Talk:Arnold Meri

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[edit] Great Patriotic War vs World War II

To those of you who are engaged in an edit war over nomenclature, I have the following questions:

• Is the Great Patriotic War something completely separate from WWII, making it wrong or misleading to use the latter term?
• Wikipedia articles are supposed to written for a general audience. Are readers helped significantly in their understanding if the term Great Patriotic War is used instead of the more general WWII?
• Isn't the term WWII a bit more NPOV than Great Patriotic War? (GPW to me has some rather one-sided, jingoistic connotations of Stalin's USSR single-handedly saving the world from fascism, with the accompanying claims of perpetual moral high ground for the USSR/Russia thereafter.)

I am interested in hearing responses from both sides, so that perhaps a consensus can be reached. — Zalktis 08:52, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Well Arnold Meri himself calls it WWII, see his quote on the article page. Martintg 09:20, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

In the quotation, Meri does not mention which side he took himself. If he joined the Red Army in 1940 (as said in the article), he voluntarily joined the pro-Hitler coalition. The term GPW was invented just to hide uneasy facts like this one. Lebatsnok (talk) 14:06, 27 May 2008 (UTC)