi: महान देशभक्तिपूर्ण युद्ध
 * Hungarian: Nagy Honvédő Háború
 * Italian: Grande Guerra Patriottica
 * Japanese: 大祖国戦争
 * Kazakh: Ұлы Отан соғысы
 * Korean: ^대조국전쟁(大祖國戰爭)
 * Kyrgyz: Улуу Ата-Мекендик согуш
 * Latvian: Lielais Tēvijas karš
 * Lithuanian: Didysis Tėvynės karas
 * Ossetian:
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish: wielka wojna ojczyźniana
 * Romanian: Marele Război Patriotic
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Вѐликӣ о̀таџбӣнскӣ ра̏т
 * Roman: Vèlikī òtadžbīnskī rȁt
 * Slovak: Veľká vlastenecká vojna
 * Spanish: Gran Guerra Patria, Gran Guerra Patriótica
 * Tajik: Ҷанги Бузурги Ватанӣ
 * Turkish: Büyük Yurtseverlik Savaşı
 * Ukrainian: Вели́ка Вітчизня́на війна́
 * Uzbek: Ulugʻ Vatan Urushi
 * Cyrillic: Улуғ Ватан Уруши