Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10335519
The first textbook for the new subject, called The Russian Army in Defence of the Fatherland, has been produced by leading Russian education publisher Enlightenment. Among its authors are two senior figures who work for the defence ministry and Kremlin newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
Its 368 pages are filled with stories describing the “heroic achievements of Russian soldiers” from the 13th Century to the present day.
Russians don’t really use motherland. Rodina, which means birth-land, is translated that way because there’s no simple English term to convey that